Free Voip and Free International Call

Localphone, winner of cheap international call provider of the year 2008 at VOIP guide has once again slashed calling rates for many destinations including India, Pakistan,Bangladesh.

As you might have noticed, Lot of large telecom/VOIP Providers are slowly moving towards a standard 1 cent per minute rates for India. Pakistan is still hovering around 6=9 cents per minute. Although betamax services like actionvoip, smartvoip and jumblo offers one the most cheapest calling rates to most asian countries, they are not reliable when it comes to your money.

VOIP Providers like Localphone are focused on providing quality service. If you still don't know yet, I personally use only localphone to make all my international calls. VOIP Guide was instrumental in making Localphone service better in some way or the other. All comments on this blog are read by localphone staff and localphone has always responded with new features and offers.

Not only they offer local access numbers in various countries, they offer a great VOIP service which you can use from anywhere in the world. You can simply download their Localphone VOIP softphone or configure localphone SIP settings on X-lite or your voip adapter. I will write a separate post detailing how to setup localphone using SIP.

Coming back to the news, localphone has slashes calling rates for the following countries effective from 12:00 GMT (noon) on Monday 13th July. The new calling rates are as follows:

Bangladesh- 3.5¢ /min
India- 2.5¢ /min
Malaysia- 1.4¢ /min
New Zealand - Mobile- 16.0¢ /min
Pakistan - 7.9¢ /min
South Africa - Mobile- 10.9¢ /min
Thailand- 1.0¢ /min

Source: voipguides.blogspot.com

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Posted by Agus at 10:40 AM | Permalink | Comments

I have found a better VOIP client for windows. It's free and supports both win5 and win6 for mobile. It also has an option to have the calls to be heard on earphone. Please tick this when you sign in to your sip login. The issue of sound coming through speaker in case of HTC TILT and other win phones is thus overcome.
When the call is being connected, you may want to click on the speaker icon and again click on it so that the sound would come through the earpiece.
Other features that the phone client has which I did not checkout are: 1. Call transfer. 2. Call recording.

Good part is that if you have multiple sip accounts it saves your sip login and config information for each sip userid as a dropdown list. You just have to select the relevant account and click on login.

The url to download the free client:
Win5 Client
Win6 Client

They also offer a PC based VOIP softphone if mobile voip is too geeky for you :-)

I observed that we need to manually type the phone number to call. The calls go through 3G in case of USA and the voice quality is very good.

Happy calling. I am very happy with PortSip and would recommend you to try it out too!

Source: voipguide.blogspot.com

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Posted by Agus at 10:37 AM | Permalink | Comments

Lots of people were eagerly waiting for VOIPZoom SIP Settings. For only monthly fee of € 2.50/month(Euro)/3.19 USD, you can make free international calls to over 41 destinations around the world. The only shortfall VOIP zoom service had was non comptability of the SIP based connectivity.

However, we finally found it. Its not officially out on their website yet but regular visitor Kulwinder Singh did DNS lookup on VOIPZoom and accidently found SIP settings on VOIPZoom. Thanks to Kulwinder for sharing this news with us. We them did some more test to confirm that SIP is indeed available on VOIPZoom.

We strongly suggest if you are using VOIPZoom service and have a VOIP Adapter/SIP Phone then try thes SIP settings.

----Kulwinder's Analysis---------

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> sip.voipzoom.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10210 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;sip.voipzoom.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: sip.voipzoom.com. 504 IN A 194.120.0.198 sip.voipzoom.com. 504 IN A 194.221.62.198 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: voipzoom.com. 171413 IN NS ns3.betamax.com. voipzoom.com. 171413 IN NS ns1.betamax.com. voipzoom.com. 171413 IN NS ns2.betamax.com. ------- ----------My Analysis----------------- Pinging sip.voipzoom.com [194.221.62.198] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 194.221.62.198: bytes=32 time=364ms TTL=231 Reply from 194.221.62.198: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=231 Reply from 194.221.62.198: bytes=32 time=367ms TTL=231 Reply from 194.221.62.198: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=231 Ping statistics for 194.221.62.198: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 364ms, Maximum = 367ms, Average = 365ms ------------------- Now try using the following VOIP Zoom SIP Settings: SIP port : 5060 Registrar : sip.voipzoom.com Proxy server : sip.voipzoom.com Outbound proxy server : leave empty Account name : your VoipZoom username Password : your VoipZoom password Let us know if these VOIP Zoom SIP settings working for you.
Source: voipguides.blogspot.com

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Posted by Agus at 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments