Comments on: New Year’s Roundup: Pick-of-the-Litter VoIP Providers for Asterisk

By: Norm

Norm — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:39:30 +0000

Just an FYI… As of December 2008, Stanaphone no longer exists. I used them for about 2 years, and when their servers were up, the quality was excellent. However towards the end, they would be down for the better part of a day at a time. But, for the average residential user, their service was in the ‘acceptable’ category.

Too bad they didn’t survive…

By: William

William — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:42:19 +0000

How does a business that is about to switch to voip get it’s phone number to stay in the local directory assistance database?

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:42:54 +0000

Moving back to US from Venezuela and plan to use VoIP and maybe one cell phone. Am using Skype now but they don’t allow me to call 800 numbers. Your article was VERY,VERY helpfull but did not comment on 800 outbound calls. Please let me know who allows even at small price. Thanks Lance

By: Mike Stroven

Mike Stroven — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:54:07 +0000

We've had excellent luck with Teliax. The service is more configurable than others we've tried, supports outbound CID control, has excellent support for asterisk including IAX2 protocol connections (which make NAT routing a cinch.) Their $44.95 "corporate plan" offers a toll-free number and incoming fax-to-pdf. Support is available by phone during business hours and very responsive via email as well. For small businesses, this is a great package. [WM: We've had equally good results with Teliax as well. Just a little pricey for non-business use. Thanks for writing.]

By: T.J.

T.J. — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:30:26 +0000

I was just wondering what happened to Voxee as a pay-as-you-go provider? I noticed you seem have voted them off the island. Since I’ve been having alot of problems with dropped calls through them, I was curious if I’m not the only one. It may be time to start looking for a new provider again, I guess.

[WM: Since you asked, we’ve written them three times in the last month about our inability to terminate calls through them FOR MONTHS even though we still get registered using both SIP and IAX. Three strikes, you’re out in our book.]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:23:39 +0000

it would be great if you included which providers on your page http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/providers/ supports outbound CallerID control… thanks for the great work!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:59:35 +0000

Great article as usual 🙂 I have found that I can route multiple axvoice accounts by DID (just the main number, virtuals go where it goes) by appending the DID to the register string: username:password@sip.axvoice.com/4785551212

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:13:41 +0000

Wow…I cannot believe you have done it again. A very well written and concise review of providers. I have both stanaphone and freedigits while I am configuring my new PBX (Thanks again!)and am loving it so far. Still some quirks but hey, nothing is perfect…
Keep it up. I read your articles daily and once I put this into production, I will let you know.
GO NERDVITTLES!