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- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7VOIP over dial up? So your computer uses your existing telephone connection to dial into the internet so you can use your computer and a headset to have a low quality phone conversation over the internet through your existing landline. What next, dialing into an internet provider through voip running on a broadband connection?
- Schrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Link to the service (there's no link in the article - lame!)
http://www.efonica.com/
Sounds interesting. - Mr.Glass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so its like a voip service and calling card in one? wow
- WrecksTXP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Am I the only one that finds this ironic?
- bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You mean the fact that people are going to use phone lines for talking to their friends?
No you're not.
Oh, and by the way, there's going to be a new feature for cellphones added soon- the voice-IM system. You talk into it, it uses speech recognition to translate into words, and speech synthesis on the other end. It'll be just like talking to your friends, but over your phone!
< /sarcasm> - sark666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Because efonica has been built on the SIP protocol, users will be able to avoid using a PC by purchasing standard telephone equipment from established retail outlets such as Radio Shack."
I don't know about the US, but in Canada, almost every single store only sells vonage locked voip adapters. Really bugs me. Certainly at radio shack, best buy, future shop etc, business depo...
Is it the same in the US?
Btw, I read that vonage was going to stop vendor locking their devices, is this true? I can't find the article where I originally read this and wanted to follow up on it and see if it has happened. - Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I found the title pretty ironic.. Go figure, dial up to call people.. man. whats the world coming to? Pretty soon well all have electricity in our homes!
haha... electricity in our homes... thatll be the day.
//More serious note:
This does look like pretty neat tech though, just a comical title is all :) - chrishutchins, on 12/17/2008, -0/+1In countries where the government controls (or is) the phone company, it might be quite a bit cheaper to use dial-up Internet to make VoIP calls... they do mention an additional focus on "emerging markets"
- skipere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the info mattholomew
- colol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True in the US as well. The big boxes are all selling provider-locked hardware.
Even Fry's Electronics, which sells all sorts of geeky esoteric hardware, doesn't sell anything but provider-locked hardware. - schalicto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't understand it and I don't like it. The website doesn't give enough information to make me think it is legit.
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I always assumed that if copper phone cabling could barely carry text at an acceptable rate it would never manage voice, but here it is. Voice over phone lines! This could turn out to be handy....
- mattholomew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check out www.jajah.com instead - you enter the 'from' and 'to' numbers on their site and then it calls you back on whatever phone you want and connects you to your destination. I use it to make very cheap (14 cents/minute) calls to the Phillippines from my US cell phone. No software downloads necessary.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
check those stats...Asia, Africa and Middle East have lowest % penetration and highest growth %.
People in that part of the world still depend highly on dialup and this is what the dialup part of this product is focusing on.
If it works on dialup as they say, then it's better on broadband....
jmho... - arnoldcg, on 05/22/2009, -0/+0Hi
I am agree with your point, i search voip telephone articles, It is really use full articles.
http://www.btxchange.com/articles.htm - tainted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VoIP over dial-up? Just get something like http://www.safercalls.com -- makes more sense than pushing this digital -> analog -> digital -> analog process..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0i just tried it earlier, i wish i can get my special enumber ... 10sweetgina
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