Yes, very valid points.
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Originally Posted by gkeeper
I use Piranha, Tru and Toggle (Toggle only in Toggle countries) and have compared prices with Onesimcard and Airbaliticard and the maths works out, that overall the Onesimcard and Airbaliticard are more expensive, not only for outgoing calls but especially for the caller. You mentioned calls to +372 numbers are $0.06, but only from certain VoIP providers, therefore all of my friends and family would have to sign up and download a sip client and no doubt pay a minimum top up when signing up, if they did not they would have to pay anything between £0.50 and £1.00 to call me on a +372 number.
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Not necessarily a sip client, it also offers callback, local access numbers, and also works with any sip enabled phone.
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Originally Posted by gkeeper
I personally have about 50 very important contacts from family to friends and business, and i do not think many would sign up and pay maybe £10.00 for top up only to ring me  . |
But I agree, a good option in your situation would be what we discussed earlier:
- open an account with anveo (cheap numbers) or callcentric (free US number and easier to use than anveo).
- forward the incoming calls on that number to your sip address (free)
- forward your sip provider to your phone (cost €0.005 to UK mobile, France mobile, etc... Free to US mobile, €0.07 to Estonia mobile) (with the betamax clones the forwarding setting is only available in the windows application. Once set it works for all incoming calls).
This way you give your contacts only 1 number, and you can change that forwarding to any SIM you are using at the time.
Even if you move to another SIM, people can reach you on the same number.