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 Review by SimGuy 
member for 11.3 years, 111 visits, last login: 16 days ago
updated 1.8 years ago
 Ottawa,ON
 $1 per month about 1 days "Great price, great features, supports SIP profile for ATA/PBX's" "$50 for SIP Profile, Softphone leaves a bit to be desired" "Great alternative to POTS"
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Have a Cisco Unified Call Manager Express / Unity Express VoIP setup running on a Cisco 2811 ISR and Cisco IP Phone 7941-GE/7961 SCCP end points. Wanted to test out the SIP functionality and see how ready SIP was to replace a home phone line.
The FreePhoneLine.ca softphone leaves a little to be desired, but for $50 up front you can get the SIP profile and dump that into any SIP-based PBX.
Quality has been very good in tandem with a 5 Mbps Teksavvy ADSL2 link.
Ordering process was quick and easy, and no BS. Had a local callable DID in about 20 minutes. All in all, a great alternative to paying for overpriced POTS service.
Just make sure to use your line - it expires if not used in 60 days and your DID is released back for resale.
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Only lines which have not purchased the configuration file will expire. Since you have paid the $50, you do not need to worry about this  | |
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Review by straw
member for 4 years, 1843 visits, last login: a few hours ago
updated 1.8 years ago
- undisclosed location
- Contract price not specified.
- about 1 days
- "Pas cher à moyen terme, qualité de voix excellente, afficheur, boite vocale"
- "rien"
- "Je ne pourrais demander mieux pour mes besoins"
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Ca peut paraître cher en commençant, 50$ pour le compte et 50$ pour adapteur voip, mais a moyen/long terme ca en vaut la chandelle. Plus besoin d'avoir à payer par mois pour une ligne téléphonique résidentielle, c'est super pour le porte-feuille.
Le service a toujours fonctionné lorsque j'en avais besoin alors je n'ai rien à dire la dessus.
J'adore le fait que FPL offre l'afficheur et la boite vocale sans frais!
Je ne conseillerais pas le téléphone par voip à tout le monde ( pas à ma grand-mère en tout cas ), car si vous avez des problèmes, il faut savoir se débrouiller un peu en informatique.
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 Review by oxymoron69
member for 8.5 years, 1438 visits, last login: 18 days ago
updated 1.9 years ago
- Belleville,ON
- $1 per month
- about 1 days
- "fast and easy to get a free voip phone line"
- "needs existing phone# to setup account"
- "great phone service when used with a voip ATA like PAP2T"
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I signed up for the softphone based service and within 5 mins I had a working DID# that I could call and be called from without recurring fees.
This service includes UNLIMITED local calling & free long distance to most cities AND small towns in ontario as well as a few other majors across the country.
Although other providers may not choose to terminate calls with fibernetics.
911, CallerID, voicemail, voicemail to email, visual call waiting, call forwarding (follow me) and any *69 smart-touch type service are included for free. Unfortunately, the service doesn't support fax (likely to prevent abuse).
Support is competent and quick to answer on their self-hosted forum at »forum.freephoneline.ca/
Eventually, bought the ATA config file for $56.50 (total with tax) and a Linksys PAP2T-NA from dell.ca hooked up to my DECT 6.0 gear.
When I bought the config file, I did it on the website through a fully automated system, billed to a credit card, no bullshit, instant transaction.
Sound quality is amazing, no echo or delay, every feature you could want and then some...
Only issue I had was DTMF transmission for IVRs, had to set DTMF to InBand, then it was sorted. I've experienced a few outages (sometimes my fault), but the system handles it in stride and forwards incoming calls to my POTS service when the voip is down.
I've kept my POTS line because it's almost as expensive to have DSL with a dry loop and ditched all the features on it to make it cheaper.
/update/
9 months in, stable as hell and still no bills to pay
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Review by Sharky905
member for 2.6 years, 181 visits, last login: 38 days ago
lodged 1.9 years ago
- Oakville,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- about 1 days
- "Free Phone - what could be better!"
