[mdlug] [WLUG] voip service?

Sun Mar 21 11:24:35 EDT 2010

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 10:22 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:12:12 -0400
> "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
> > I just disconnected my AT&T land line and am looking at options
> > for phone service that don't involve my cell phone.  VOIP sounds
> > good, but I'm not sure what all I would need to make it work.
> > Any suggestions for economical VOIP providers that work and
> > play well with Linux?

Ekiga provides a solution, and affordable gateways, and is built up
around the SIP client Ekiga that was originally GNOME Meeting.

It works very well.

> Sorry Carl, posted on mailing list this time.
>    I use Gizmo with my wifi enabled cell handset. It's available alsp
>  o for several different platforms here:
>  <http://gizmo5.com/pc/download/> It appears to have been bought by
>  Google and new user sign up temporarily suspended
>  <http://www.google.com/gizmo5/>