VOIP provider
 

Who's good if I want a UK-terminated (i.e. +44 number) VOIP account to use with a wired hardware SIP phone? I know historically Gradwell were the chaps but they seem to have moved on from single number service and are now b2b only.

Recommendations much appreciated...

Currently looking at these guys

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/numberpeople.co.uk

For an individual? Voipfone are somewhat eccentric but mostly seem to work, although they will close your account and take whatever credit you have left in if you don't use it. Sipgate are trying to move upmarket and have upped their prices considerably but are worth considering. Both will probably want you to confirm a UK residential address for 999 regulation reasons.

Andrews and Arnold offer VOIP for £1.20+VAT/mo Andrews and Arnold VOIP Information, plus between £12 and £60 to buy a number if you don't have one already

That seemed quite cheap to me so I'm wondering if that's only if you're already with them as a broadband supplier - but it doesn't seem so from reading their web page. If you decide to give them a try let us know how you get on.

Used these guys years ago and they were very good then. If anything, their offering has gotten even better

https://didlogic.com/

+1 for Voipfone. Stellar service for the five years since I had the BT number ported and cheap as chips, too. When we moved abroad for four years I switched to an app on each of my and my wife's smartphones and paid the small premium for each to be treated as an extension; an incoming call rings both phones and wheover gets there first stops the other one ringing. If neither answers and a message is left, it is emailed to us. Outgoing calls are cheap globally, and to the UK remained free (included) as the internet is used to connect to the Voipfone servers so it doesn't matter where you are. You always appear to be in the UK.

It works so well that now back in the UK, we haven't reverted to a landline. Our UK 'geographical' home phone number remains on our mobile phones. Yes, I know there is a small emergency risk in not having a phoneline powered from the exchange, but with two handsets and three network service providers, we take our chance.

I have been using Vonage for many years. They supply a box that plugs into your broadband router at one end and a standard UK landline phone at the other. The service has been excellent. In our case they do need to know your geographical point but they can offer you a dialing code that is elsewhere in the UK, ie as I was using for business they offered me a London number to add a bit of prestige to things. We are Reading based and use 0118 dial code. Local outgoing calls don't need the dial code. When we are at another location in North Yorkshire I take the box with us and thus I have my normal number. I just need to remember to add dialing codes to any numbers that are not in Reading. It does confuse the folk you ring though, you seem to be calling from Reading and then you say see you in a few minutes and they expect you to take 5 hours to drive there and you walk through the door after 10 mins...........

Vonage probably aren't the cheapest judging by the other suggestions..... I think I am paying 10 ish UKP per month but it is a business expense............

Rans6...............