Voice over IP/Broadband

What's the current state of voice over broadband/IP? I've read that it's
taken off in the States and was wondering what it's like in the UK.

Can you phone mobiles for free?
Is it going to be completely free? If not, how much do you think calls
will cost, to mobiles?
What's the line quality like? My only experience of it was listening to
someone making an international call and I could hardly hear the person
on the other end, but that was about 3 years ago.

TIA


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Steve uttered in <WeABc.379$(E-Mail Removed)>:

> What's the current state of voice over broadband/IP? I've read that it's
> taken off in the States and was wondering what it's like in the UK.
>
> Can you phone mobiles for free?
> Is it going to be completely free? If not, how much do you think calls
> will cost, to mobiles?
> What's the line quality like? My only experience of it was listening to
> someone making an international call and I could hardly hear the person
> on the other end, but that was about 3 years ago.

VoIP, point to point, is free. All you need is a softphone (software phone)
at each end, and the appropriate holes punched in a firewall.

Calling landlines / mobiles will require that you register with some kind of
provider service. They gateway your call from your computer to the
standard phone network, and charge you the appropriate fee.

There are services like Free World Dialup (which has horrible latency) which
provide 'communities' of VoIP users. I talk to a friend in the USA using
VoIP quite frequently, and it works fine. Talk to my parents using VoIP
too.

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"Duncan Hill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote >
> There are services like Free World Dialup (which has horrible latency)
which
> provide 'communities' of VoIP users. I talk to a friend in the USA using
> VoIP quite frequently, and it works fine. Talk to my parents using VoIP
> too.
Which VOIP service do you use. I was just going to embark upto FWD but you
mention the horible latency? How true is that?

A.Mer

G Amer wrote:

> "Duncan Hill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote >
>
>>There are services like Free World Dialup (which has horrible latency)
>
> which
>
>>provide 'communities' of VoIP users. I talk to a friend in the USA using
>>VoIP quite frequently, and it works fine. Talk to my parents using VoIP
>>too.
>
> Which VOIP service do you use. I was just going to embark upto FWD but you
> mention the horible latency? How true is that?

I'm currently testing Gossiptel on behalf of UK-Bug. Latency is not an
issue on Gossiptel.

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"Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote > I'm currently
testing Gossiptel on behalf of UK-Bug.

Is gossiptel based on sip protocol? Can you call FWD users or Skype users?

Mer

G Amer wrote:

> "Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote > I'm currently
> testing Gossiptel on behalf of UK-Bug.
>
> Is gossiptel based on sip protocol? Can you call FWD users or Skype users?

Yup .. seems so. Call FWD ? You mean just forward a caller to a 3rd
party number ? I thought most (all?) VoIP solutions did that - and
didnt think Gossiptel was anything special in doing this. Wrong ?


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"Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> G Amer wrote:
>
> > "Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote > I'm currently
> > testing Gossiptel on behalf of UK-Bug.
> >
> > Is gossiptel based on sip protocol? Can you call FWD users or Skype
users?
>
> Yup .. seems so. Call FWD ? You mean just forward a caller to a 3rd
> party number ? I thought most (all?) VoIP solutions did that - and
> didnt think Gossiptel was anything special in doing this. Wrong ?
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Andy M Jenkins
>
> UK Broadband Usergroup http://www.uk-bug.net

Ummm he means FWD....Free World Dialup


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Steve:
>Can you phone mobiles for free?

DREAM ON...
They paid £22b to the gov. for their licences, WE will be re-paying that
with interest for decades !
Regards,
Martin

Andy M Jenkins:
>Yup .. seems so. Call FWD ? You mean just forward a caller to a 3rd
>party number ?

HEY, WAKE UP at the back !
Find out what Free World Dialup and SKYPE is before reporting tour tests...
Regards,
Martin

Martin² wrote:
> Andy M Jenkins:
>
>>Yup .. seems so. Call FWD ? You mean just forward a caller to a 3rd
>>party number ?
>
>
> HEY, WAKE UP at the back !
> Find out what Free World Dialup and SKYPE is before reporting tour tests...
> Regards,
> Martin

In my defence, this was the first time I'd seen this abbriviation in utb.

Still, I'll get my coat.

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