2011/5/14 Mordecha Behar <mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il> > One day I was poking around my desktop and found that Ekiga had come > preinstalled. I fired it up and was dutifully impressed with all the "new > and exciting" features they promoted. (This was about 3 versions ago). > I liked that it loaded up the first time quickly and seamlessly, and walked > me through getting my very own free SIP address. > Then when I tried actually using it I discovered to my chagrin that > everybody I know uses Skype. > My account is still around somewhere, and probably still active, but I have > nothing that I can do with it. > Maybe people will migrate from Skype, but maybe not. > > > Actually ekiga is one of the more popular providers that have a sipbroker.com integration.
the result you can call some free 800 (US) numbers directly from your sip account, and any of your friends that use a provider that use sipbroker. On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org>wrote: > >> Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> writes: >> >> > - my friends and family having an account on the service to stay in >> > touch for free >> > - seamless integration into Linux+Android >> > - cheap (compared to any "special" offer I have ever received from >> > long-distance providers) international calls to phones, especially >> > mobile phones, from any country (OK, Europe+N.America+Israel as >> > primary targets) to any other country. >> > >> > If anyone has suggestions, I am curious. >> >> Time to invest development effort into something like ekiga on >> Android? How GNOMEish is it? >> >> Does anyone use it? I realize that out of the 3 requirements above the >> 1st is unlkely to ever be satisfied, at least until the Android part >> of the 2nd is done, but what about the 3rd one right now? Does it >> work? What are the prices like? >> >> Not that I am ready to drop Skype tomorrow, but what *are* the >> potential alternatives? >> >> -- >> Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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