Re: SIPGate

["Warren" <warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers for the suggestions...
Turns out Sipgate do provide local city numbers but it turns out the check
where your ip
address is registered... local numbers are only available to UK residents
and I was trying
from work which has an IP registered in the USA

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <ukha@b...> wrote:
>
> On 08/12/2004 at 16:48 Patrick Lidstone wrote:
>
> >--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Warren" <warren@t...>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> I've been looking into signing up with SIPGate for VOIP as
they appear
> >> to offer geographic call numbers for the UK.
> >> However when you go to register, all they offer is National /
Local /
> >> Personal number...
> >>
> >> Has anyone managaed to get a 'normal' geograpic number for a
city??
> >>
> >
> >Yup, but from telappliant. (www.telappliant.com). They're a
reseller
> >for someone else, but I don't recall whom. Perhaps Andy knows?
> >
> >Patrick
> >
>
> Depends where you are, you could try http://www.gradwell.com/voip/ - my
advice is to
stay well away from personal numbers
>
> The good news for you is that Ofcom have given the go ahead for
geograpical number
allocation which is what would have been holding suppliers back from doing
properly.
>
> "The UK communications watchdog says it want to help build a
successful VoIP market
in Britain, but one tough decision still has to be taken Ofcom has begun to
lay out the
future for commercial voice over IP (VoIP) services in the UK. The
communications
regulator announced on Monday that Internet telephony service providers
will be able to
offer both geographic and non-geographic numbers to their customers.
Geographic
numbers will begin with 01 or 02, like today's existing fixed-line
telephone numbers. This
will allow consumers to shift onto a VoIP service but retain their existing
number, or
choose another that indicates where they are located. "
>
> (8th December 2004)
>
>
> Andy