Calls made from Romania resid./cell phone to Obi in Romania-Can't get Attendent
Stewart:
Quote from: igroup on January 18, 2012, 08:31:14 pm
I have a Romanian DID setup on a different ATA - for me, incoming is free and for them is a local call.
I am curious: Who is the supplier? What does it cost? Is it a real geographic number or an 031 (national)? If geographic, did you have to verify your address in Romania? If an 031, does that cost more than a geographic number for your relatives to call?
If you make lots of calls to RO mobiles, I noticed that Voxbeam has seems-too-good-to-be true rates to a few of the carriers; if that's what your folks are using, you may want to give them a try.
Also, if you can get a cell plan there with unlimited or lots of minutes for a reasonable cost, setting up a GSM gateway at a relative's home may be your best bet.
jeetco:
Igroup, thanks for your input! Originally my purchase of the Obi’s was simple. Get two obi’s. Connect one Obi in the U.S, the other at my Romania relative’s home and we have free phone calls—that’s it. That was my goal. Little did I know that I would soon be on the road to understanding terms such as DID, PSTN, SIP, SP1, SP2, etc, etc…! The internet connection to the Romania apartment is a cat-5 cable coming into the apartment from a router somewhere in the building. They can only connect the cat-5 to the computer and then they have to run the proprietary internet company software on the computer to request the internet connection. So, the Obi could not be installed there. We then decided to install the Obi at his own office because he has a router set up there. So now we make calls from my U.S-obi to the Romania-office-Obi to the Romania-apartment or cell. My relative get’s charged the local call charge made from Romania-office-Obi to Romania-apartment (charges not known yet, will find out when the bill shows up). Calls at this time cannot be made from Romania-apartment to Romania-office-Obi to U.S-Obi simply because Romania-office line does not have caller ID. –Hope this clears things for you.
Just as Stewart asked, who is the supplier of your Romanian DID, what does it cost? etc.
…and just as Stewart suggested, a GSM gateway would be an answer…to have it the relatives home.
Stewart, thanks for turning me onto Voxbeam!!—you are a Rockstar!!!—the rates are truly CHEAP. And they are cheap to India -- another place of interest for me to make calls.
So, question to you my friend, how do I set up Voxbeam to work on Obi??!!—is it similar to Localphone?
I will be setting up Localphone on the U.S-Obi tonight. Will let you know how it all goes!
jeetco:
Stewart! Success!!
I set up the Localphone just as you asked me to--My relative called the local phone number (in romania) associated with my iNum and the call came thru to me, in the U.S, with NO charge to me. Now, it seems that the local phone number (in Romania) that has been assigned to my iNum could be in the same network as the phone number they are on, simply because they both start with 031...now if they are on the same network then their charge is minimal and after 6pm Romania time, I am told the call is free to them!! My relative will be getting me the call charges once he is able to talk to a customer service agent that has the aptitude to provide him with the info. He actually said it's easier to just wait for the bill and see the charges then. Now that this has been achieved, I am on to my next venture...
1. to set up the Romania-Obi with Localphone or with Voxbeam so they can call their relatives in Greece and Australia....
2. and also setup my U.S Obi to call India and use voxbeam or another service.
carl:
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2. and also setup my U.S Obi to call India and use voxbeam or another service.
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I am a bit confused here thought Voxbeam's discount pricing was only for wholesalers/re sellers ???
Stewart:
Quote from: carl on January 20, 2012, 04:48:50 pm
I am a bit confused here thought Voxbeam's discount pricing was only for wholesalers/re sellers ???
Voxbeam (and also FlowRoute and Bandwidth.com) are like Costco or Sam's Club -- though nominally "wholesale", they have lots of small customers, using the service personally or for their business.
Voxbeam does have a few gotchas. Once you have exhausted the free $1 test credit, the minimum payment is $50. If not topped up, credit expires after one year, so it's only useful if you are spending more than $4 monthly. Also, there is a 2.5% surcharge for payment by credit card or paypal. You can avoid that by using the electronic bill pay service (ACH transfer) that you may have with your bank, broker or credit union.
Voxbeam athenticates by IP address. If yours changes frequently, I have a script that will update the site automatically, which I'll post if anyone is interested.
Voice Gateway 1 is set up in my OBi for Voxbeam. For outbound caller ID of 12123456789, set AccessNumber to SP2(sbc.voxbeam.com;ui=12123456789;op=ns) and also put 12123456789 in AuthUserID. For the PHONE Port DigitMap, add |**3(Msp2) after **2(Msp2) and add to OutboundCallRoute ,{(<**3:>(Msp2)):vg1} after {(<**2:>(Msp2)):sp2}
At this point, it should be possible (from the phone attached to the OBi) to dial e.g. **318004377950 and reach 18004377950 via Voxbeam (if done correctly, the caller ID that you set will be read back to you).
An analogous modification to the AA settings would allow using Voxbeam from the AA, also with the **3 prefix.
To avoid the prefix, you can make additional digit map changes to send calls to specific numbers or certain countries via Voxbeam. Or, set your speed dials to use VG1 as desired.
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