Help with options

[Mephisto]

Originally Posted by andy

For longer calls from a German mobile, it would be worth looking at options like flat rate per call or per month to landlines, then use a callthrough access

Hello Andy,
can you explain a little how the callthrough access works?

Is there perhaps a way where I can get a land line in Germany, my contact in Canada calls that land line (for a small cost of say 1c/minute or so to him since he'll be using a calling card), and the call gets routed somehow from the German land line to my German cell phone? Or, alternatively, I call the German land line from my German cell phone (let's assume I have a plan which allows me to call land lines for free), and then that call gets routed to Canada to my receipient there? Would that be possible somehow, and if yes, how?

Cheers,
Pawel

[andy]

Originally Posted by Mephisto

Hello Andy,
can you explain a little how the callthrough access works?

If it's an ordinary landline access, then it's effectively the same thing as a calling card.

You could use VoIP providers to do the call forwarding you describe, if you can find tariffs you like. But you'd need to check if the VoIP-in numbers would still be reachable and at the same tariffs as other landlines. I don't see it working out much cheaper though

My only point really was about the German mobile networks having some options that aren't per minute for every minute of the call. Vodafone sent me a message about CallYa-OpenEnd, ; I think has Stan mentioned something similar on T-mobile, or there are Flat monthly tariffs on congstar or simyo

[Mephisto]

Super Urgent - If someone can help me out with this I would be hugely appreciative!

I have a new contract sim card from O2. It says that I can call German landlines for free (Festnetz) (I pay a flat rate for this service). Is there any possible reason why I cannot use DialNow http://www.dialnow.com/en/index.html to call Canada using this mobile number? That is, I sign up with Dialnow, then dial a German landline number they provide (they have one listed as 03031190252 which I'm assuming is a land line), dial my contact number in Canada, and talk for basically nothing? Is this too good to be true or what?

Thank you all very much for your coming replies,
Cheers,
Pawel

[Motel75]

Originally Posted by Mephisto

Super Urgent - If someone can help me out with this I would be hugely appreciative!

I have a new contract sim card from O2. It says that I can call German landlines for free (Festnetz) (I pay a flat rate for this service). Is there any possible reason why I cannot use DialNow http://www.dialnow.com/en/index.html to call Canada using this mobile number? That is, I sign up with Dialnow, then dial a German landline number they provide (they have one listed as 03031190252 which I'm assuming is a land line), dial my contact number in Canada, and talk for basically nothing? Is this too good to be true or what?

Thank you all very much for your coming replies,
Cheers,
Pawel

Should work fine. 030 is a Berlin landline. Tip: You can test it right now if you want, call the access number from Canada (011 49 30...) and see if it works.

[Mephisto]

Originally Posted by Motel75

Should work fine. 030 is a Berlin landline. Tip: You can test it right now if you want, call the access number from Canada (011 49 30...) and see if it works.

You're the man Motel! Thanks!

Cheers,
Pawel