If you need a FXS, Vonage starts at $15. If you want to simply go soft-only, Broadvoice would be a better choice. After the marketing and all the features that nobody uses are thrown out, it comes down to consistency. Broadvoice has had some problems in the past 6 months, Vonage hasn't (that I know of). Vonage makes you throw away your ATA and won't let you reactivate it if you close your account. Broadvoice has free calling to US + 34 countries for a $25 account. I can setup a broadvoice account and have it up and running as quickly as I can click through the order process, login to get my password, and then setup the SIP config on my asterisk box. Vonage...not so much as you have to either activate a brand new "retail" unit or allow them to ship you one. Granted, you can add soft accounts once you have a "hard" account, but soft phone accounts are stuck at 500 free minutes.
Choose your poison... No matter who you go with, there will be pros and cons. I guess by default, I choose Broadvoice, only because Vonage makes it hard to purchase only what I need. There are others out there too, cheaper, better, blah... Its not worth arguing over. They all have outages eventually, piss of a few active mailing-list'ers and suddenly their reputation goes to downhill. Vonage - if you are reading this, stop requiring people to buy a "device" just to get a softphone activated. Also, stop making us buy a NEW device if we decide to disconnect the old device for a while. While your at it, put an unlimited minutes option on your softphones. Look at Broadvoice's plans! Broadvoice - if you are reading this, please let me register with all your proxies, not just one! Also, stop answering my call just to play some corny message that says my call won't go through. I can reroute the call if you just congest the call invitation. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jonny hashem Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Best Voip provider what is the best voip provider that provides good service ,good voice quality and good rates . any one have an experience with voip providers advice me. Regards; jonny ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
