[asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie

[meetmecall]

Siax is a pretty good working sip and iax2 softphone for the iPhone.  
Easy to connect to your own Asterisk box

If you have an Android phone (I have HTC Hero with Android 1.5)  ASip  
is a good choice. It is working and and calls using umts are working  
surprisingly well.

Erik


They are both available on the markets fot his phones.
On 5 jan 2010, at 22:03, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote:

> Steve-
>
> Got an iPhone but no SIP client that I am aware of.  I just make
> regular calls to other others/receive calls as usual.  Nothing fancy.
> I was hoping to create the fancy stuff in my home here.
>
> As I got to reading I began to see things like "provider", as you've
> said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have
> to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment.
> I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and
> reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose
> the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another
> monthly charge...
>
> I checked the link you provided but no pricing info and I started to
> search on "VoIP Service" and found this, amoung hundreds+ others,
> http://www.whichvoip.com/Cheap-VoIP-Phone.htm  and see monthly charges
> as I feared.    As I said, I was hoping to create it all in-house (not
> have to create an account anywhere or pay fees for fooling around with
> a test setup, etc) but it is beginning to appear that I have not
> researched enough.  Its much bigger an experiment than I had imagined!
>
> Thanks!
> -M
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com 
> > wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote:
>>
>>> CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft- 
>>> phone?  If
>>> so, how can I do that?
>>
>> You need to get an account with a VOIP provider -- someone to  
>> accept your
>> call via the Internet and place a call on the PSTN to call your cell
>> number -- or any other number.
>>
>>> Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box?  I dont know  
>>> if I
>>> have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number?
>>
>> With the same account you can rent a PSTN number. When someone  
>> calls that
>> number, they will "call" your server over the Internet.
>>
>> This is assuming you don't have a fancy-dancy smart phone with a SIP
>> client.
>>
>> I use www.vitelity.net. I don't know their current pricing, but  
>> outbound
>> calls are less than US$0.015 per minute and renting a PSTN number is
>> around US$1.50 per month.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Steve Edwards       sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice:  
>> +1-760-468-3867 PST
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>> +1-760-731-3000
>>
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