reasonable telephone service back to USA

[dudesdynamos]

Has anyone found a reliable and reasonable telephone service that can be used from your flat back to the US? Thanks

[shri]

Try the rates at Zone 1511 ( zone1511.com )

[berryplucker]

PCCW 0060 seems fine to me. Base rate of HK$0.38 (US$0.05) per minute, but speciall offers on a regular basis bring it down to about half that. Quality is good. Unless you call a huge amount I'm not convinced it is worth the effort to continuously monitor prices to shave a few percent of that, particularly since the quality can be variable with other suppliers as well.

[Max]

How about the service that started it all?

Wharf T&T's IDD 007 service...the cheapest I've used for the US, anywhere from between 7 to 19 cents (HK$) per minute..

[shri]

>> Base rate of HK$0.38 (US$0.05) per minute,

Way too expensive. If you're a US resident who calls back home a lot or maintains extensive contacts with the US for business, you're better of getting a Vonage VoIP device or getting someone with a Vonage device to set you up with their softphone.

[hek]

5 cents a minute is too expensive??! Are you insane? Talk about wanting soething for free. You can't even call state to state in the US for that little.

[dwaindibbley]

0030 is cheaper than 0060, I think its about 3 or 4 US cents a minute. If thats too much, use skype (simply google skype), its 2US cents a minute to the USA. If you contact someone in the USA who has Internet access on skype its free. Quality is excellent, higher bandwidth than a normal phone, cool stuff!

[HKFella]

Never seen anything that low. How did you get that rate? Negotiate? Corporate?

[HKFella]

Interesting! Thanks for your reply.

[caribbeancoast]

try Siprano.com, its free to the US and Canada. Flat monthly fee of HK$88 comes with a US phone number too.