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Review by ymhee_bcex See Profile
UPDATED: 292 days ago
member for 3.6 years, 165 visits, last login: 1 days ago


Tarzana,Los Angeles,CA
$20 per month
"Good connection, low price, US access number"
"some contries unrechable"
"Excellent provider"
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    My Other Reviews·Time Warner Cable
    ·VoicePulse
    I've used Call With Us for about a year now. Can't say enough good things about them. Excellent voice quality, and ease of connection. Prices are very competitive. I use it along with VoipDiscount, so it is easier for me to compare the two.

    VoipDiscount (as well as other BetaMax companies) has free calling to US - so web calls and external PBX solutions where provider makes calls to both destinations don't add any cost. CWU is 1.5c/min for US.

    On the upside, I could never get a response from VoipDiscount; whereas CWU responds in less than 24 hours (sometimes in a few hours). Also, you can pay through PayPal and Google Checkout.

    About the website. While the site is intentionally very simplistic, there is a feature that I haven't seen anywhere else. It has well-defined APIs, so you can retrieve data programmatically. Also, you can specify "VoIP accounts", so I know, which of the sources the call originated. I have two ATAs, and two cell phones that use one CWU account - so it's a nice feature.

    CWU does not allow incoming SipBroker calls, but you can forward IPKall numbers to sip.callwithus.com - so it can be used as DID - if you are OK with Washington State phone number. They stopped offering DIDs, but frankly, their DID prices were not very competitive to begin with.

    Last, they have access number (in Ohio) - so I can use it as an old-time "prepaid card" call if I want to call abroad from my cell phone.

    Two annoyances that I had this year. For some reasons couldn't reach Ukraine and Belarus on default trunk. The calls showed connected but the other party didn't even hear the phone ringing. Which was annoying, since these are more expensive countries (Ukraine - 9c/min, Belarus - 20c/min). For Ukraine Sergey suggested to force a different provider (a penny more, but I never had a problem), and for Belarus I am using VoipDiscount.

    Overall - great provider

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    PX Eliezer
    Premium
    join:2008-08-09
    New Jersey
    ·Callcentric
    ·Optimum Voice
    ·callwithus
    ·voip.ms

    CWU does allow incoming SipBroker calls.

    Your review is great.

    But you said that CWU doesn't allow incoming SipBroker calls.

    Actually, it DOES allow that. I do it all the time. I just did one now.

    CWU SipBroker code for incoming calls is *8052. Works fine.

    It is also easy to forward incoming calls by SIP URI, not just from ipKall, but also from carriers such as CallCentric and Voip.MS.

    Just call or forward to xxxxxxxxx@sip.callwithus.com where the x's represent the 9-digit voip user name, NOT the 10-digit account number.

    It's a great service.
    permalink · 2009-02-07 18:30:27 · Print · Reply to this
    ymhee_bcex

    join:2006-04-21
    Tarzana, CA
    ·Time Warner Cable
    ·VoicePulse
    ·callwithus

    Re: CWU does allow incoming SipBroker calls.

    You are correct about sipbroker. I am using *8052, but I thought it was VoipDiscount. SipBroker (»www.sipbroker.com/sipbroker/acti···itePages) split providers into 12 pages, ordered by access code - makes it very difficult to look at your provider!

    You are correct on the second point as well. I was using IPKall only as an example (and because that's what I am using). And since you can have multiple devices associated with one account (distinguished by 9-digit voip user name) - you can forward different numbers to different devices
    permalink · 2009-02-07 19:34:07 · Print · Reply to this
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