Voicestick - doesn't seem to work all that well

mrbarlow · **Voicestick - doesn't seem to work all that well -** 26-12-2006, 12:21

After reading about it here, I signed up for Voicestick as it looked like a good service and I thought it would be helpful to use as a call through for when I visit the USA next year.

I've made a few test calls/forwarding and whilst it seems to work ok for UK landline & mobiles, it hasn't seemed to work for anything else.

I've tried to call telephone numbers in Estonia & Mexico (both landline & cellular) and never managed to get connected. Sometimes I'm given a message that the request "cannot be processed" (or words to such effect) other times there's just long silence before it hangs up.

Admittedly, I only signed up for the "next-to-nothing" account and paid only $5 in so it's hardly a financial catastrophe for me, but it's a little disappointing as it looked a good solution. Looks like I'll have to go the calling-card route after all...

I'd be interested to hear from other voicestick users to hear how reliable you've found it...

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mrbarlow (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 51 Join Date: 17 Dec 2006 Location: Cardiff, Wales Country:	Voicestick - doesn't seem to work all that well - 26-12-2006, 12:21 After reading about it here, I signed up for Voicestick as it looked like a good service and I thought it would be helpful to use as a call through for when I visit the USA next year. I've made a few test calls/forwarding and whilst it seems to work ok for UK landline & mobiles, it hasn't seemed to work for anything else. I've tried to call telephone numbers in Estonia & Mexico (both landline & cellular) and never managed to get connected. Sometimes I'm given a message that the request "cannot be processed" (or words to such effect) other times there's just long silence before it hangs up. Admittedly, I only signed up for the "next-to-nothing" account and paid only $5 in so it's hardly a financial catastrophe for me, but it's a little disappointing as it looked a good solution. Looks like I'll have to go the calling-card route after all... I'd be interested to hear from other voicestick users to hear how reliable you've found it...