[Asterisk-biz] Voxee.com offers free VoIP calling to those affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

[Mark Phillips]

I arrived in Montgomery, AL about 2 hours ago only to be told that all 
the shelters have at least one phone line installed now (well done 
Verizon and others).

I wish I had know this. I could have used the space in my van for more 
food/radio's/whatever.

At least I can watch TV with the dish in my down time ;0}

Mark (on a stolen Wi-Fi link)


Mark Phillips wrote:
> What about those of us helping out down there?
> 
> I'm leaving this morning for the area to help out in a Red Cross 
> shelter. I'll be installing Asterisk in the Montomery, AL HQ and then 
> deploying some phones in a handfull of shelters. They will all be linked 
> back to the HQ via satellite internet.
> 
> Whilst the main purpose of the setup is to establish comms between the 
> shelters I can see a need for them to make outgoing calls and even allow 
> the shelter occupants to make calls.
> 
> As such there would only be a single account required but its call 
> volume could run into $100's of dollars a day.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Caleb wrote:
> 
>> Dear Community Members,
>>
>> We have been greatly heartened by the ongoing rescue efforts in the
>> light of Hurricane Katrina and would like to do a small part to help
>> those in a way we can.
>>
>> With immediate effect, Voxee will be offering free $1 calling credits
>> to the continental USA to anybody who has been displaced with family
>> members due to Katrina on a limited basis. If your traditional phone
>> lines are down but you have other forms of internet connectivity,
>> satellite, cable, wireless, etc. then you can make use of these
>> credits to keep in touch with friends/relatives during these difficult
>> times.
>>
>> In order to request for the credits, just signup for a free account on
>> our website and email into our support at voxee.com helpdesk system
>> stating the purpose which you will be using the credits for. Remember
>> to put [Katrina Help] as the subject of your email so that we know
>> what the request is about. A member of our tech support team would
>> then manually make the credits upon approval, hopefully within 1-2
>> days or as soon as possible.
>>
>> Call to Community: We hope that this small effort would be able to
>> help those who truly need it and ask that only those who truly need it
>> to step forward and request. After all, we only have limited resources
>> and would really want to see that every bit of the budgetted funds are
>> being put to good use. If we find out that customers are using this
>> scheme for business or other non-related purposes, we reserve the
>> right to remove the free credits.
>>
>> We recognise that the $1 free credit is not much, but it should be
>> able to give callers approximately an hour's worth of calls. If you
>> have a special request to extend more calling credits, do let us know
>> as well.
>>
>> Feel free to email caleb.kow at voxee.com if you have any queries. Thank
>> you for your time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Caleb K.
>> http://www.voxee.com
>> A service of Value Communications Pte Ltd
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Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com