Arik, thank you for your email. You finally inspired me to join the
VOIP revolution :)
Arik Baratz wrote:
> 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.
>
Have you ever had any problems with them? I'm only been using them now
for a few days :), but yesterday all of my DIDs were unavailable at
random intervals. From a tcpdump and the call log, it looks like they
only tried to connect the call some 20 minutes after it was made.
Anyways, today is everything is working.
> 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.
>
And your experiences with them? I signed up a week ago (and paid!) and
my account still hasn't been activated yet... they keep posting a
message on their website saying "new accounts might only be activated on
approximately XX" and keep moving the date forward. No response from
their "fastsupport" email, and from reports on the Internet it doesn't
look like they've ever answered that email for the past few years.
I must also point out that they are in violation of PayPal's terms of
use (they charge a surcharge for payments) and their own TOS is
incredibly dodgy. You're actually already in violation for disclosing
to other people that you use their service. You also agreed never to
sue them, and of course that, "the customer acknowledges that the
service may not be working for some, most or all of the time.".
The potentially good news though is that after A LOT of searching
(indeed, good rates to Israel aren't easy to come by), I did find the
services of grnvoip.com. Here's a comparison of prices to Israel (in USD):
Land Line Cell
VoipJert.Com 0.0198 0.0949
GrnVoip Standard 0.0138 0.0792
GrnVoip Premium 0.0166 0.0951
The premium service is meant to have better voice quality... although
I've found the quality of the standard calls to be just fine on their
own. I already had a technical issue which they sorted out quite
quickly. I thought you and other members of the list might benefit from
all the searching and this experience with them. Of course, bear in
mind I've only been using their services for a few days, and I guess you
need termination to the US anyways.
> My setup allows the following:
>
Did you configure everything by hand? Or did you use a web manager?
> Downside: I get calls in the middle of the night from MILUIM... don't ask.
>
Mmm... you could always block calls from unlisted numbers... at the very
least after hours. Or you could direct unlisted numbers to some silence
and they'll need to know in advance they'll have 5 seconds to press "1"
after the phone stops ringing... there are a lot of creative solutions
here :)
Again, thanks for the inspiration.
Gadi
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