PAYG VoIP providers

[Contreras]

I'm looking for a UK VoIP provider with no ongoing monthly fee.

That is other than Voipfone, who I already use. Voipfone are fine but I would like to have an extra outgoing caller ID, and if I'm going to have more than one SIP account then I figured it would be sensible to have these with different providers from an availability/redundancy perspective.

I might also see if Voipfone allow signup to multiple single-user PAYG accounts as opposed to paying for the multi-user virtual PBX option which I don't need.

The only other providers I can find so far are sipgate and DrayTEL.

Are there any others to consider?

[garethevans1986]

We' use 2 x SIP trunks from SIPgate into a virtual Elastics box.

Been running since around Dec 2011. No problems to date.

Gareth

[Pondlife]

What's wrong with Skype?

[tractor]

..

What's wrong with Skype?

exactly what I was going to ask.

[Contreras]

What's wrong with Skype?

- Call quality is unacceptably tulip*
- Outgoing caller ID doesn't always work
- They don't offer SIP accounts
- More expensive than vanilla VoIP/SIP
- Non-software solution requires custom hardware

* You can get away with Skype-to-Skype as then both parties are aware and readily accept the limitations, but for business phone calls it falls too far short of being a serious contender imho.

I do use Skype, even paid for an "online number", but I now realise this was a mistake (see above) and am looking to port the number to one of the VoIP providers.