ot: israeli sip providers ?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On May 20, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Erez D wrote:
> i am traveling abroad, and as my nokia (N95-2) has wifi and a built  
> in SIP client, i wanted to use it for cheap calls to/from israel.
> I already used it my phone to call people via sip, and it had very  
> good sound quality.
>
> anybody knows of israeli sip providers ?
>
> (I know i can use fring with skype, but the sound quality sucks)


Olehphone, www.olehphone.com is not technicaly an Israeli SIP  
provider, but their service to Israel is pretty good. I have their  
laptop option, and demoed it to someone the other day. He felt that it  
was as good as or better than a direct BEZEQ connection from his  
calling me.

I then switched to SKYPEout and it was almost unusable, which is  
usually the case with me and SKYPE.

For the record, I have a 5m/256k cable modem with Netvision as my ISP.  
This was at about 9pm,
which is peak usage period. I am in Jerusalem, and the person calling  
me on BEZEQ and I called back was in the north.

Sammy Ominsky who is on this list (and lives in Israel) is Olehphone's  
CTO and may be able to help you.

Bear in mind that incoming numbers require outside vendors so they add  
time and cost. If you could do with just outgoing calls, he may be  
able to give you a better deal and faster service. It's
certainly worth an email, or phone call.

Keep in mind that WiFi service varies from place to place. SIP will  
die if the connection is heavily used or no QOS (Quality of Service)  
routing is in place to make it work well. Many commerical WiFi
vendors also sell landline telephone and or cellular service and some  
do very badly with SIP to avoid competing with themselves.

Geoff.
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