Calling Landline Numbers in Taiwan?

Life Technology
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With Skype going away, I’m looking for a cheap alternative to call landline numbers in Taiwan from within Taiwan.

I do have a phone contract with Taiwan mobile (NT$999 monthly including home internet + 60GB 5G + unlimited 4G). However, that one only includes calling other mobile phones (120 minutes).

Recently, I foolishly assumed that calling landlines should also be included in those 120 minutes - when the next bill came, I found out that this is not the case and calling landline numbers is prohibitively expensive (for some reason…?) in my contract:

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Note that those are NT$ per second!
So they charge a freaking 6NT$ per minute…

If I use my German VOIP account, I’d roughly pay 1 NT$ per minute. However, that doesn’t sound ideal as the signal would basically need to travel around the world twice…

Some banks etc. do seem to offer 0800-numbers. But those often don’t work from a mobile phone. And I don’t have a landline phone…

Any good, local alternative to calling landline numbers in Taiwan from Taiwan without breaking the bank…?

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Viber out?

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Do you know if they have servers in Taiwan or if they’ll also route everything to the US first or something…?

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I do not. I do know they offer the service but do not know the backend.

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Here are some:
This one is $0.022 a minute

This one is $0.027 a minute

Here is a local service
https://www.seed.net.tw/voip/LTY/index.php