On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine is moving abroad, and wanted to keep in cheap contact > with his friends and fanily in Israel. He tried talking me into > installing Asterisk at my home for him to be able to do that, but I > don't want to diving into the maintenance of more equipment and software > (though he was more than willing to donate all the hardware needed, > etc). Question is, if there's an Israeli company that provides Packet8 > or Vonage-like service with an Israeli local line and number?
Hi Ira, I have moved to the US 3 years ago, and I have a system in place that I believe accomplishes what he wants. I've been using www.didww.com successfully for a few years now as a DID in Israel. Friends and family call my Israeli number and the call gets routed to my Asterisk box in the US. The cost is very reasonable (an 077 number is $3/month) and it's a flat rate for up to two simultaneous calls. My termination service for the box is voipjet.com which has a very reasonable rate for Israel (2c/min LL, 10c/min cell). They say that they don't want end users to use their services, only carriers; they didn't kick me out though so I guess that as long as everything is okay they won't care. As for the asterisk box, I'm hosting it on the cheapest Linux VPS server from www.vpslink.com, and it costs $8/month. I can't run anything else when the asterisk process is running (it has only 64M RAM), but it's working like a charm for over two years now. Plus, an extra box to SSH to in times of need is always nice. I use it to tunnel out of tough spots on occasion (ssh -N -n -f -D 1080 host) My setup allows the following: 1. People dialling the DID in Israel, France and the US (coming soon: Australia) get routed to both my softphone and my US cellphone (whichever answers first) 2. Whenever I dial my own US DID (caller ID...) I get a second dial tone and after punching a code I can dial anywhere in the world, like a calling card. Downside: I get calls in the middle of the night from MILUIM... don't ask. -- Arik ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
