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Witel.Com Voip Review For Wifi Voip For International Calls
Witel.Com Voip Review For Wifi Voip For International Calls
Have you dreamt of making free international calls while you are driving or even walking on the street? If he response is positive, your dream might just become a reality with the advent of Witel. Witel is a Wifi based free international calls provider. However, many people wonder if it is worth it. We are already aware about Wifi based mobile VOIP providers such as truphone, Defi Mobile that offer similar free international calls packages. So, what is it that makes Witel different or great?
The services of Witel will enable you to route your calls over Wi-Fi networks. In other words, it means that you can be located in any corner of the world and still be able to use the services of Witel. All that you will require will be a Witel phone and you to be within the vicinity of a Wi-Fi network. There is no requirement of a computer or a dedicated Internet connection. It is believed that a Wi-Fi connectivity is advanced countries is not an issue but the facility is not so advanced in the regions such as the Indian sub-continent and most part of Africa. The Wi-Fi scene is lags behind in these regions.
Witel has developed a mobile VOIP phone by the name “Jetter.” This new VOIP phone services allow you to make and receive calls using any of the available Wi-Fi networks. The process to use Jetter is very simple. You are just required to turn it on and enter your Witel phone number and password. It will automatically begin sniffing for Wi-Fi networks available in the surroundings. Once a Wi-Fi network is detected and you are connected to it, the phone is ready to be used. The Jetter phone cost you only $59.99. It is a onetime cost that you need to pay.
All Witel users are assigned a unique 7 digit Witel Virtual Number along with a 10 digit phone number. The numbers can be chosen from over 20 different countries. The number is a geographic number and anyone can call you from anywhere using a normal PSTN or a Mobile phone. This is irrespective of the fact of where you are.
At present, Witel offers two calling plane that are priced at $9.99/mo and $19.99/mo respectively. Plan priced at $9.99.mo allows its subscribers to make Witel to Witel calls for free. The call are allowed anywhere in the world. Plan priced at $19.99 allows to receive free incoming calls from anywhere in the world. In addition to these plans, Witel offers some standard value added features and services such as voicemail, international call forwarding, and global directory assistance.
I personally believe that Witel already has an alternative available in the market. You need to use the old mobile VOIP software Fring or Nimbuzz to avail this facility. Just install one of these software on your mobile and you are ready to make call anywhere in the world. Another benefit of this VOIP facility is that you can switch to other VOIP service providers in case you want to make calls to other PSTN or Mobile phones in the world. Similarly, you can also port an incoming number via SIP to get incoming calls. In my opinion, Witel intended to capture the market share of the people who are completely novice about the mobile VOIP scene. But a new mobile VOIP user would shy away from the services of Witel unless the company offers outgoing calls to PSTN/Mobile at reasonable rates.
If you are also a Witel customer, please provide us with your review and feedback.
ActionDial.com – Voip Calls To UAE through VPN Secured Voip Service
ActionDial.com – Voip Calls To UAE through VPN Secured Voip Service
We recently talked about sites and various ISPs blocking the VOIP in UAE. Today we will talk about Actiondial, a new player in the VOIP market in UAE. It seems to be a good solution for the blocking problem in UAE. Actiondial is a new UAE based VOIP Provider. The company, Actiondial seems to be offering a secure VPN based VOIP solution that enables you to make cheap international calls.
Etislat and many other ISP’s in UAE region have always been against the usage of VOIP. The usage of VOIP compels many users to switch to VPN based VOIP. Some players in the UAE market such as Hotspotshield and Kongshare may work for some users but the services provided these players are still not reliable for many. I believe Actiondial.com has the same thought while designing this new VOIP solution.
As per the information that I have received, Actiondial is offering the rate of 1.5 cents per minute to make a call to India. Unfortunately for many users, the calling rates page of Actiondial is only available for the registered users of the Website. So, to be able to check the rates, you first need to register yourself. The advertisements of the company have the call rate of 2.5 cents per minute for making calls to India. However, at the present moment, the company is running a promotional campaign that allows the users to make calls to India at the rate of 1.5 cents per minute. I am not sure about how long the promotional campaign will last.
Currently, the company is offering two options to overcome the UAE VOIP Block. First one is Actiondial Broadband 2 Port Voice Gateway. To avail the benefits of the plan, you must have bought over $500 worth of calling credit. Only then the company offers you this device for free. The device contains Plug and play and a built-in VPN and it is ideal for blocked environments. The second option is Actiondial VPN Dialer-SIP Softphone. This softphone is a free SIP based softphone dialer that has a built-in VPN. This may help you overcome your issues while you are using it in UAE.
