VoiP provider recommendations

[Nick Estes]

Good providers that interface well with Asterisk are hard to find.  Of 
those around, I've only used iConnectHere (sip) and VoicePulse Connect 
(iax).  The only problem with VoicePulse is they don't yet have AZ area 
codes, but the service has been great for the year or two I've been using 
it, and the price is reasonable too.  ICH has a cheap way to demo it, but 
I wasn't happy with their service at all.  Maybe it's improved since I 
last used it, but I'm far happier with voicepulse, especially due to their 
iax support.

If you're just looking to mess around with voip without spending anything 
and without access to anyone in particular, free world dialup and iaxtel 
are good to use.  I have both of those in my asterisk setup, mostly 
because I can, and also because it has, on a few occasions, been a nice 
cheap way to talk to people.

Of the billions of non-asterisk compatible providers out there, I've used 
Packet8 and Vonage (still use vonage for company phone/fax, until 
voicepulse gets az area codes anyway).  Of the two, my opinion is that 
Vonage's service is a little better, and Packet8's support is a little 
better; although, both are certainly usable.

I'm also interested in anyone else's experience with asterisk compatible 
providers, especially those that do iax.

 	--Nick


On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, der.hans wrote:

> moin, moin,
>
> JD wanna post the recommendations from your slides?
>
> Anybody else have recommendations for or against certain providers?
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>