[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7970G VOIP phones

[Gregory Junker]

*puts on flame suit*

(bah ignore the other prematurely-sent reply)

Seriously, though. It's not a scam, it's their business model (which is 
shared by many many  companies). The software license is separate from 
the hardware. Always has been. You probably should have known that 
before buying the phone, and a little extra research on this list and 
the Wiki would have told you that.

Just pay the $7 or $10 for the firmware license already, sheesh.

Greg

Bob Willock wrote:
> I just bought a couple of these Cisco 7970G phones and it seems that they
> require a SIP image binary file to load when the phone boots and this file
> updates the firmware of the phone to run in SIP mode. The only problem is
> that Cisco seems to want to profit from the phone sales and then block you
> from using the phone by not allowing downloads of the binary files. What a
> scam!! Has anyone been successful in getting the SIP binary firmware
> update file? If not how did you get your phone working?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
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