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Review by EssGee See Profile

  • Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $1 per month
  • Install: 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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updated 12.6 years ago

mindabsence
join:2010-04-05
Kitchener, ON

mindabsence

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Config file purchases remove expiration timer

Hi SimGuy,
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

Review by straw See Profile

  • Location: undisclosed location
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
  • Install: 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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updated 12.7 years ago


Review by Sharky905 See Profile

  • Location: Oakville, ON, Canada
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
  • Install: 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 See Profile

  • Location: East York, ON, Canada
  • Cost 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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updated 13 years ago


etrain
@cgocable.net

etrain

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To be able to use it with an ATA is $50 Cdn per year

i thought it was a one time fee of $50?

mindabsence

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one-time $50

it's a one-time $50 fee, only paid once upfront not yearly
Bogtrotter23
join:2009-06-14
East York, ON

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one-time fee?

Thanks for the correction. And I thought I was doing them a favor by giving a positive review. I'll change the wording of the review now.

Review by smurphy97 See Profile

  • Location: Chatham, ON, Canada
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
  • Install: 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 See Profile

  • Location: St John's NL
  • Cost 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 See Profile

  • Location: Penetanguishene, ON, Canada
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
  • Install: 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 See Profile

  • Location: toronto,ON
  • Cost 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 See Profile

  • Location: Kitchener, ON, Canada
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
  • Install: 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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Review by mary2010 See Profile

  • Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada
  • Cost Contract price not specified.
Cheap, easy, free phone number and emergency 911 access
non yet
Awesome but best if you have your own ATA
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I was referred to freephoneline.ca by a friend. We both use voipdiscount.com and i still do. I also use freephoneline for a secondary line. Software works great but better if you have your own ATA.

Free voicemail, free DID #, 911 access...Can't complain. $50 up front for sip access and your set.

Will update as time passes and expirence changes etc. I left Tech support rating at 3 because i haven't needed tech support yet and cannot rate what i haven't tried.

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