slow mo
join:2002-03-19
USA | reply to BruceN
Re: [VoiceStick] CODE number for FREE $10 for BETA test of MyGlo
How long does it take to get the email? It's been 20 minutes. |
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cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD
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| said by slow mo  :How long does it take to get the email? It's been 20 minutes. Check your junk mail.
My setup was successful but I did not get the confirmation. I then found it in my junk mail. I never noticed anything from Voicestick ending up there. I was able to log on.  |
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slow mo
join:2002-03-19
USA
1 edit | No. It's not there either. Come on, my credit card was charged 2x$10 (1 x error, 1 x no email).  |
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SRFanInMD
join:2005-03-26
Owings Mills, MD | reply to BruceN
FYI...I resigned up - got the number - logged into my account and enabled the bridge with my cell. When I call the VS number I get a voicemail box with a very long extension. Any ideas? |
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mazilo
From Mazilo
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join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
| reply to slow mo
said by slow mo :No. It's not there either. Come on, my credit card was charged 2x$10 (1 x error, 1 x no email). May be MyGlo had detected your account is a SLOW Mo and decided to put the process in the queue? |
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drofli
join:2004-02-22
Lakewood, NJ | reply to BruceN
Bruce,
Worked OK this time. Received confirmation email immediately.
Thanks
Barry |
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slow mo
join:2002-03-19
USA
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said by mazilo :said by slow mo :No. It's not there either. Come on, my credit card was charged 2x$10 (1 x error, 1 x no email). May be MyGlo had detected your account is a SLOW Mo and decided to put the process in the queue? You're right!!! Finally got it after 40 minutes.  |
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pete42
join:2008-02-27
Kalamazoo, MI | reply to sumdum
Thank you Bruce MyglobalTalk beta works great. I have changed
my Voicestick dialer software number to MyglobalTalk number and password, workes great. |
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA | reply to mazilo
Mazilo,,,, now thats funny.
Just got back from lunch. (FREE) El Pollo Loco is now in Georgia!!!
Leap day... Go figure |
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA
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| reply to pete42
pete42, I never read this post
Remember, at some point they will cut off the usage of the softphone, ATA, Asterisk and what ever. That will come later when the cut over happens |
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA | reply to slow mo
Slow Mo Sorry..... |
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pete42
join:2008-02-27
Kalamazoo, MI | reply to BruceN
Than you Bruce MyglobalTalk works great. Ihave changed number and password on my Voicestick dialer to MyglobalTalk nuber and works perfect. |
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mazilo
From Mazilo
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join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
| reply to BruceN
said by BruceN :Just got back from lunch. (FREE) El Pollo Loco is now in Georgia!!! Bruce,
Please just don't go loco after the crazy chicken meals you just had. If the virus on a Mad Cow disease can have some effects on a Pollo, I would say El Pollo Loco is definitely not a good deal even though it is free. May be, someone would come out with a franchise called El Vaca Loco and see if the sales will pick up! LOL
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA
·Future Nine Corpor..
·AT&T U-Verse
·Comcast
| Well it was a free meal from the programmers, never to be done again until another leap day comes along....
And I wanted Mexican food, and the programmers said they wanted to eat at the Mexican phone company, Taco Bell.....
Oh never mind |
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drofli
join:2004-02-22
Lakewood, NJ
| reply to BruceN
When I call from my registered cell phone, all works well. From any other phone, I can get the calls from my number with global call forwarding enabled.
If I disable forwarding, the answer I get is that nobody is available to take the call. Is that the way it is designed to work, or am I missing something? |
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA | If I am understanding this question. It sounds like a voice mail not enabled issue |
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Elecconnec
join:2008-02-21
Littleton, CO
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Well, I tried it on my Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC Phone (An HTC Wizard.)
The SMS to get the download link worked fine [but the whole "text us for a link" thing bugs the hell out of me b ecause I'm cheap -texts costs me $0.15 each way, and I think using texts from an advanced smartphone setup with a half-dozen e-mail accounts including push e-mail is just redundant! Why not offer a link to download directly from the phone browser? I remember my bank, Wells Fargo, made us send a text to receive the URL of their new mobile banking site. It cost me $0.30 for them to send me a text saying:"wf.com"! They couldn't have just said "enter wf.com in your phone's browser" on the website?]
Anyway- my first usage report: I ran the app, and for testing, I set it to use the bridge for both international AND domestic LD (I realize I, like virtually everyone else in the US, already gets free domestic LD as part of my cell plan, but I didn't have anyone overseas to call right now, so I figured I'd eat a little of your generous free balance for testing purposes!)
