There is another web site which compares prices all over the world services.
The only catch is that it's needed to invest 10 Euro in advance.
Here it is: http://backsla.sh/betamax
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 0.01980.0949
> GrnVoip Standard 0.0138 0.0792
> GrnVoip Premium0.0166 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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