[Leaplist] VOIP provider recommendations

[Kyle Gonzales]

Thanks for the input.  Interestingly enough, my first recommendation was
to use Broadvoice.  How long ago did you use them?

An interesting factoid: so far, none of the people I have talked to have
recommended the same thing. :)

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:25 -0500, Tom Parker wrote:
> Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> > I have been using Vonage for about 18 months.  Service is ok, but I am
> > frustrated by the lack of real phone equipment and of course, a lack of
> > open standards.  Vonage's only "phone", the Uniden model, is close to
> > being discontinued and you can't even buy it from Uniden anymore.
> > Looking for recommendations for another provider, so that I can pick
> > from standard SIP phones and such.
> 
> I use Vonage at home.  While they are proprietary, they are reliable.
> 
> I also use Teliax for business.  So long as you understand how to 
> optimize a router/firewall for VoIP, you are fine.  They lack quite a 
> bit on features as compared to Vonage, but if you put an Asterisk box 
> into the mix, your feature list expands exponentially and so does the 
> skill level required to set it up.
> 
> Long story short,
> 
> If VoIPexpertise <= Novice
> 	use Vonage
> else
> 	use Teliax
> 
> Please, for the love of all that is good, never use Broadvoice.  I 
> nearly lost my mind over how bad the service is.  I've also had some 
> problems with VoicePulse, but I only used their service for a couple 
> hours so my opinion might not be well qualified.
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Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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