Telecom fixed line telephone costs?

[English teacher]

We're also 500m up, about 15 km away from San Severino, mid Marche. I don't hold out any hopes for adsl, as we're a long way from the nearest adsl connection. I think you have to be within a few km of adsl to get the line, so it's pretty hopeless for us.

[NickZ]

You need to be 8? km from the central office. Centralino I guess in Italian terms. The place with all the phone hardware. Problem that isn't 8 in a straight line. It's in wire length. So if the wire goes up and around a mountain then the driving distance would be less.

I'm hoping for more upgrades to the cell phone system. It seems most of the cities of any size are up to HSPDA which would be plenty fast for most of us.

[Paul RG]

Originally Posted by NickZ

.....I'm hoping for more upgrades to the cell phone system. It seems most of the cities of any size are up to HSPDA which would be plenty fast for most of us.

What the heck is HSPDA and how do you know if you've got it?

[Noble]

Regarding adsl (broadband) internet provider. We are at 627 metres and nowhere near a town but we have adsl because we face the "right mountain" The height was an advantage. It is supplied by ariadsl from Foligno, a long way away. So it is worth asking around to find out what wireless services are available in your area. I am not the techie but we have a fast services at good value. intro

[NickZ]

Originally Posted by Paul RG

What the heck is HSPDA and how do you know if you've got it?

3.5G. If your phone supports it then it might show up on the screen. Mine does when in a HSPDA covered area. From what I've seen most larger towns have it now. The question is how quickly they roll it out to smaller areas. But even just plain 3G is faster then an Edge cell phone connection.

[Sebastiano]

Originally Posted by rosietat

yes it a new line. It sounds an outragous price as well as the time one has to wait. I hope since an old line goes to an adjoining property that I won't have to pay so much. Since I have limited funds this year maybe it would be a good thing to wait 3 years!!!
Rosietat

Unlike most people here who seem to want a land line at all costs we will be getting it removed the unsustainably high costs cannot today be justified and as most of the mobile cell phone operators have a decent signal here we will go onto these for internet too.
last month's bill (as a business operator it costs us more ) were as follows:
line 1. normal house use (hardly any use!) Euro 68.
line 2. dedicated fax line (lot of use) Euro 109,50.
line 3. dedicated internet line (they take 3 months in advance) Euro 204,50.
line 4. office line Euro 539,00( this because they "finally" debited six months of calls to netherlands all at once)
total bill April 2008 Euro 921,00.

suggestion :stick with a cell phone and use skype/voip etc for distance calls.

[deborahandricky]

Originally Posted by Sebastiano

line 2. dedicated fax line (lot of use) Euro 109,50.

Hi
Have you looked at pamfax, its a free bit of software from Skype, that uses your Skypecredit...........may help ........

[NickZ]

I had to make a call to my insurance company. Their green number doesn't work with a cell phone By the end of the call I'd spent about one month of Telecom Italias fixed line cost.

Then I bought one of those calling cards. Except the "great" deal is horrid if you call from a cellphone. The cellphone companies all have deals for calling countries I've never heard of

If I was making lots of LD calls I'd get one of the deals. What's the all you can call plan? 10 Euros a month?

[rosietat]

Sadly my SKYPE signal is so weak I am unable to have a conversation with anyone. My family have been calling from UK to my mobile and the latest bill there is £350!
Since I am not a business my costs will not be anything like yours Sebastiano.
So far I have been told to connect my phone to conferm my new telephone number??? But I have nothing to connect it to yet.

[deborahandricky]

Originally Posted by rosietat

Sadly my SKYPE signal is so weak I am unable to have a conversation with anyone. My family have been calling from UK to my mobile and the latest bill there is £350!
Since I am not a business my costs will not be anything like yours Sebastiano.
So far I have been told to connect my phone to conferm my new telephone number??? But I have nothing to connect it to yet.

Hi
Sorry to sound like Mr Skype , get yourself a SKYPEIN Number, we have a UK number that clients and family call, and its just the cost of a local call for them, once you have this you can divert the number to your home land line or mobile, it really works well and save a fortune .............good luck