moschopsPremium
join:2003-12-20
Oakland, CA | I've had good experiences with Sipphone so far, its supported by the softphone Gizmoproject but compatible with all standard ATAs you can by for $50 or less).
I like it because you only pay for what you need, there's no monthly commitment to a calling plan like Packet8 or Vonage. And to my mind all these all-you-can-eat plans just lead to overuse by some people and low end users end up paying for that.
With Sipphone if you only need to make calls that's all you pay for, rates start at $0.019 a minute to all of North America and most of Europe. If you need an incoming phone number to receive calls then pay for just 3 months or 12 months of incoming number ($12 or $35 respectively) - buy as many numbers as you need. So your minimum commitment to try it out can be just $10 for 500 minutes worth of calling and you can go from there if you like it.
And I like that I can go buy my own unlocked hardware and do with it whatever I want - my Grandstream HT-503 lets me do all kinds of cool stuff like being a gateway from SIP to landline or the reverse, and automatic failover to landline service for 911 and local calls (I still have a landline for DSL access).
To be honest I've no idea if Sipphone will be the next SunRocket but they seem to be keeping it low key and not blowing a ton of cash on advertising or trying to hook people into big pre-pay deals that they will probably lose money on. |
