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New Betamax Clone Telbo.com Unlimited Calls for $9.95/year

Coupled with any of the various "unlimited" DID products from future-nine/vitelity/callcentric/les/voip.ms, this sounds like a great deal to me!
Can you set the outgoing CID number with the betamax products? All the silly promo-crap from their other companies always seemed like a PITA to me so I never bothered.

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Are we positive this is actually Betamax? who is Dellmont?

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where can I find the SIP addresses? Do I need to download the client and sniff the packets?

Also, the configuration options all seem to be client-side, the web interface is, well, sparse.

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Yes.... their unlimited world "subscription" is for 40 countries (including japan)...
Every 30 days - $ 5.95
Every 90 days - $ 15.95
Every 365 days - $ 59.95

and for unlimited US, it includes us/canada/guam/PR...
Every 30 days - $ 1.00
Every 90 days - $ 2.50
Every 365 days - $ 9.95

I'm going to set up a virtual mastercard number with a $10 limit and give it a shot... I'm not so hot on sending my credit card to who knows who...

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Although Betamax uses every imaginable name under the sun, this "Dellmont Sarl" company does NOT seem to be related to Betamax.

DO please note however, these items on their webpages:

"A connection of 3,9 dollarcent applies to NON-Free calls to mobile and landline phones." [What does that mean? Does it mean $ 3.09 ??]

"**Telbo reserves the right after a certain amount of calls to start charging the default rate."

"...calls are rounded up to next minute..."

So please do let us know how it works for you.

On second thought, for now I'm going to wait... I'm only spending about $1.50/month on outgoing anyways through voip.ms and f/9... I just don't use it that much, hence dropping vonage

LaDude, please try it out for the rest of us and if it works out for you, i think there is an entry on the voip-info wiki for all the betamax-like companies, maybe you can add this one...

PXE, maybe Dellmont Sarl is a reseller of betamax? hmm...

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In which case it would mean 3.9 cents.

from the FAQ:

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Calls will be charged at the applicable tariff for the destination you are calling. Rates are in ¢ per minute and calls are rounded up to next minute. Apart from that there are no other charges; no subscription, registration, or administration fees! If you make a phone-to-phone call you will be charged a 3.9¢ starting fee.

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Just enter your phone number and the destination number and press "Call!". Your phone will start ringing, pick it up and wait for the other side to pick up as well. Costs for calling your phone number and the destination number are settled via your Telbo account.

You will be charged the regular Telbo rates as advertised on our website + a small connection fee. rates as advertised on our website.

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Dellmont runs a similar service called ActionVoip as well.

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Telbo terms of service:

Unreasonable Use

1. It is unreasonable use of Telbo Services where Your use of Telbo Services is reasonably considered by Telbo to be fraudulent or to adversely affect the Telbo Network or other Telbo customers' use of or access to a Telbo Service or the Telbo Network.

2. It is unreasonable use of the free calls is reasonably considered by Telbo to be fraudulent or to adversely affect the Telbo Network or other Telbo customers' use of or access to a Telbo Service or the Telbo Network.

3. It is unreasonable use of the VoIP-In numbers where it is reasonably considered by Telbo to be fraudulent or to adversely affect the Telbo Network or other Telbo customers' use of or access to a Telbo Service or the Telbo Network.

4. It is unreasonable use of a Fair Use Promotion where Your participation in a Fair Use Promotion is reasonably considered by Telbo to be fraudulent or to adversely affect the Telbo network or another Telbo customer's use of or access to a Telbo service or the Telbo network.

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What the hell...I bought 1 month subscription for $1.00 + $0.50 handling free. Unfortunately, the service seems to work through their softphone only. I success registered to their sip server using X-Lite but I cannot make a call. $9.95/year isn't bad but without sip service, it's almost useless!

Are you following their European style rules:

"Please note that when you call a number (even if it's local) you should always dial 00 + countrycode + areacode + subscriber number"

Hence: 001 comes before US/Canadian area code?

I ran into this recently with Nymgo.