Obi200 and 202 discontinued?
SteveInWA:
Quote from: drgeoff on June 11, 2020, 03:25:29 pm
... are even now in a new startup and working on still better units but needing to wait for some restriction on their activities to expire.
That's not gonna happen. There is very little revenue in it. The company would fold, because:
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But the other half of me often thinks that the current and future market for ATAs is too small to recoup the development costs of new ATAs. The future of VoIP is VoIP phones, not ATAs.
The consumer VoIP market in the US is dominated by the cable/fiber service providers, which use integrated modems/routers/ATAs ("MTUs" or "Gateways"). The business VoIP market is growing and dominated by IP phones. The pure-play service providers like Vonage and Phonepower, who still use stand-alone ATAs, are a dying segment.
I believe that, if it wasn't for people hearing "get free phone service from Google - just buy this box", then there would be virtually no consumer DIY market for ATAs.
Moonwalker:
I just picked up a brand new Polycom 202 for 77.99 including shipping from Ebay. Shop around a bit. They are still out there, still being made, and not all are that expensive. GOOGLE IT.
As far as support, my experience has been that the grunts that answer the phones or whatever never know as much as I can figure out on my own with just a little poking around. I was once told there is no support for distinctive rings. Bull! I have it working on my service. Do some poking around. These boxes are stupid easy to set up without any direct support at all.
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