Saunalahti Voip

[Mikie]

Man I seem to posting a bunch of questions this week.

I was looking online and saw that Saunalahti has a Voip service that has free calls to any Saunalahti mobile phone. It also allows for free forwarding to Saunalahti phones. As I and my sig. other have Saunalahti, this intrigued me. Whenever I call via Skype from outside the county, I have to pay $0.20/minute to call a mobile phone. If I were to call the included Voip number and have it forwarded for free to our mobile phones, it would only cost $0.02/minute. Significant savings. The service is apparently free as you only pay for calls outside the Saunalahti network.

Has anybody used this? Any experiences with this? I plan on getting this when I return to Finland in a couple of weeks to try it out. I'll post my experiences here. But $0.18/minute saving on calls for me is a big savings. I am out of the country a lot and call home regularly.

http://saunalahti.fi/nettipuhelin/

[Upphew]

+10e for the data package. If you already have that...

[maxxfi]

I am using that Nettipuhelin service since a couple of years.
Phone quality is definitely ok (for a voice communication)
and I like to have a dial-in number for free, and without monthly payments.

My family calls me from abroad to that number (09-) with no problem whatsoever.
When calling, I have a VoIP phone with a customized dial plan so that if the
call is inside Finland, it uses Nettipuhelin, if it calls abroad, it uses one of the
cheap european VoIP carriers.

[Mikie]

Excellent Maxxfi, thanks. Basically the same as I plan on using it for. Will give it a go in a few weeks.

[GREAKLY]

Is Saunalahti/Elisa currently blocking VoIP? I have "Internet only" SIM card from Elisa/Saunalahti. Recently I tried to use it with my VoIP client/app. None of the calls went through (I tried a few different numbers). Then I got connected to a local WiFi instead (was staying in a cottage near Tampere) and all the sudden all the same calls went through.

Did anybody else have the same problem with Elisa/Saunalahti? If so, is there any way around it? I have Huawei 5372 mobile wifi 4G router.

[GREAKLY]

Update: Viber call went through. So, apparently, not all but some VoIP clients do not work/are blocked on Saunalahti/Elisa.