Category: Telecoms

  • Bye bye Blueface

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    Tom Raftery
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    Finally I have had enough of the unreliability of the Blueface service! My new phone number is +353-21-490 8485. This is the Eircom number on my DSL service. I may go to another provider in time but for now, at least I know the Eircom service works.

  • Blueface service down again

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    Tom Raftery
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    Just as a matter of documenting the failings of my Blueface VOIP service, I am unable to make outgoing calls on my Blueface service again this morning. I’m shocked. Oh hang on, no I’m not!

  • Blueface service down yet again this morning

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    Tom Raftery
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    This morning I was unable to receive incoming calls on my Blueface service. I discovered this when Brian Greene tried to call me. Fortunately we were having an IM chat on Skype at the time so we were able to talk on Skype instead but had it not been for that, I would have been…

  • Blueface is crap

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    Tom Raftery
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    Yet again my Blueface VOIP telephony provider won’t let me make outgoing calls. This really is a crap ‘service’.

  • GrandCentral – a couple of questions

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    Tom Raftery
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    GrandCentral is an offering from the original creators of DialPad, which gives you one phone number for all your telecommunications. According to GrandCentral’s site, with a GrandCentral account you get: One Number…for LifeTM – Pick a number that will not change when you move or change jobs. ListenInTM on Voicemail – ListenIn on your messages…

  • Blueface has me blue in the face.

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written before about what a crap service I am receiving from voip telephony provider Blueface. Now I know why they are called Blueface. Yet again today the Blueface service is down and I can’t make outgoing calls from my landline. And anyone who has called me on my mobile knows just how bad…

  • ComReg craps on consumers (again)

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    Tom Raftery
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    Pat reported this morning that Smart Telecom’s phone service was down. Their upstream provider, Eircom, cut them off for non-payment of bills leaving 40,000+ of Smart’s customers with no phone service. Were I cynical I’d suggest that Eircom did this as a cheap means of acquiring 40,000+ new customers. The Irish telecom’s regulator, ComReg (aka…

  • Would you pay to receive a phone call from me?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In a follow up to my post the other day on Jahjah, I spoke to Greg Spector, Chief Marketing Officer of Rebtel today and he explained Rebtel’s model to me in great detail. There are a number of differences between the two services, the main one being Jahjah requires a software download to work on…