Attention AT&T Customers

It may not apply to all areas, but here in Northern California, AT&T has informed customers of 32% average price increases effective 1/21/07. In particular, Caller-ID is going up 29.5% to $7.99 per month. Their WirePro service is going up to $3.99, a 33% increase.

AT&T’s plan asppears to be to drive customers to their bundled offers. By raising the prices of their unbundled services, they hope
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IPKall + PhoneGnome = Free US Wahsington state number for your home phone

IPKall offers a cool service where they provide free Washington state phone numbers that ring to a SIP address. Since PhoneGnome gives your household phone a SIP address, the IPKall service works great with PhoneGnome.

Here’s how to set it up:

Go to the IPcall site: http://phone.ipkall.com/ and click the Sign Up link. You’ll get a screen as follows:

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Five things you don’t know about PhoneGnome

PhoneGnome is Open and Interoperable
We go out of our way to be that way. Open SIP credentials. SIP Calling. ENUM support. ITAD/ISN support. VoIP peering. Nobody does as much to support open standards as we do. We are not a competitor to Vonage (et al), Cable phone service or any of the other VoIP-based “home phone replacement” services
PhoneGnome works with any of these services. We add things
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