Has anyone got any experience with this phone, anywhere that may do a better price, or recommendations for an alternative?
I want to get a phone that I can use with the cablecom landline and Voip. I was going to get one of the Tesco internet phone but the are never in stock. So I'm on the hunt, I've seen the Siemens C475ip online for £71.99, and I found them on toppriese for around chf 155.
I recently bought RTX DUALphone 3088 from Amazon.co.uk, it seems pretty good so far.
Looking forward to seeing my phone bill drop from 200chf a month to about 10chf. So should pay for itself pretty quick.
Skype are doing unlimted European calls to landlines for about £5 a month. You can get a UK phone number (0203) for something like £2 a month, which means friends in the UK can call you at a national rate.
If you have to call 0870, or 0845 numbers in the UK use web site saynoto0870.com , to discover the national phone number, meaning that you will not get charged for these numbers either.
This should mean that as long as you refrain from calling mobiles, your bill will be next to nothing.
Good luck - It will save you alot of cash in the long run, a credit crunch buster!!
I use Zultys for wired Ethernet connection to a router switch attached to Cablecom's Scientific Atlanta modem ( quite unlike my Linksys SPA 941 which was very challenging to set up but offers business like features and excellent call quality owing to codecs ) as well as wireless Topcom for Skype ( non-SIP requiring a PC ) which also does Swisscom Fixnet or Cablecom's Digital Phone.
For a totally wireless solution, I highly suggest using the Zyxel's V630 or any Wlan VOIP enabled mobile phone.
Wouldn't reccomend WLAN VOIP handsets for 2 reasons: 1) WiFi is TDD and not suited for voice, and 2) the 2.4Ghz wifi band is so crowded there's always interference on there.
"Regular" (DECT) VOIP handsets are FDD (ie: dedicated up/down streams) and are on a different frequency band than the crowded wifi (1800Mhz).
That said, I like Siemens and heard SNOM is also good. Siemens has some HD codecs that sound great (assuming the other end your calling also has a HD handset.)
Hi everybody,
I'm using a Siemens C470IP, it's a good phone. I think the Siemens C475IP is the same phone but the C475IP have a integrated answering machine.
Just a question about VOIP which opreator are you using ?
another vote for the C475IP - it can have up to six VoIP accounts and a retardo-old-fashioned connection too.
Anyone know how to make the fecker speak English on the "machine" though? Menu's are fine but some German woman keeps talking to me