Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services? Ideally I'd like something I can make (direct dial) calls from on my laptop+headset and it'd appear as a e.g. UK mobile. And take calls on that number, perhaps ringing another mobile as well as the laptop.
Extra points for having the ability to select the 'from' address I.e. appear as a US number. I know folks like Broadworks etc do this but they're selling into businesses, not to my knowledge consumer oriented. My take on Skype is it's fine except when it isn't: laggy & degraded echo-ey transmission doesn't sound professional. On Sep 17, 2009 2:51 PM, "Joel Bernstein" <j...@fysh.org> wrote: 2009/9/17 Andrew Black <andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk>: > I am having a debate about Skype at $work. > I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to r... Those would be the T&Cs at http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/legal/terms/voip/? To which bits do you object? They don't seem hugely unreasonable. My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike provide an open standard which Skype ignore. /joel