I was in a bind in the US - I needed a way for people to get ahold of me during my visit without having to call my roaming IL cellphone.
I set up a local US SkypeIN number to my Skype account. then I configured auto-forwarding of all my Skype calls to my CellPhone. It's not the cheapest option, but it worked in a pinch... -mike On 6/16/08, Arik Baratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Ira Abramov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A friend of mine is moving abroad, and wanted to keep in cheap contact >> with his friends and fanily in Israel. He tried talking me into >> installing Asterisk at my home for him to be able to do that, but I >> don't want to diving into the maintenance of more equipment and software >> (though he was more than willing to donate all the hardware needed, >> etc). Question is, if there's an Israeli company that provides Packet8 >> or Vonage-like service with an Israeli local line and number? > > Hi Ira, > > I have moved to the US 3 years ago, and I have a system in place that > I believe accomplishes what he wants. > > I've been using www.didww.com successfully for a few years now as a > DID in Israel. Friends and family call my Israeli number and the call > gets routed to my Asterisk box in the US. The cost is very reasonable > (an 077 number is $3/month) and it's a flat rate for up to two > simultaneous calls. > > My termination service for the box is voipjet.com which has a very > reasonable rate for Israel (2c/min LL, 10c/min cell). They say that > they don't want end users to use their services, only carriers; they > didn't kick me out though so I guess that as long as everything is > okay they won't care. > > As for the asterisk box, I'm hosting it on the cheapest Linux VPS > server from www.vpslink.com, and it costs $8/month. I can't run > anything else when the asterisk process is running (it has only 64M > RAM), but it's working like a charm for over two years now. Plus, an > extra box to SSH to in times of need is always nice. I use it to > tunnel out of tough spots on occasion (ssh -N -n -f -D 1080 host) > > My setup allows the following: > > 1. People dialling the DID in Israel, France and the US (coming soon: > Australia) get routed to both my softphone and my US cellphone > (whichever answers first) > > 2. Whenever I dial my own US DID (caller ID...) I get a second dial > tone and after punching a code I can dial anywhere in the world, like > a calling card. > > Downside: I get calls in the middle of the night from MILUIM... don't ask. > > -- Arik > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
