Hi Roy, You might find that the extreme bursty nature of GPRS/EVDO will be enough to whack VoIP. VoIP is very sensitive to jitter, you can increase the jitter buffer but this increases the latency on the call.
Also I remember that Telus terms of service prohibit VoIP on their data networks, and I believe that they go out of their way to limit their customers scope (as they prefer to charge for voice services). All the providers have data only packages, however they're quite expensive. Work are looking at a CDMA modem (Airlink Raven) on Telus Connect 100 package, if that's any help. A better (cheaper?) way might be to get a voice package which would give you free calling to a 'friend' number.... that friend just happens to be a DID (pstn -> sip connection point). A DID can be 'got' for $5 per month and looks like any other/normal number.... Simon. On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:19:04 -0700 "Royce Souther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone working with a data only cell phone to connect to an Asterisk > server? > > I want to look at getting a Linux based phone that will let me SIP to my > Asterisk server over a data only connection like EVDO or 1X where EVDO is > not available. > > I am looking at this phone that may do what I need. > http://cgi.ebay.com/GSM-WiFi-802-11b-g-Smart-Cell-Phone-PDA-VOIP-Linux-MP3_W0QQitemZ120179941104QQihZ002QQcategoryZ32233QQcmdZViewItem > > I think Bell has a data only package. Does anyone have details about such a > service? > > Has anyone set this up? What equipment are you using? The > http://www.openmoko.com/ is not ready for sale yet but I would like to here > from anyone that has seen it what they think it. > > -- > You need music, music needs you; but the RIAA we'd all be better off > without. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
