IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ
1 edit | reply to Dracu
Re: [General] VOIP from INDIA to USA ??
It's quite difficult to answer your question without a lot more information.
Like who will the person(s) in India be calling? You or a many people at several locations etc?
Also given the fact that you don't want the people in India to have tom use a computer makes it more difficult.
Some ideas:
1) Open up two Skype accts. One for you (if all the calls are going to you) and one for the user in India. Then buy Skype phones which can be configured for either WiFi or plugged into a router (preferable the latter for ease of use). Then the user in India can be taught how to dial you up from the handset.
2) Purchase a Packet8 service. They used to sell this service for either $20-25.00 p.m. From an ordinary US Phone the phone line goes into the P8 provide DTA (small box) which plus directly into the router. Nothing could be easier.
The user in India then can call UNLIMITED to any other P8 user or 1,000 minutes a month to any US number.
Note when u look at P8's website www.packet8.net it doesn't mention this overseas service as they do not push it. If you just get the regular unlimited service and then send it to India they will at some point shortly swiitch you over to the 1,000 minutes internation plan and they do NOT provide customer service support. You shouldn't need it though.
I am a P8 user, for 4 years and regularly take my phone and DTA overseas on trips. P8 doesn't seem to mind at all so long as I am not more than 4-5 weeks overseas. Longer and they would just switch me over to the more limited plan as I mentioned. But I can testify to the fact that P8's service is truly plug-and-play. Nothing could be simpler.
Another advantage of P8 is that they use less bandwidth than most VoIP services so a slower broadband service isn't a hindrance. |
