Oct 21, 2007 by Umesh
Free VOIP Calls to India
This entry was first posted on my Random thought blog . It is now extended and brought to more natural home.
At present I use Vonage phone in India to call between the India and the USA. I did not think Vonage’s price justified the use I have for the service.
I decided to experiment with other VOIP services. I bought a few unlocked VOIP phones. It was pain to find reasonably priced VOIP phones. Most VOIP phones are targeted towards business users and not home users. At last I ended up with SPA901. I bought it from BestBuy for Business.
I setup FWD and Gizmo for calling between the VOIP only phones. Using FWD I can call out to 411, 1-800 number etc for free. Also I can use Sip Broker to call from normal phone to my SIP phone.
The only thing I cannot do is to call from SPA901 to PSTN phones. For this purpose I subscribed to VoipCheap. VoipCheap service allows limited free calls to multiple destination.
SPA does not allow simultaneous service to multiple VOIP providers. I needed a method to use different service based on destination. Here comes Voxalot. It allows you to define call plan and use different service provider based on extension.
The VoipCheap service does not place any restriction on how many account a user can own. So you can keep signing up new accounts and configuring them at Voxalot as you run out of free credit at VoipCheap. You don’t need to make any changes to the SPA phone in India to activate new accounts @ VoipCheap. If you need call out service to Indian POTS phones. Go ahead and sign up with one of several reasonably priced VOIP service providers and configure appropriate dial plan at Voxalot.