Best FOSS alternative for skype?

Zoltan Hoppar hopparz at gmail.com
Thu May 12 07:08:56 UTC 2011


HI Fernando,

Yesterday night I have tried out your suggestion, and works
surprisingly well. By the way, a far as I know there is an possibility
to use our Fedora SIP inside at FAS, right?

How can I acitvate  this?

Cu,

Zoltan

2011/5/12 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 21:01, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Plus, I can configure it with my local SIP VOIP service, and take
>> You mean like Vonage or MagicJack?
>>
>> Has anyone heard of lingo (http://www.lingo.com/)
>> voip provider?
>> What is/was your experience with them?
>
> Exactly, SIP is an open protocol. So that means that you can use any
> VOIP "softphone" that you want (or a hardware terminal with RJ11
> output sockets to plug an analog phone)
>
> Basically any SIP connection (hardware or software) needs 3 parameters:
>
> Your SIP User name
> Your SIP password
> the SIP server providing you service.
>
> I´m based in Argentina so for local calls I use a local SIP provider,
> which provides me with a local Buenos Aires number +54 11 ...
> (www.metrotel.com.ar)
>
> But with JITSI I can have several SIP accounts logged in at once with
> phone numbers around the globe (like a local US number, another in UK,
> etc) for inbound calls.
>
> Here´s some:
> http://www.mydivert.com/buy_telephone_numbers/41_UnitedKingdom_numbers.
> http://www.mydivert.com/buy_telephone_numbers/42_USA_numbers.html
>
> I´m sure if you Google around you´ll be able to find many options for
> SIP telephony. Also, it´s possible to do IP-to-IP SIP calls without a
> monthly fee.
>
> http://www.ipkall.com/
> http://www.callcentric.com/
> FC
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