- "Nothing yet"
- "Can't be beat"
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Believe it or not they even have great support - for free! Why not try it. I have used it as both my home phone (with adapter), as well as a second line for the kids (computer based) and never had a problem. Even long distance (if you need it, most of Canada is free) is very well priced.
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Review by Bogtrotter23
member for 3.9 years, 305 visits, last login: 2.1 years ago
updated 2.2 years ago
- East York,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- "Easy to install"
- "Darn Good Company"
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I did not even have to give them money! I just signed up and they gave me a local number! I can go to the website and point the number to loads of places in Canada, and when someone dials the number it rings whatever number I have it pointed to, even if it is thousands of miles away!
So I can dial the number and talk to a relative almost 3000 miles away and it costs me nothing!
They treat me even better than Whistlephone, because they do not make me listen to an ad first, and Whistelphone treats me very well indeed.
The quality of the calls is excellent - sounds just like a landline!
And if I want to call someone else in Canada for free, I just go to the website and change where my number is pointing to. That's it!
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Review by smurphy
member for 2.3 years, 6 visits, last login: 2.2 years ago
lodged 2.3 years ago
- Chatham,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- about 1 days
- "FREE Great sound quality!!"
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Been Using for two years on a Linksys PAP2T never had a problem.
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Review by Stojko
member for 5.5 years, 993 visits, last login: 1.2 years ago
lodged 2.3 years ago
- St John's NL
- Contract price not specified.
- "Free, call quality & reliability good, calls to major cdn cities"
- "$50 one time fee to use it with SIP phone/ATA"
- "Well worth it."
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Freephoneline is a great service ran by Fibernetics out of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. You can get an entirely free phone number out of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary or a few other cities in about 2 minutes and with the ad-supported softphone you can make calls to quite a few cities/towns in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and BC. (see full list »www.freephoneline.ca/cityListing)
For a one-time fee of $50, they offer a configuration file to allow your account to be used with your own ATA or any SIP phone (not restricted to their softphone). They also offer long distance vouchers for various countries - Canada outside the free calling city list is 2 cents per minute. You can also use the free phone number as a number that solely forwards to your main phone number, provided that number is from a city in the 'free calling area' as well.
Customer support is decent - you can't complain too much when it's free, I guess, but it's nothing special. The value for money is undoubtedly excellent - once you pay the one-time $50 fee, you can use this as a home phone solution (again, provided you live in one of the aforementioned cities) and have a larger calling area than your landline, as well as caller ID and voicemail with no monthly fees.
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Review by morph69
member for 11.7 years, 518 visits, last login: 1 days ago
lodged 2.3 years ago
- Penetanguishene,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- about 15 days
- "free free free - did i mention its free?"
- "had one or two minor outages in service"
- "free, uses an ata for a simple one time fee"
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been using the service now foe 6-7 months, buying good voip dsl modem a Thomson 780wl and service has been great - the initial 50 to set up files 30 to port my home number, free included of every feature you could want. I have heard this company slammed on many forums on the internet - but i am a VERY happy customer
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Review by netgear3700
member for 3.6 years, 497 visits, last login: 1 days ago
updated 2.3 years ago
- toronto,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- "good sound quality than italkBB"
- "less feature, a few outages."
- "free service you can't find anywhere else"
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very good free service.
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Review by eastmanblues
member for 2.4 years, 14 visits, last login: 1.1 years ago
lodged 2.4 years ago
- Kitchener,ON
- Contract price not specified.
- about 7 days
- "What beats free"
- "totally dependant on your Internet"
- "Can't Beat Freephonlines Pricing"
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Free Service with a one time charge of $50 for setup file and 1 time charge for Linksys PAP Adapter $50 if you do not have one. Overall not a bad service been using since 2008 Very few problems. Teksupport getting better.
Also the best international long distance rates you cant go wrong with this service.
Check »freephoneline.ca
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