Startel??
 

Hi,

With Betamax trying their hardest to lose my custom with their attitude to voxalot I have been looking for a non-Betamax provider.

I came across http://startel.pt/eng/index.html
They seem to have a similar business model to Betamax (i.e Euro 10 top up give you free calls, not sure for how long though)

Anyone know of them / used them?
Obviously sceptical to sign up and hand over my hard earned cash to just anyone!

StarTel free calls
 

Viewing the English page, the FAQ says that the free calls are limited to one minute.
http://startel.pt/eng/faq.html

See Items 1.6 and 1.7.

Not sure what they mean, because I thought I can only register my own number, not destination numbers, and obviously there is no VOIP path to a pure landline number (otherwise, I would call it directly).

Their rates are quite reasonable otherwise.

Tried to register yesterday, but did not receive a confirmation email yet.

I think, much like Betamax, that if you don't sign up for the Euro 10 'VIP' service then you only get 1 minute of free calls.

If you purchase the VIP service it doesn't say what the time limits are.

I registered no problem, email arrived instantly.
Signed up for the free service, haven't paid anything as yet.

At first I thought they only offered free calls to ENUM numbers - i.e. phone numbers that can be registered as VoIP numbers at e164.org, like the ones Sipgate give out. Then I saw the VIP section and now I'm not so sure. It sure looks like you get free calls. Someone must be daring enough to add credit - go on!! I just lost €10 on Betamax's new product JustVoip, which I now find out doesn't have SIP enabled!

On StarTel I can't find the host name anywhere. The pictures do not download no the XLite Configuration page. Is it just startel.pt?
Update: says it's registered now with startel.pt as host. Will now switch back to non-registration mode.

Did you say" I just lost €10 on Betamax's new product JustVoip, which I now find out doesn't have SIP enabled! "?????!!!
Ok, so i've lost my 10€ too...

I believe proxy is sip.startel.pt, host is startel.pt

Pics download in IE but not in Firefox. Had the same problem.

thanx kurun but (just a small off topic sorry for that:D ), someone has the justvoip trick to use SIP?
Thanx a lot

See the post I just put in other thread for this
http://forum.voxalot.com/showthread....ted=1#post7105

Martin, is there a way you can test if sip.startel.pt accepts calls from voxalot?

It seems I can make calls OK through Startel via Voxalot. Have been limited to 1 minute though so far as haven't added credit yet.