[buug] Looking for usable VoIP

[Mark Lu]

It sounds like what you want is some sort of “SIP origination” service since SIP is basically the standard VoIP protocol. There are several providers out there, many with very competitive rates. If you’re unhappy with any one, all you have to do is port your number and give your new provider your SIP address.

It’s been a while since I’ve last done a VoIP setup, so I don’t recall which providers I used. However, I do know that Twilio provides SIP origination and termination.


> On Jan 23, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a personal VoIP service that can be used with the FOSS
> usual suspects - linphone, ekiga or such.
> 
> A couple years back I tried these 2:
> 
> Diamondcard [1] - seems very flexible, lots of features, but their links
> to "gold bugs" are unsettling, see for example [2].
> 
> Voxcorp [3] - had terrible call quality at that time, and now the
> website seems to be a blog and nothing more, a good sign the telco
> business didn't work out.
> 
> Any others?  I assume the likes of Vonage chain you to their software
> and maybe even a particular OS, so I never looked at them, but maybe I
> am wrong?
> 
> [1]
> http://diamondcard.us/
> 
> [2]
> http://wiki.diamondcard.us/podwiki?page=Gata
> 
> [3]
> http://www.voxcorp.net/
> 
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