Is anyone interested in using a free voice chat or phone? Google voice seems limited to the US only. Skype was bought by Microsoft so it's future is uncertain and may become a Windows/Mac item. Skype on Linux has always been poor.
Options include TeamSpeak, or one of the may free SIP account providers with free voice mail and conference rooms.
With a free SIP phone (many to choose from) SIP to SIP calls are free world wide. In some places you can get free in bound phone numbers. In Skype the Skype-in numbers are $60/ year. Free is much better.
I have a free in number in France.. LOL with voice mail and if my phone is on, will ring my house in the US for free..
Attached to this account is a free Seattle area land line. The number is from IPKall. You can be anywhere in the world and have a free inbound US number.
The provider is ippi.fr. Same user name as here if you SIP me there. I don't have access at work so that will go to voice mail when I'm not home. The provider has free conference rooms.
Ekiga makes a free softphone. It has chat, and video phone features. Ekiga also has free SIP accounts but does not provide a dialable number. Their SIP accounts are username@ekiga.net.
Sipbroker permits dialing from one sip provider to another such as calling ippi.fr from an Ekiga account by dialing a prefix.
Anybody else playing with free international calling with VOIP?
I'm currently looking for a free London DID to add. So far I haven't found one.
Testing a script. Is my phone online at the moment?
<script></script> Script is disabled..
Thoughts?
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New info that may be useful. Until yesterday I never heard of iNum numbers. I got one with a free SIP account and didn't even know what it was until I looked it up.
It is an international locationless number. Many phone plans will call those numbers as a local call. You can directly call me from a British Telcom pay phone for the price of a local call. Most other SIP VOIP calling plans can call the iNum numbers for free. The iNum are dial in numbers.
For more info;
http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum/what-is-inum/
In short you can be called in most of the world for the price of a local phone call. If you have phone service from a participating phone provider, you can call any iNum for free.
List of providers and call in numbers.
http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum/voice-reach/
This is the current list of providers that can call the numbers for free or low price. At the bottom of the list is a list of call in numbers for those not on a plan to call the numbers. You can dial a local access number and then dial any iNum.
For example in the US where I live, I can use my cell phone and call anywhere in the US for free. I can dial one of the numbers in the US for free such as one in Chicago. Then I can dial any iNum for free.
You can get a free SIP account and iNum at ippi.fr. It is where I got mine. With a SIP account you can then dial any iNum for free.
Long distance is becoming obsolete fast.
Some of my co-workers have family back in Vietnam. Vietnam has high charges to call them. Most plans are about $0.25/min to call to Vietnam. With family getting free SIP numbers and iNum numbers, the call to them just became free.
It is an international locationless number. Many phone plans will call those numbers as a local call. You can directly call me from a British Telcom pay phone for the price of a local call. Most other SIP VOIP calling plans can call the iNum numbers for free. The iNum are dial in numbers.
For more info;
http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum/what-is-inum/
In short you can be called in most of the world for the price of a local phone call. If you have phone service from a participating phone provider, you can call any iNum for free.
List of providers and call in numbers.
http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum/voice-reach/
This is the current list of providers that can call the numbers for free or low price. At the bottom of the list is a list of call in numbers for those not on a plan to call the numbers. You can dial a local access number and then dial any iNum.
For example in the US where I live, I can use my cell phone and call anywhere in the US for free. I can dial one of the numbers in the US for free such as one in Chicago. Then I can dial any iNum for free.
You can get a free SIP account and iNum at ippi.fr. It is where I got mine. With a SIP account you can then dial any iNum for free.
Long distance is becoming obsolete fast.
Some of my co-workers have family back in Vietnam. Vietnam has high charges to call them. Most plans are about $0.25/min to call to Vietnam. With family getting free SIP numbers and iNum numbers, the call to them just became free.
