Tpad - A BrainTel Killer?

[WishfulThinker]

Guys,

I think this could be a BrainTel killer; what do you think?

You can get unlimited free incoming calls from all over Pakistan and 40 other countries. Folks in Pakistan can use their local gateway number to dial in your Tpad number. You can receive calls at PC (Tpad Sofphone) or any ATA and even forward it to your cell or any PSTN number. (If you configure it with SPA 3xxx, you can use VOIP-PSTN bridge for cheap or even free forwarding).

Outgoing charges for Pakistan are ~5 cents/min and the best thing is they charge @ PER SEC not PER MIN

Their support response is great. I got an email reply within 45 mins about how to configure ATA with Tpad. Following are the settings...

Proxy: sip.tpad.com
UserId: 1124142 (your 7 digit Tpad number)
Authenticare ID: 1124142 (your 7 digit number)
Pwd: your password

Last but not least, I don't have to have a Lahore Address or ID card to get their number.

The only drawback is, it's a 2 stage dialing and makes a little hectic for the callers. However, the positive side is that they can call you through their local gateway available in all major cities. With BrainTel, you can only make a local call from within Lahore.

I can not say anything about the voice quality as I've not used it yet. I'll try it once I get home!

Your thoughts plz...

-WT

[WishfulThinker]

Okay - I've tried their service and the voice quality on incoming calls is excellent. However, the outgoing calls don't sound excellent but they're as good as any other VOIP call.

-WT

[k2man]

Originally Posted by WishfulThinker

Guys,

I think this could be a BrainTel killer; what do you think?

(snip)

Your thoughts plz...

-WT

Two-part dialing is a non starter. Try explaining to your grandmother what your phone number is. Also most people dial using phonebooks from mobiles, how do explain to people how your extention should be entered. It has some value, but not a BrainTel killer by a long long shot.

[WishfulThinker]

Originally Posted by k2man

Two-part dialing is a non starter. Try explaining to your grandmother what your phone number is. Also most people dial using phonebooks from mobiles, how do explain to people how your extention should be entered. It has some value, but not a BrainTel killer by a long long shot.

Tht's correct and tht's the only weak point it has. On the contrary, it has a lot of value. With BrainTel, the caller can only make a local call from within Lahore and with Tpad your friends and family can call you from all major cities like Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Gujrat and for all, it would be just a local call; and your family-member or friend in Norway, UK, USA can also call you on the same number and again it would cost him just a local call. You can also have separate numbers for family or friends or whatever!

So there are pros n cons with both BT and Tpad. I was calling it a BT Killer as a whole and I still think it can be....

-WT

[k2man]

Originally Posted by WishfulThinker

Tht's correct and tht's the only weak point it has. On the contrary, it has a lot of value. (snip)
-WT

To each his own, but doesn't work for me. The punjabi's you know are probably smarter than me an my relatives.

One question, how did you explain how to call you on this number to your phophee and chachee?

[WishfulThinker]

Originally Posted by k2man

To each his own, but doesn't work for me. The punjabi's you know are probably smarter than me an my relatives.

It has nothing to do with Punjabies. I wonder, what made you say that?

-WT

[mirza001]

Calling Tpad a BrainTEL killer was nice idea but after looking at all the features and limitations it is not!

As already discussed in this thread calling overseas is so cheap now that people do not care much about the availability of local number, secondly the two step calling is NO NO, thirdly if some one will call they will have to pay local call charges which are not very cheap now, they cost for first 10 minutes and then again for 5 minutes so even if some calls the local number and then they get busy for extension they still are billed for their call, calling overseas may be cheap as it will be per minute billing.

If there might be any BrainTEL killer it might be www.phone.net.pk which still have not been able to get their license for the last one year from PTA!

[k2man]

now Wishful Thinker is pushing Tpad too hard, but if anyone has potential then Pakistantel.net has cheap dids. Anyone using them?
here is the other thread about them
http://forum.voxilla.com/other-provi...com-20935.html (PakistanTEL.net - Pakistan Telecom)

[shezad]

A friend of me went to pakistani phone company (PCO) and aske the operater to dial the pakistani gujrat number he talked to me for one minutt and the call costed him 30 rupees !!!!!!!!! He was told the number he was dialing was a worldcom number and it is very expencive.

This cant be true is it ?

I have connected a voip adapter to my and have spoken to my friends and family and have spoken now like 300 - 400 minutes : 400 * 30 = 12000 rupees, that is to mutch if this is true.

Anyone else know this system ?

[k2man]

Originally Posted by shezad

A friend of me went to pakistani phone company (PCO) and aske the operater to dial the pakistani gujrat number he talked to me for one minutt and the call costed him 30 rupees !!!!!!!!! He was told the number he was dialing was a worldcom number and it is very expencive.

This cant be true is it ?

I have connected a voip adapter to my and have spoken to my friends and family and have spoken now like 300 - 400 minutes : 400 * 30 = 12000 rupees, that is to mutch if this is true.

Anyone else know this system ?

So you are saying that TPad is ripping people off with DID that cost a fortune to dial, and most people won't know it until they get next month's bill. Then they will beat you up and ask you wouldn't it have been better if I had just called you on a Warid phone and paid Rs 1.30 pm to call you.....Cheers