If you want to test the services, the easiest option is by using the VPN dialer provided by the company. In any case, one must consider a few things before finally signing up for the services of Actiondail. The company seems more like a reseller or a spin-off service that is using the betamax as backbone. Most likely, the company builds off actionvoip platform. Actiovoip is not a betamax service, it is only based in UAE. (I am unable to disclose the name of the person for certain security reasons.) There are no security settings available on the Website. However, when you ping sip.actiondial.com, you do get a response.
When you
ping sip.actiondial.com [208.43.87.196] with 32 bytes of data, reply from 208.43.87.196 is bytes=32 time=220ms TTL=111, reply from 208.43.87.196 is bytes=32 time=219ms TTL=111, reply from 208.43.87.196 is bytes=32 time=219ms TTL=111, and reply from 208.43.87.196 is bytes=32 time=220ms TTL=111.
It is always advisable to go slow when purchasing credits. One must only buy a few dollars and test the VOIP services before going all out to buy more.
If you are using Actiondial, let us know about the overall voice quality, prices, and so on.
Ecessa – Voip Wan Failover, Wan Configuration, IP Load Balancing at affordable rates
Ecessa – Voip Wan Failover, Wan Configuration, IP Load Balancing at affordable rates
VOIP is well known among its people and businesses for offering their products and services at affordable prices especially to small and medium businesses, one such company is Ecessa, gained its popularity for offering the best VOIP service to their customers.
Ecessa has recently launched the ClariLink family of WAN link controllers offers balance load and failover capabilities for network traffic to its small and medium enterprises. The IT administrators are allowed to spread SIP traffic across various Wide Area Networks (WAN) or the networks of various service providers and in any case there is any failure or any interruption in the VOIP solution then without any interruption the call automatically gets transferred to another line.
The Director of Technical Services at Ecessa – Mr. John Addington had commented that Ecessa aims at improving the performance and quality of VOIP communications by introducing WAN link controllers as one of the best VOIP solutions on May 12 which provides SIP traffic across multiple WAN links which gives surety of higher reliability to its end users however a limitations was found that the SIP traffic led to a lot of failover. In case of any interruption in calls the customer can continue with the calls only if the number is redialed which is a very time consuming process.
Ecessa has designed best VOIP service in such a way that it acts as a front end controller and helps in managing the WAN links. It is capable enough to offer redundancy in link connections and automatic failover.
The key purpose of ClariLink is to manage their voice networks and provide quality services to their customers by providing offer effective solutions for small and medium firms. Network traffic is distributed among various network and satellite links by this service. It can be best used for business by the use of best VOIP solutions so as to provide cost effective services to their customers and would not be concerned about the failovers as calls would be automatically delivered to another link.
This service also integrates their voice systems with various data, multimedia and other interactive methods and devices which is certainly one of the best VOIP services that helps small and medium businesses in generating more revenue and would be launched third quarter of 2009.
GrandCentral Voip Is Now Google Voice
GrandCentral Voip Is Now Google Voice
GrandCentral, a phone management service which was first launched in 2006 and was
acquired by Google in year 2007 hasn’t been in the news much lately.
Google has finally rebranded GrandCentral into Google Voice after a very long time. GrandCentral is a powerful VOIP integration service . It is a service integrating flexible Internet-based voice calling and routing features, voice mail, text messaging and other applications.
This move of Rebranding GrandCentral into Google Voice would really open up multiple avenues for google in the coming years mainly in the integration space. It would rather be interesting to see if they would integrate Google Talk into Google voice or they would add Google voice to Google talk.
Unlike other VoIP and Internet-based voice applications, Google Voice is mainly based on a centralized voice calling and messaging system which enables users to use any phone to call into a system that allows them to initiate other calls and functions. The offering is being seen as a challenge to Skype, though it also ups the competitive ante for telcos and other voice service providers that have been exploring new ways to offer voice or to integrate it with other applications.
Below listed are few of the salient features of Google Voice.
Google number – One number for all your calls and SMS
It has a distinguishing feature of announcing and screening callers
It has the feature of Listening before taking a call
It Keeps unwanted callers at bay
It sends, receives, and stores SMS
It Calls US numbers for free
It Answer on any of your phones and add phones and decide which ring
Google voicemail – Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts
It reads what your voicemail says
It checks online or from your phone
It Receives voicemails via email or SMS and Forwards or downloads voicemails
Voice features – More cool things you can do with Google Voice
Enables to Join people into a single call
It Records calls and store them online
It helps to view your inbox from your mobile and check directory assistance
It sets preferences by group
One of the important feature of Google Voice is obviously allowing totally free calls any USA number including mobile.
Also the quality of the calls doesn’t change with Google Voice. Getting your calls through Google Voice won’t affect call quality or reception, since you’ll still be taking calls from your existing phones.
Currently at this stage, Google voice is restricted to existing GrandCentral users only. However, if they open up the doors to this existing VOIP service to anyone anywhere in the world , one can leverage the benefit of having one number for call management.