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Old Apr 14, 2012, 11:42 pm
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Brobbel
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Originally Posted by Xandrios
What are your impressions in regards to sounds quality, dropped calls and so on?
I'm using Fring and Skype these days, Fring being very cheap but having horrid sound quality to some destinations...and Skype offering good quality but at 3 times the price.

If the requirement is to topup with 50 euro, one could say:
- 1750 miles is worth ~17.50 euro
- That means ~35% discount
- As long as call rates are less than 35% higher than your regular VOIP trunk, you are making a profit from the offer.

A few destinations that I checked against the Skype and Fring rates, just FYI:

NL Stable - Foize: 0.03, Skype: 0.022, Fring: 0.012
NL Mobile - Foize: 0.08, Skype: 0.255, Fring: 0.084

FR Stable - Foize: 0.04, Skype: 0.022, Fring: 0.006
FR Mobile - Foize: 0.24, Skype: 0.194, Fring: 0.037

UK Stable - Foize: 0.03, Skype: 0.022, Fring: 0.007
UK Mobile - Foize: 0.26, Skype: 0.240, Fring: 0.056

Cheapest ones in bold. Notice that Foize is actually the cheapest for calling NL Mobile, at 8 cents a minute (incl. VAT). So for anybody using VOIP to call NL mobile, this could be a great offer
We are using Foize on a landline with CPS (10747), so quality is good. Only with one single number we sometimes have problems (a fax number at Curacao), we have to call directly, but that's the only problem I know off.

But we don't have experience with VOIP, and that was your question.
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