Everything I need, experience has been good, but a little frustrating
I was a little apprehensive about moving my phone on to Voip, especially after reading the review by Stephen Hughes.
I found the service very poor in that it was difficult to get the information I needed.
The kit arrived in good time and I was able to plug it in to my house extensions easily. My 5 house extensions were linked to the incoming BT box. All I needed to do is link the box they sent me to a port on my router (OK if you have a plug on the BT box: it would be more difficult if you had an old style wired BT box), My BT Box is in a bedroom and my KIT box is downstairs next to my ZZOOMM router. They sent me a 6 inch connector cable, but I just purchased a 6 metre one!
They eventually sent me a kit portal via email so I can look at and manage the line activity. Unfortunately they sent no instructions, so working out how everything works is a bit of an adventure.
The telephone answering is fascinating. I received a wav file with the message in it. I thought why cannot I listen online? You can, but you need to type in 8400, knowledge you can only have when you find "voice mail telephone access" in their app.
As soon as I plug in I started to receive the dreaded spam calls. KIT claim that the system has call blocking, but I really could not find it for weeks. They have a feature which blocks calls with no caller id. I switched it on and it works fine: I thought this is what they meant by call blocking. I was wrong because today I was delighted to find the call blocking feature. You have to set an entry in your personal address book, check "block this number" and save. This is much better than my previous telephone provider where I could only block numbers from answered calls.
They should have created me an online account where I can view my invoices, and did eventually when I contacted billing. It's a separate web site, so you need to log in separately.
My first invoice was over £50, but now I know why.
£25 set-up, £12.50 to retain my land line number, and £14.50 for first months rental( I use an optional extra feature) +VAT sends it over £50. I've had a later bill which just charges for rental.
Their support guys tended to not know stuff and said they'd log a call and someone would ring me back, but never did, I got there in the end. The system is pretty good. The experience could have been made so much better if they sent a comprehensive guide via email when I signed-up.
August 27, 2023
Unprompted review