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Sally Calling Back Home

Started by chatterbox, December 07, 2011, 06:53:10 AM

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chatterbox

Hello,
I am a new Obi110 user, a total novice to VOIP and anything techie,
so please bear with me.
I looked at your video on obitalk.com where sally travels overseas and calls
back home for "free".
Question: What is Sally's set up at her overseas locale? it seems she's using
a cordless phone, but specifically, what is her phone connected to?
Is she using a ObiApp or ObiTalk? What/whose number did she dial to call her Mom
or her friend Larry?
Thanks

RevKev

Sally's cordless phone base is plugged into the phone port of her OBi. Her mom also has an OBi so Sally calls her mom OBi to OBi (a 9 digit number).

If her mom has an OBi110 hooked up to a standard phone line through a telco, Sally can call OBi to OBi and then have her mom's OBi bridge a call over the telco line to any telephone number. So Sally can call her mom's OBi from Europe to the US and have her mom's OBi bridge her call to any US number for free (i.e. Larry).

Of course, there's a lot more you can do with it. The OBiApp/OBiON is for PCs, cell phones, ipods, ipads, etc. to connect to an OBi over the internet/wifi (data not cell minutes)

chatterbox