 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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Re: Goggle Voice is great - been using a long time said by fAcEtIOUs:said by dcdeadbeat5:said by fAcEtIOUs: The calls are NOT VOIP. They are thru the regular switched phone network. [att=1] Actually the calls are VOIP. They are just using a web callback system and of course they terminate at the PSTN on both ends. But the call is definitely a VOIP call. There was a hack a while ago that allowed you to use a SIP phone to use Google Voice for free calls. But Google closed the gateway. But at least you can still use it for the web callback number. I don't consider it full VOIP unless the call isn't on the PSTN at all. All Google is doing is using the internet backbone for transport. It is more like Comcast's CDV than it is like Vonage. I would personally consider it VoIP if it goes from my ATA into the modem and out from there, no POTS line here.
That's VoIP to me and I would think the vast majority of VoIP providers out there.
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| Yeah, it's a matter of "perspective". For the person with only a POTS landline, none of his/her calls are VoIP. For the person who only has VoIP service (for example, Vonage or CDV), all calls are VoIP. Whether it's packet-based or circuit-switched at different points in between is irrelevant to the customer (which says nothing about call quality).  |
