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This was posted on Digg "Free USA Phone Number, Free Voice Mail, Free incoming calls With no strings attached, this is the promotion of the year from a VOIP carrier called voicestick.com. You can even get a free soft phone." What a great way to talk to business or loved ones in the USA

Hi All Apologies if this has been covered before. Can a Cisco IP phone (cp7912) work with skype. If so I would be very grateful for instructions. Thanks in anticipation

I see the above is needed with a PAP2 for an standard BT phone to be used. What exactly does than mean? How can I tell? I have some that came with an old fax switch, took one apart and it seems to have three wires connected. TIA -- Regards

Hi all, do you good people have any recommendations for VoIP providers who offer free calls to UK landlines? I have looked at Voipcheap but they simply ignore my e-mail queries for weeks, so I'm not going to give them my hard-earned money! ;) Anyone else you know of that isn't affiliated with them? -- Thanks, Me

Any mobiles available now or very soon which will support the SIP protocol? Thanks

As title really - didn't realise that finarea companies don't pass DTMF :(

My VOIP provider offers both an 0870 number and a geographic number for incoming calls. I'm not sure what this means in terms of call charges for my callers (customers!), and I know some people get quite wary of 0870 numbers. Can anyone tell me whether my callers will be charged a premium rate of either? Thnx,

Sipgate have enabled MWI. From the website: MWI: Message Waiting Indicator Now Beta Testing We have added the Message Waiting Indicator function found on many SIP phones. You can normally activate the feature from within your device. It indicates that you have voicemail waiting.

I'm looking for recommendations for a company who might be able to provide us with a VoIP-based phone system for a multi-site medium-sided company (90 trunks, 250+ extensions at Head Office, between 6t/20x and 30t/100x at 16 or so other branches). We already use Lucent/Avaya Index across most sites, but with neither tie-lines nor VoIP (yet). Asterisk would be an acceptable...

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Hi guys, I posted this in the A@H forums but hope I might catch a few more helpful people here too... I'd appreciate some real-world experience if possible: If we roll out our * trial, we will initially have about 30 IP phones (no analogues), one per branch office, and I was wondering about conference/bandwidth issues...

Does anyone know how to set-up www.voipcheap.co.uk using the Grandstream Handytone-486?? Thanx

wrote in message On Sat, 13 May 2006 00:09:25 +0100, wrote: I am looking to buy a Sipura ATA from a shop in London. Where? Thank you. Get a pap2 from Currys digital and unlock it. Only £19.99. RRP £50+

I have BT Fusion using the supplied Inventel router. I recently took up BT's offer of 'free' Broadband Talk with BT Internet Option 4 and they sent me a new 05600 number. Trouble is, I don't seem to be able to use this router for the service. I tried calling about a million customer service departments in BT (you know the story!) and was eventually told that Fusion and Broadband Talk are...

Right, Assuming our pilot project is a success, it looks like we may need more bandwidth for our needs, as a plain old 8Mbit/488K broadband link may not do the job. The end system will not be 'mission critical' so moving to E1s would be overkill so I guess I have to consider SDSL or a hosted solution - the latter is the subject of this hour's question from me - would any kind soul point me...

Hi guys Do any of you know whether a SIP firmware has been released for this phone yet?? Dean

Hi All, I have the following that i purchased and ended up not needing. These are Cisco Analog phone gateways. The VG224 can hold up to 24 lines and the VG248 can hold up to 48 lines. 1 x VG224 NEW IN BOX @ $3400 2 x VG248 NEW IN BOX @ $4800/each

A solution: Multiple outgoing providers from a single handset on an ATA such as linksys / sipura PAP2, SPA-1001 etc. In response to people who have posted here and have sent me emails about the topic. I have posted, on a web site, some instructional articles. A friend allows me use of some of his web space so I am making use of it. The topic is aimed at those people who want to use...

I have just opened an account and it works fine on my computer with the X-lite software. I now want to receive incoming calls without my computer switched on. 1. What equipment do I need? 2. Will this work when I go abroad? (receive incoming calls without computer switched on - I have adsl abroad). 3. Is it still free to receive incoming calls abroad? C S

Is anyone here running VoIP traffic across multiple VPNs - specifically OpenVPN? Does the VPN's inbuilt compression have any positive or negative effects? Any gotchas? Thanks