1899 offer voice over IP (VoIP) calls

mhawkshaw

I've been experimenting with a setup with sipgate & call1899 under Mac OS X and I've successfully got it working. If you would like to know how, you can PM me.

Toxteth_OGrady

Next question for BexTech and Phonix.

Firefly with Sipgate inbound and 1899 VoIP outbound. How do you configure Firefly for voicemail and text messages?

TIA

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TOG

andy88_2

Phonix wrote:

If you have a relative living in another country with a 3G mobile, it may, MAY be possible to use SIPgate on the foriegn 3g mobile. I think it may possible to do this via GPRS but the bandwidth is quite limited and the quality would probably be very poor.

Mmm, very interesting. Looks like one or two phone companies might not like to hear that ...

Text probably too expensive; I've seen people talking about using GPRS to send text; I think one is called smsBug

I'm going to have to learn something about this new 3 phone then!

Phonix

nah it's inconvienient but you send the text normally via the phone or go the very cheap way and send it for free over the net. Problem with sending an international text is delay though, it's worth sending it via the phone if you want to talk for an hour or so.

As for voicemail, sorry m8 I don't use that software but there should be voicemail included with the sipgate service.

The only problem I can see with the cable solution (no landline) is tuse of the SIPgate number as the primary 1899 number. If this stops working how will you use 1899?

Does anyone know of a wireless router that has a couple of SIPports? All the ones mentioned aren'ty wireless.

The cheap solution to a wireles SIPphone though is a DECT phone connected to one of the routers mentioned.

BexTech

Yes Sipgate has voicemail, though it is in beta testing. You can enable it by logging into your account on the website.

I do not use voicemail on any phone, as it is not right to force those who have to pay for calls to my numbers, to then be charged for not getting through to me, and ending up on voicemail. I believe people should have the choice whether they wish to pay to leave a message or not, therefore I have a dedicated voicemail number, they can ring if they wish to do so.

Phonix

The only problem there is they have to remember two numbers.

BexTech

Phonix wrote:

The only problem there is they have to remember two numbers.

Not a problem at all, plus they'd have to remember more than two, there's the mobile number they could try before the voicemail number.

This is a much better solution than annoying them with a voicemail service, they didn't want to get through to and be charged.

You would be surprised at the number of people who are annoyed at been forcibly being charged for not being able to speak to the actual person.

Phonix

IMHO for the future here's what I think needs to be done.


A corp needs to get behind 1899/18866 and offer free UK geo numbers. The company that comes to mind is sipphone. This is a Micheal Robertson VoIP startup. Imo 1899 is an incentive for him to invest more in the UK OS market. He's behind the consumer linux distro Linspire, a very affordable easy to use alternative Operating system to Windows.

Note: I am not in anyway linked to these companies. However I'm a big supporter of linux and would really like VoIP to be the thing that pushes open standards forwards.

Phonix

Not a problem at all, plus they'd have to remember more than two, there's the mobile number they could try before the voicemail number.

This is a much better solution than annoying them with a voicemail service, they didn't want to get through to and be charged.

You would be surprised at the number of people who are annoyed at been forcibly being charged for not being able to speak to the actual person.

Aye I agree it's pretty criminal and I've paid alot because of this, especially when calling a mobile at 35p/min.

Worse still is being charged to listen to your voicemail.

v

The relative difficulty will be country/network/phone specific. You'd need to know about the 3g coverage in other countries and what phones/os each uses. Imo the future lies in municipal 802.11a wifi meshes but don't listen to me as I don't know a great deal on that subject.

BexTech

I don't think it's right to be charged to listen to voicemail, though both T-Mobile and Virgin do not charge for this from the handset.

These companies like people to have voicemail or 1571, because they get extra revenue if their network answers the call, revenue they wouldn't get if the just allow the number to ring out, give a busy tone, or switched off and not available messages.