An alternative to Skype

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Steve G. wrote:
>
> To make phone calls, other than skype there is ekiga and probably  
> some other things, as well as gmail, but these are not free.



Free as in beer, you can get a free SIP "number" at sip2sip.info. Once  
you have that, you can get a free incoming number (DID) in Washington  
State USA at IPKall.com.

Once you have the DID working, you can get a Google Voice account, if  
you sign up from a US IP address. In order to sign up, it will call  
you on your US number. With Google voice, you can get an incoming  
number in most states in the US. (I don't know if they do Alaska or  
Hawaii).

Note that none of these provide any real technical support, and IPKall  
provides absolutely NONE.

For Windows and MAC there are several free clients, such as X-Lite and  
Zoiper. If you have your own Asterisk system there is VOIX client. I  
don't of any open source Windows or MAC clients, but you have your  
choice of several for Linux.

Geoff.

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