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ticex · 09-04-2006, 17:46

Hi everybody,

I've been away travelling the past weeks and haven't had much time to get online. Anyway, I just thought I'd share my extended roaming experiences with using the callkey sim in combination with voipfone callback. I've made/received over 9 hours of calls now and there was only 3 occasions it let me down. The rates via voipfone really do work out well - outgoing calls to UK landlines (for example) have been costing me 10p/min all in when triggered via the web callback, outgoing CID is shown as my office landline and it's all done by the second.

I've found this a really powerful setup, it has saved me a substantial amount and kept me in complete contact wherever I've been. All people have had to do is call my regular Edinburgh landline number (now on voipfone) and it has rang the phone on my desk in the office in Edinburgh, office in Brussels and the callkey mobile at the same time. If I'm in the office in either location I simply pick up the SIP phone and pay nothing but if I'm out I pickup the mobile and pay 9p/min. There have been a few issues on the occasional day where voipfone had problems with the routing provider to 07624 numbers but they were all fixed within 24 hours.

I've used the setup in UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Spain. Aside from the few hours out of the past months I noticed the voipfone routing problem the callkey card has only had 1 hiccup. In the Netherlands last weekend all received calls on the Sunday night were being dropped after 3-4 seconds no matter which network was selected. I sent an email to callkey and they replied within 45 mins at 1:30am on Sunday to apologise, said it was an isolated incident and would be rectified within 24 hours - impressive support!

I've made a couple of calls via callkey themselves and the sim application type callback system works fine on my Motorola V3 but not on my latest firmware Nokia 6230 - it just shows "call not allowed". However, my main interest was to use the previously disussed voipfone callback web trigger. I've had my wind sim card with the mega-no-limit in an Orange SPV I picked up for ?50 and I've found it really very simple to trigger callbacks in the mobile Internet Explorer, it's even easy enough to do while driving - although I'm not sanctioning such a dangerous effort in today's health and safety world :P

The thing I found really handy was by deactivating the voicemail on the callkey sim all calls I didn't answer through the voipfone PBX which rang to my mobile went back to voipfone free of charge and to their voicemail system. If somebody left a message it was then emailed to me directly (possibility of paid for SMS alerts on this) and my SPV retrieved it for little cost in combination with the WIND sim. I was then able to listen to the messages directly as a WAV within the SPV email client and even read the callers ID in the email body. This really has slashed costs - If I'd been using a standard mobile I'd have paid for the diversion, roaming costs and then the roaming per minute rate to hear the voicemail but with my way it costs next to nothing.

Anyway, to sum up I really am very very impressed with this setup as finally I can be in complete contact wherever I am in Europe for the same cost as if I'm back home in the UK. I'll test out the service for reliability over another month or so before I commit completely but these initial tests look good

Andy, have you been using it much? Any problems?

Thanks again for all the tips and advice on the forums - without all this I wouldn't have got this setup.

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ticex (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 67 Join Date: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Edinburgh & Brussels Country:	09-04-2006, 17:46 Hi everybody, I've been away travelling the past weeks and haven't had much time to get online. Anyway, I just thought I'd share my extended roaming experiences with using the callkey sim in combination with voipfone callback. I've made/received over 9 hours of calls now and there was only 3 occasions it let me down. The rates via voipfone really do work out well - outgoing calls to UK landlines (for example) have been costing me 10p/min all in when triggered via the web callback, outgoing CID is shown as my office landline and it's all done by the second. I've found this a really powerful setup, it has saved me a substantial amount and kept me in complete contact wherever I've been. All people have had to do is call my regular Edinburgh landline number (now on voipfone) and it has rang the phone on my desk in the office in Edinburgh, office in Brussels and the callkey mobile at the same time. If I'm in the office in either location I simply pick up the SIP phone and pay nothing but if I'm out I pickup the mobile and pay 9p/min. There have been a few issues on the occasional day where voipfone had problems with the routing provider to 07624 numbers but they were all fixed within 24 hours. I've used the setup in UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Spain. Aside from the few hours out of the past months I noticed the voipfone routing problem the callkey card has only had 1 hiccup. In the Netherlands last weekend all received calls on the Sunday night were being dropped after 3-4 seconds no matter which network was selected. I sent an email to callkey and they replied within 45 mins at 1:30am on Sunday to apologise, said it was an isolated incident and would be rectified within 24 hours - impressive support! I've made a couple of calls via callkey themselves and the sim application type callback system works fine on my Motorola V3 but not on my latest firmware Nokia 6230 - it just shows "call not allowed". However, my main interest was to use the previously disussed voipfone callback web trigger. I've had my wind sim card with the mega-no-limit in an Orange SPV I picked up for ?50 and I've found it really very simple to trigger callbacks in the mobile Internet Explorer, it's even easy enough to do while driving - although I'm not sanctioning such a dangerous effort in today's health and safety world :P The thing I found really handy was by deactivating the voicemail on the callkey sim all calls I didn't answer through the voipfone PBX which rang to my mobile went back to voipfone free of charge and to their voicemail system. If somebody left a message it was then emailed to me directly (possibility of paid for SMS alerts on this) and my SPV retrieved it for little cost in combination with the WIND sim. I was then able to listen to the messages directly as a WAV within the SPV email client and even read the callers ID in the email body. This really has slashed costs - If I'd been using a standard mobile I'd have paid for the diversion, roaming costs and then the roaming per minute rate to hear the voicemail but with my way it costs next to nothing. Anyway, to sum up I really am very very impressed with this setup as finally I can be in complete contact wherever I am in Europe for the same cost as if I'm back home in the UK. I'll test out the service for reliability over another month or so before I commit completely but these initial tests look good Andy, have you been using it much? Any problems? Thanks again for all the tips and advice on the forums - without all this I wouldn't have got this setup.