VOIP via Mobile Broadband

[RANDLOVER]

Just to let people know that even though it is not necessarily recommended, it is possible to get Voice Over Internet Protocol or Internet Telephony via mobile, (or wireless) broadband a.k.a WAN Wide Area Network, so my Telstra Home Phone bill has gone from $50 a month to $15 a month with my VOIP provider. I had to buy a 4G modem router, which most people probably have already and an analog telephone to router converter costing about $80 each. I first set it up on a pre-paid sim as my old mobile modem was so old it had the big sim card not even the micro or nano sim which the new router uses.

Today I put the new post-paid nano card in the router and it is up and running. I also transferred my Telstra number to the VOIP provider so can still get calls from people/organisations I gave my number to decades ago.

The NBN which I had for the home phone. uses VOIP anyway so no big difference to me. It can do fax if you pay for a 2nd line but nowadays it is only really/rarely used by doctors, pharmacies, lawyers, and large institutions like banks, super funds, hospitals, etc. so I don't think I'll bother getting mine put on a second line.

[RANDLOVER]

I know many people don't bother with a home phone anymore but it was very useful the other night as we had a power failure so went for a drive in the countryside checking the web occasionally for updates at 19h30 it said they were restoring power gradually but hadn't done so to our street yet and the next update would be at 21h00, but I dialled the home phone and it rang thus confirm that we had power so we made our way home.

[RANDLOVER]

Hi Mods,

I judt noticed this should probably be in "Communications....", please move if you agree.

Thanks,
RL

[Tins]

VOIP is the only thing that works here, in line of sight to Melbourne's CBD:bat:. Biggest issue is power outages, and then the bloody NBN doesn't work either. I am in a bushfire area. What's the first thing to fail in a conflagration? You guessed it, the power. Can't really afford it, but I'm seriously considering the Starlink setup I posted yesterday in the Starlink thread. Just wondering what they are like as an ISP. Can't really be any worse than the half dozen I have tried in the past.