Someone mentioned sipgate. Looks like they aren't accepting new customers anymore. https://secure.sipgate.com/register/unavailable
That's unfortunate, it would have been a god send as a backup phone for me and my family. Wonder what's going on that they don't want new customers. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I may be better off with Freeswitch for this particular project. > Oddly enough giving out international phone numbers might be a huge bonus > here. > As it turns out many, many people in this region are expats from > Canada, Australia and the US. Also a lot of the businesses are hotels > etc that would like a north american presence. Turns out getting > actual ecuadorian phone numbers may be very problematic. The > incumbent carrier seems to only want to sell them in blocks of 10,000 > and the only competition they have are mobile carriers which do not > wish (or maybe just cannot), sell or rent the numbers as DID. > I'm sure this can be gotten around eventually. I probably just need > more business acumen. > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Steve Alligood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Your biggest difference is that asterisk has been around a long time, has a >>> lot of community support, and a ton of add-on type apps. >>> >>> Freeswitch is a lessons learned from asterisk type of thing, redesigned >>> from the ground up, makes more sense under the hood if you do a lot of >>> custom work with it, etc, but a lot less add ons, community knowledge, etc. >> >> I think this is a pretty fair assessment. >> >> I'll spare you a long reply, but I will say that I love Asterisk and >> FreeSWITCH. I used them both long before they each hit their 1.0. I >> love Asterisk for changing the landscape and being so disruptive >> (initially). I love FreeSWITCH for it's flexibility and power. >> >> If you're really serious about it, both deserve your thoughtful >> consideration. >> >> Happy hacking. >> >> >> Gabe >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
