[asterisk-users] Skype for Asterisk???

[Geraint Lee]

Good luck with the N95... my experiences of the N95 and SIP haven't been
great... the phone likes to restart... regularly. Nokia may well have fixed
these glitches by now though. Getting it configured was a bit of a mission
too... and as expected the battery life shoots down when it's enabled...
so... again... good luck, and hope that nokia have fixed all those issues :p
saying that though, to be fair, it did work most of the time, just had to
put up with annoying restarts, sometimes at very inconvenient times... like
when the phone rang.
As for skype, I can see how it could be useful, I've worked with a few
developers who's choice of communication method has been skype (I hate it
myself though!), so being able to let them call a skype number and have it
direct to a real phone would be quite useful.

2009/8/18 Gordon Henderson
<gordon+asterisk at drogon.net<gordon%2Basterisk at drogon.net>
>

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Geoff Lane wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, Remco Barendse wrote:
> >
> >> But then again, who needs Skype for business purposes anyways, i
> >> don't  think there is a huge market for it.
> >
> > Me ... at least in theory! Our cellphones have built-in Skype, so a
> > Skype gateway should give me call forwarding and diversion to our
> > cellphones free of charge.
> >
> > So far Skype as implemented on our mobiles has proved too unreliable
> > period for business use. It seems only available when we can get a
> > 3G/HSDPA signal and even then the system regularly logs us out of
> > Skype and sometimes doesn't log us back in. However, if and when my
> > cellular provider get Skype sorted out on their system ...
>
> I was under the impression that Three (who I guess you're using) placed a
> regular call over their network then "Skyped" it at their HQ - rather than
> have the Skype client actually reside in the handset.. (And I'm suspecting
> their 3G limitation is that they want to use their own 3G network rather
> than pay Orange for the call over their 2G network)
>
> But then again, wifey's just gotten a new Three mobile (N95 - end of line,
> but a cheap deal) It has built in SIP via Wi-Fi and skype, so I might have
> a play with it when I can prise it out of her hands...
>
> It does worry me that I see many so-called business people advertising
> Skype numbers on their business cards, etc. To me it rings of cheapness. I
> can almost always tell when someone calls me using their Skype out service
> - the quality is dreadful, and I end up calling them on their
> regular landline. Cheapskates who can't/won't pay for a decent Internet
> service.
>
> I'm going to ask my customers if they want to be able to call Skype
> numbers, but I'd probably have to charge for it to justify the cost of the
> license(s) required.
>
> Gordon
>
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