Long distance with home phone?

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Long distance with home phone?

Post by pete_fpl »

I went on the website to see about long distance vouchers so I can use it with my home phone, and noticed desktop and mobile vouchers. Does one or the other apply towards calling using a home phone? Or are they only valid with the softphone or a mobile device?
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Re: Long distance with home phone?

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If I am not mistaken, the voucher can be applied to anything freephoneline offers. At least for the windows soft phone, and SIP settings. I have not personally experienced the other services, but I cannot see what the problem would be.
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The 'desktop' vouchers are essentially tied to your SIP line with us and can be used in both the softphone or your ATA.
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Re: Long distance with home phone?

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I'm pretty sure what Pete is asking is that if he buys a voucher, can he use it with his home line *AND* mobile phone app? Assuming he is talking about the dialer app that dials FPL access numbers for you...
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Re: Long distance with home phone?

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bridonca wrote:If I am not mistaken, the voucher can be applied to anything freephoneline offers. At least for the windows soft phone, and SIP settings. I have not personally experienced the other services, but I cannot see what the problem would be.
I guess you were not mistaken - fpl-steve confirmed you were right :)
FPL-steve wrote:The 'desktop' vouchers are essentially tied to your SIP line with us and can be used in both the softphone or your ATA.
thanks so much :)
tbrummell wrote:I'm pretty sure what Pete is asking is that if he buys a voucher, can he use it with his home line *AND* mobile phone app? Assuming he is talking about the dialer app that dials FPL access numbers for you...
no no, I want to use it with my ata device. That last sentence I think was confusing. I just meant if the softphone or mobile vouchers were the only options.
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Re: Long distance with home phone?

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pete_fpl wrote:
tbrummell wrote:I'm pretty sure what Pete is asking is that if he buys a voucher, can he use it with his home line *AND* mobile phone app? Assuming he is talking about the dialer app that dials FPL access numbers for you...
no no, I want to use it with my ata device. That last sentence I think was confusing. I just meant if the softphone or mobile vouchers were the only options.
Ahhh, ok then.