Used to be possible to make intl calls from CAT @ Pattaya Tai - still today?

[Tercera_Edad]

Since Skype has ceased to function, people are (or should be) in dear need of an alternative - thus access to VoIP for calls to phones anywhere in the world. 

 

Did you get it? Most 'alternatives' touted do not offer this feature, or severely restricted. This was european no-nonsense 'kvalitet' again, against (sorry, must say) american bling-bling trash quality. 

 

Why is it important? If you ever tried to call the hotline drones at a business back home (thanks to everyone following the 'american role model', this is now your only option - and it will get worse, prepare for the real robots), your cavalcade starts with the phone menu answering - that's the moment the counting starts. Assumed you're lucky, once you fifteen minutes later reach a (would-be) human, how much have you paid for nerve-wrecking, unmutable on-hold music? Using Skype, this phase could be lived through with reasonable ease - including lowering the volume. 

 

I came to remember that, many years ago, CAT used to offer walk-in customers a service to make international phone calls for rather economic fees. Is this still the case today? Or what alternatives might there be? I would think of some cybercafés or business places that offer such a service via landline phones, or via some VoIP provider. I don't have to emphasise that mobile calls are far too expensive for lengthy foreign hotline calls?

 

Any ideas? And I won't apologise to american readers taking offence. You lot have a much higher responsibility in how this hectic global 'innovation' shtick keeps running than you seem to have realised - so letting some justified steam off, that you are invited to take constructively  .)

 

 

PS Whatever happened to customer rights and their advocates?

 

 

 

[topt]

40 minutes ago, Tercera_Edad said:

Or what alternatives might there be?

Multiple 'Skype alternative' threads in IT/Mobile forum.

Here are 2 - 

 

[Briggsy]

What country are you calling? What technology can your recipient use? What numbers are you calling, landlines, mobiles or VOIP users? 

 

Give us that info and there will be a solution.

[Tercera_Edad]

Thanks topt, will try to evaluate later. Spontaneous reaction from the experience already gathered: not too confident. It just isn't european quality

Briggsy: I did. You could re-read the OP, while in general concentrating and following the logic - that could have been absent during the first round 

 

That said, you all focus on (alleged) alternatives to Skype, but my starting point were the services by CAT - and possibly others. No news about that?

 

[Tercera_Edad]

So: It's still possible, although not quite what it used to be - yet possibly an interesting alternative for those who dispose of nothing better

 

https://nc.ntplc.co.th/cat/category/282/294/CAT+|+phonenet+thaicard?lang=en_EN

 

I won't follow up here, think those interested now have what it takes to find the rest - bye!