Duane, I think those are great projects (and I use e164.org) but you are still limited to only calling the numbers of people who have listed themselves or of VoIP providers who have listed their customers. With this I am hoping to get enough people in various area codes who have a gateway to provide the ability to call *ANY* PSTN number in their area code. So if grandma knows nothing about VoIP and has an old rotary telephone, you could still call her if someone in her area code signed up to be part of this network. In exchange for providing free call termination they then get to use the network to make their own calls using other people's gateways.
I agree, this is not new, DUNDi-test has been around for a while but it seems to have died out and I wanted to see if more people would get into it if a virtual appliance for VMWare Player could be created that would make it brain dead for people to setup a gateway and join the network. Colin On 10/10/06, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
C C wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm setting up a site (http://www.voipsyndicate.com) to try and get > people who are interested in Asterisk and who have a gateway (even > just a Sipura 3000) to band together to create a network across North > America for free long-distance calling. The site is still being > constructed but if you have some time, please check it out and let me > know what you think of the site and of the idea (not that it is a new > idea, certainly it has been tried before but not with much success). Why not just use www.e164.org? We already have about 23 million numbers accessible over the internet for free. Alternatively those without the need/ability for a computer all the time and just want a SIP device can use www.VoXaLoT.com to achieve the same thing... -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