I ASSUME the application is supposed to intercept my outgoing calls and replace the number dialed with my bridge number, a few pauses, and the number I actually want to dial. It does do that, but it's so slow my phone actually connects to the number I dialed directly, first, let's me talk for 10-15 seconds, then the app kicks in by hanging up on me, and then redials using the bridge!
I think the app is a cute idea, but needs a lot of work!
Also, if humanly possible, (although with Windows Mobile it may NOT be!) get the programmers to figure out a way NOT to need a reboot between settings changes. WinMo is a lot like desktop windows- rebooting is often a 2 minute process before the phone is actually functional!
So, the software is a neat idea (automating the bridge function) but it just isn't ready for prime-time yet.
Other than that, it seems to work fine so far- the calls connected and sound quality was indistinguishable from an ordinary cell call.
As the serivce moves forward, are you considering making it two way? (Meaning bridging calls to the MyGlo bridge number to the phone for a per minute fee, Grandcentral-style.)
This way you could use the service when overseas to avoid roaming charges. For example, if I go to the UK, rather than pay $1/min to use my cell with roaming, I could buy a local UK SIM, change my MyGlo bridge number to my new prepaid UK number so US calls could connect to me for the $0.20 or so MyGlo VoIP to UK mobile rate instead of my carriers' $1/min roaming rate.
While we're on the Windows Mobile topic- if you really want to make friends with WinMo users, get your friends at SJLabs (the guys who make the Voicestick Softphone software) to get a version working for modern WinMo phones. (Their last stable version is 4 years old and works crappy with the last 2 releases of Windows Mobile.)
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA
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| Thanks for the report. It is my understanding that the next version is close at hand
I will have the wiz kids read everything you said except for the Windows reboot issue. If we could figure out how not to reboot Windows... Well we would be gods.
Great input. I may decide to credit you the 15 cents.....
Bruce |
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Elecconnec
join:2008-02-21
Littleton, CO
| said by BruceN :Thanks for the report. It is my understanding that the next version is close at hand I will have the wiz kids read everything you said except for the Windows reboot issue. If we could figure out how not to reboot Windows... Well we would be gods. Great input. I may decide to credit you the 15 cents..... Bruce Don't sweat it- what's 15-cents between friends?  Besides I understand the reasoning- a download link on the website might confuse people, since they might think it's a download meant for a PC rather than a phone. The eventual solution would be a mobile version of the site (i.e. "mobile.myglobaltalk.com" that would allow access to the My Account portal and downloading the software from the handset.
Besides- while I'm certainly a WinMo zealot, there are plenty of Winmo-based VoIP solutions right now. The real push at the moment needs to be aimed at the iPhone. Since Apple doesn't allow 3rd-party apps to be installed on the iPhone, web- and phone-based VoIP workarounds are the only options available. 3rd-party companies like Talkety and Jajah have proclaimed "VoIP has come to the iPhone" simply by offering callback services to connect cellular calls to VoIP networks. (»www.talkety.com/news/; »blog.jajah.com/index.php?/archiv···sed.html)
Pushing the MyGlo option as a way to get VoIP rates on the iPhone will be more news-worthy and sales generating than any 50 Windows Mobile-based options, at least while there's 10 or 11 minutes left of the iPhone's 15 minutes of fame.
iPhone users tend to think that any old idea rehashed for the iPhone is a breakthrough acheivement in technology, so while a cell-to-VoIP bridge isn't exactly a new idea anymore, if it's touted as an iPhone first, it will get blogged about. An iPhone-specific webpage (i.myglobaltalk.com) would be a prerequisite. (As far as I've seen, to make an iPhone-customized webpage, you take any old mobile-type low-res graphics with big-text webpage and give the graphics a black background to match the iPhone's usual color scheme- see »i.talkety.com for an example.)
(Let me apologize now if I made iPhone users sound like they're all simpletons easily distracted by bright shiny objects, but that's how they're being marketed to!)
But a quicky iPhone-centric webpage comparing a few of AT&T Mobility's international rates vs. MyGlo's shouldn't be too tough to throw out there. |
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BruceN
Hi
join:2006-11-17
Roswell, GA | Yeah a rate comparison would be harsh on AT&T.
They are back in the over price LD business again.
I agree on the Iphone thing but for lack of guts I will leave my comments to myself! |
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