[Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice

[dhickman at its-my.net]

Broavoice has their problems but to tell the truth, every time i have had
a problem, i called them ans it was resolved.  This is a better track
record than with the PSTN providers.

I personally use Broadvoice as incoming and an secondary outgoing.  I use
voicepulse for my outgoing since they allow gsm.  But once broadvoice
allows gsm I will be using them for outgoing.

I hope you enjoy this

dhh




>> are they really /unlimited/ in the truest sense of the word ?
>> US$24.95, even if it's only for unlimited calls to Malaysia
>> (where i am) seems very, very attractive. when something is this
>> attractive, i start looking for the catch.
>
> AFAIK, no one offers truly unlimited service.  Companies differ greatly in
> openness of the contractual details.  I subscribe to "unlimited" (POTS
> domestic US) long distance from SBC.  The contract clearly states that
> monthly usage exceeding 5000 minutes is billed at $0.04 per minute.  Not
> cheap, but it won't break you if go a little over.  At the other extreme,
> there are many horror stories of Vonage customers whose service was
> terminated, without warning, for excessive usage.  Broadvoice appears to
> be
> somewhere in between.  I am considering their service, and called them to
> ask about allowed usage.  They would not disclose their limits, but when I
> mentioned that my calls typically run 2500-3000 minutes per month, mostly
> to
> the US, they said that this was well below their "alarm" levels.
>
> There may be a technical problem with Broadvoice for your application.  I
> suspect that all calls proxy the media stream through their server (in the
> US).  Perhaps a Broadvoice customer can confirm or deny this.  If that's
> the
> case, the roundtrip delay on your calls to Malaysia will include *four*
> hops
> across the Pacific (~400 milliseconds).  If there's any echo, it will be
> very disconcerting.  Even if not, you'll have problems when both parties
> start talking at about the same time.  You can use their free trial offer
> to
> see if the delay is bothersome.
>
> --Stewart
>
>
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