You call a number in Germany and end up somewhere in a call center in India or Bulgaria – nothing fancy with a decent Internet access and some pieces of VOIP Open Source software. Now you call a Swiss number and end up at my house.
Although the water pressure is often gone and snakes love the area in Winter Anamulenge has it’s benefits: three different ADSL devices around – and guess who is in charge of them:-). US$ 29.90 for a SIP phone from Taiwan, an old access point as repeater and a three hour configuration battle at night. No more needed. The phone is working pretty well even 50m away from the house.