 PhoneGnome founder and CEO David Beckemeyer will be speaking at the upcoming Emerging Telephony Conference in San Francisco. The session is Design and Prototyping of Telco Network APIs
Details:
Design and Prototyping of Telco Network APIs
Date: Tuesday, February 27
Time: 1:30PM – 3:00PM
Location: Grand Ballroom F
If you’d
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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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Under Features > Low Cost Internet Calling > Edit there is a new option called [Overrides] on the My PhoneGnome site.
This feature can be used to select the preferred provider on a region-by-region or even number-by-number basis, so you can specify the ITSP (SIP PSTN Termination provider) to be used for each country (or city/area).
Normally
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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:
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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The folks at STL Partners and their very aptly named Telco 2.0 blog identify PhoneGnome as one their “favourite disruptors”.
They say:
PhoneGnome is to fixed lines what WiFi handsets are to mobile.
For much less than the cost of an IMS deployment, you can hand out PhoneGnomes, and build a platform business with far more
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