Don't know what it costs to call within Australia, but using Diamondcard from the U.S. to Australia it is 3.6 cents per minute. See table below:
Tom P. On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 19:55 +1000, Roger wrote: > >> Hi all > >> I'm wondering about experiences in using Ekiga in Australia and what the > >> total costs of calls within Aus are please. > >> TIA > >> Roger > >> > >> > > Hello, Roger. > > > > I have Ekiga installed and setup, on Ubuntu 8.04, and have tested it > > with a webcam, for making video calls, and, that is all okay, but I > > don't know anyone else with Ekiga, for me to communicate with, to try it > > for live calls. > > > > I am with Optus, with ADSL quota of somewhere around 15GB per month. I > > notice that your email address shows that you are with Bigpond. > > > > Without knowing what your quota is, I have no idea as to whether you > > have the capacity for video calls (which was the main reason for me > > getting the webcam and Ekiga installed, for communicating with friends > > and relatives overseas). > > > > > From what I understand, if you use Ekiga to communicate with another > > person using Ekiga, across the Internet, using video calls, no charges > > apply (unless one party to the call, incurs charges for exceeding the > > bandwith quota). If I am wrong in that, perhaps someone from Ekiga, > > could correct me. > > > > -- > > Bret Busby > > Armadale > > West Australia > > .............. > > > Hi Bret > > I'm on a 12 gig plan but don't intend to use video, just voice. > You're right about calls to other Ekiga users, it's calls to skype users > that I want to know the costs of first hand from the people who do this. > Unfortunately the few that I need to talk to are windows, apple, skype > users. I'm Linux Fedora 11. > > On the Diamond card site it looks like they charge 19 cents per minute > for calls within Australia unless I'm reading it wrong, that's not cheap. > I'd love to be corrected on this. > > Roger > Welshpool > Victoria > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
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