Graeme wrote:
The article is disingenuous at best, showing a VoIP box with a phone on
one side and router on the other, but no mention of how or where the
router is connected. Presumably the article author thinks that only a
traditional copper connection is a landline, which I would dispute.

The site is advertising VOIP providers, so it's not terribly surprising
they're plugging them as 'one neat trick' landline providers 'don't want you
to know about'.

However there is an element of truth in that POTS phone call costs have
entered something of a death spiral. From September, if you're calling out
of bundle on BT, for instance, it's a 23p call setup fee and 15p/minute.
If you want to avoid these with a monthly bundle, it's £9.99 on top of line
rental.

A VOIP provider's fee of say 2p/min with no setup fee is way more sane by
comparison. (for the record, wholesale for calling 01/02/03 is about
0.1p/min). As more people who actually make phone calls flee to VOIP
providers, BT is left trying to squeeze less and less out of their remaining
POTS customers.

Theo