VOIP phone

[PereUbu]

Am thinking of getting an IP phone via NTT (and ditching my now worthless landline) - anyone had experience with using this? What's the call quality like?

[imlost]

Am thinking of getting an IP phone via NTT (and ditching my now worthless landline) - anyone had experience with using this? What's the call quality like?

One word. Perfect.

[trip_hop]

One word. Perfect.

And another word - economical....


.......sounds better than "cheap"

[bland]

Am thinking of getting an IP phone via NTT (and ditching my now worthless landline) - anyone had experience with using this? What's the call quality like?

VoIP works well in Japan.

I'd encourage anyone considering VoIP to go with an "open system", such as VoXaLot, so that you can use several VoIP providers, and ENUM lookups, etc, and not get locked into a particular provider's proprietary system.
http://www.voxalot.com

The benefit of the open system is that people can call my IP Phone for free via the Internet, regardless of which ISP in which country they're using (which means that my friends and family overseas can call my IP Phone for free - this is not possible with the "IP Phone" services bundled with Japanese ISPs.).

In conjunction with VoXaLot, I'm using Pennytel for their 8c untimed calls to landline phones in Japan (among other countries).
http://www.pennytel.com


If you'd like a Japanese 050 number, Fusion Communications has a free (except for call charges) trial going on at the moment. You can use their "Phone P" service from any ISP. I think this is the only 050-number service currently offered in Japan that is not tied to a particular ISP.
http://phonep.fusioncom.co.jp

[PereUbu]

Thanks all, a lot of good options there. Since I use Skype for international calls I was concerned that IP phones would be like that all the time (ie sometimes OK, sometimes awful).

On first glance, I thought GOL's fusion phone works out a bit more expensive than the NTT one but if its free... Also, looks like NTT let you keep your old landline number (so they should ). Will take a look at the independents also.

[RyanKumi]

If your interested in calling back and forth to your home country.
You can always do what I did if you already have internet.
Get someone to sign up for you for a VOIP in your home country and get them to send you a box. I pay like $25us and have unlimited US and Canada calls and they can call me as if they were calling next door. But be warned, when I first got it my mother called me everyday.