Voip providers

[Boondoklife]

I am currently using skype for my home line, but want to move to a plain sip/voip alternative. My main want for this is I have inherited a couple of WM phones and they support sip. So I am looking to get away from using computers to talk and use these with a sip provider.

I went looking through the forums to see what people recommended for a voip provider, surprisingly the newest (relevant) posts look to be back in last year. If you are currently using a setup like this please let me know what you have for a provider and how much it costs a month.

Thanks.

[whiskeylover]

Vonage - unlimited international calls to over 60 countries.

[ubunterooster]

Been using ooma for a while. I like it but hope I never need to contact support.

Startup: $200-290 (depending were you buy and if you keep old number)
Yearly cost: $0
Support: ummm...yeah, poor spot
Quality of product and service: excellent
http://www.ooma.com/sites/all/themes/ooma/img/logo_ooma.gif (http://www.ooma.com/)

[Boondoklife]

Unfortunately neither of these services will do what I want, at least at a reasonable price. Vonage only gives out sip to business accounts and sip is none existent through ooma (quite the same dog and pony dance as skype).

Any one here actually have a small setup similar to what I am looking for?

[Rainstride]

they do make hardware phones that have built in skype support. http://shop.skype.com/phones/cordless-router/rtx-dualphone-3088/

[mobilediesel]

I am currently using skype for my home line, but want to move to a plain sip/voip alternative. My main want for this is I have inherited a couple of WM phones and they support sip. So I am looking to get away from using computers to talk and use these with a sip provider.

I went looking through the forums to see what people recommended for a voip provider, surprisingly the newest (relevant) posts look to be back in last year. If you are currently using a setup like this please let me know what you have for a provider and how much it costs a month.

Thanks.

I use Callcentric (http://www.callcentric.com/). I pay $2.95 per month for unlimited incoming calls and use Google Voice to dial out.

If you're just looking to use sip phones to talk to each other, you don't even have to pay for a real phone number and can just sign up for a couple free accounts.

[sdowney717]

www.voipvoip.com

works for me.
incoming calls are free
outgoing cost 1.9 cents per minute
$6 for a phone number per month

[EarthMind]

I've always used voipraider but haven't used it with a SIP supported phone yet but I read somewhere on the website that this is possible. I have no idea whether Voipraider is the best solution though. I just got used to using it.

[Boondoklife]

For anyone that is interested, my desire to use a WM phone for this venture have pretty much DIED. It appears that there is not a way to add codecs to the device for the dialer usage. With this in mind, the only option is G711 which is not the best choice when it comes to bandwidth.

I guess I will just stick with the discontinued Skype application for now, or at least till a better solution comes along.

A couple of things to note:


I don't want to use another dialer to make the sip calls, only real reason im trying to get away from Skype.
I wanted to use a device that allowed interoperability between cell and voip when it concerns my contacts and the dialer interface. Windows mobile does provide this to a certain extent but they have dropped support for it. I wonder if the big telcos had anything to do with this decision.