Thank you all very much for your info and your suggestions, I will try phone cheap later on, hopefully I can connect and do the new year's countdown with my gf,
Just interested, whether you did try phone cheap?
I haven't been able to get through, for a couple of days.
Finally got through, today at about 10pm Philippines time. She was cooking Pork Adobo & I could hear plenty of fireworks, going off in the background.