Help: Looking for cheap voice NZ -> UAE

petkow · **Help: Looking for cheap voice NZ -> UAE -** 13-03-2008, 16:37

Can anyone help me find the cheapest way of making long calls from NZ to UAE. I have some friends who need to call Dubai from NZ a lot, and the best I can suggest is voip at around US$0.2/min. However they do not have Broadband and VoIP is patchy on their dialup. They cannot seem to find any decent NZ phonecards to do this country. They have a landline and Vodafone NZ prepaid GSM.

Can any of the Kiwi's here suggest anything? Thanks so much in advance!

petkow · 13-03-2008, 16:42

Also... can any of you Kiwis or anyone suggest a good deal for Broadband in NZ? (or a good site for finding it). Maybe it will be best they get this hooked up for VoIP etc.

andy · 13-03-2008, 17:23

If they are long calls, try DialNow with this, and hope the offer gets extended, but it's almost the price you mentioned anyway. Or from a landline ...

http://www.vodafone.co.nz/specials-p...60-minutes.jsp

Stu · 08-04-2008, 12:36

I've rarely program the twenty US cents barrier and have generally not been happy with the results when I do. Do your friends call multiple people in Dubai or just one household.

At least in the Western Ex-Pat population in Dubai, broadband is readily available and voip on the other end might be a solution. If the friends live in the free trade zone, Du has not been very rigorous about enforcing the block on VOIP. Most systems work with only minor tinkering.

petkow · 08-04-2008, 17:58

They only call one number. I think VoIP was tried on the Dubai end but with little luck. I think they sometimes manage Skype to Skype but it is patchy! SkypeOut is a no-no! Betamax seems to be completely out of the question.

Though not part of the UAE, my experiences are with Bahrain. Betamax does not work there at all but on the other hand all Skype service including SkypeOut work well. I wonder if the 'tinkering' you mention will work for getting Betamax clients working in Bahrain!? Do you have any tips?

kiwisteve · **Nz Adsl -** 02-05-2008, 08:48

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	Help: Looking for cheap voice NZ -> UAE - 13-03-2008, 16:37 Can anyone help me find the cheapest way of making long calls from NZ to UAE. I have some friends who need to call Dubai from NZ a lot, and the best I can suggest is voip at around US$0.2/min. However they do not have Broadband and VoIP is patchy on their dialup. They cannot seem to find any decent NZ phonecards to do this country. They have a landline and Vodafone NZ prepaid GSM. Can any of the Kiwi's here suggest anything? Thanks so much in advance!

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	13-03-2008, 16:42 Also... can any of you Kiwis or anyone suggest a good deal for Broadband in NZ? (or a good site for finding it). Maybe it will be best they get this hooked up for VoIP etc.

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andy (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Prophet Posts: 2,128 Join Date: 10 Dec 2004 Country:	13-03-2008, 17:23 If they are long calls, try DialNow with this, and hope the offer gets extended, but it's almost the price you mentioned anyway. Or from a landline ... http://www.vodafone.co.nz/specials-p...60-minutes.jsp

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	08-04-2008, 12:36 I've rarely program the twenty US cents barrier and have generally not been happy with the results when I do. Do your friends call multiple people in Dubai or just one household. At least in the Western Ex-Pat population in Dubai, broadband is readily available and voip on the other end might be a solution. If the friends live in the free trade zone, Du has not been very rigorous about enforcing the block on VOIP. Most systems work with only minor tinkering.

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	08-04-2008, 17:58 They only call one number. I think VoIP was tried on the Dubai end but with little luck. I think they sometimes manage Skype to Skype but it is patchy! SkypeOut is a no-no! Betamax seems to be completely out of the question. Though not part of the UAE, my experiences are with Bahrain. Betamax does not work there at all but on the other hand all Skype service including SkypeOut work well. I wonder if the 'tinkering' you mention will work for getting Betamax clients working in Bahrain!? Do you have any tips?

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kiwisteve (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 526 Join Date: 14 Jan 2004 Location: Aotearoa / New Zealand Country:	Nz Adsl - 02-05-2008, 08:48 Xnet is very popular Broadband ( run by worldxchange ) Prepaid Sims Spark NZ, Skinny , 2 Degrees , Vodafone NZ and Australia, EE UK , Travel Sim , Plus Poland Phones: GSM: Nokia 5110 , 6110 , 6310i , UMTS - LG P970 ZTE R54 Galaxy Mini Samsung GTE3210 LTE 4G / 700Mhz Samsung J1 and J 2 LTE 4G / 1800 Vodafone 890N . Samsung Tablet CDMA: Nokia 6385 ( now dead ) TDMA / AMPS Nokia 6120 ( all dead ) SMS contact and Tests +64 20 4577475