On 10/30/07, JCA wrote: > This does sound plausible - for better > or worse, Skype seems to have more financial muscle than Ekiga at this > point in time.
I would hazard a guess that it is a loss leader for Skype or their partner. By Ekiga you actually mean ekiga.net - which is a spare time project of a couple of people here. ekiga.net gets no financial support from the community that I am aware of (except maybe a small commission from diamondcard - I don't know.) I don't think they asked for any support. ekiga.net is optimised for voip-to-voip calls to build a community around the Ekiga software. voip-to-voip needs much less resources. I have not tried to use the 1800 service through freeworlddialup for a year or two. I do recall difficulties with it. I don't understand why freeworlddialup doesn't have the muscle to keep the 1800 service going consistently. Unlike ekiga.net, it is based in the US. Perhaps they just have other fish to fry, or insufficient phone lines. Therefore my advice would be - if you are in the US, get Asterisk or similar and a line card - and hook it up to your landline. If you are outside the US, 1. try ekiga.net first - if the 1800 number is not reachable by ekiga.net then 2. register with a kind friend in the US with Asterisk, or 3. register with a paid SIP or H323 provider - you can probably get calls to the US, including 1800, for around one cent per minute, but maybe you will find someone willing to throw in 1800 free-of-charge (if you do please let us know.) _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
