I just cannot understand why people are so obsessed with
VOIP.ms. I will be hard-pressed to find a day that I cannot find any post mentioning
VOIP.ms. True that I used
VOIP.ms myself in the past. But I got fed up with it recently, and I decided to dump it, trying to find a way asking them to refund the credit balance to me, and stick with Google Voice.
* Unlike GV,
VOIP.ms only takes US dollar. Huge inconvenience to non-US people, including Canadians.
* Unlike GV,
VOIP.ms charges tax on top of the rate. Really pissed me off. Not sure whether they keep the tax to themselves. I demand to see the proof that they actually remit the tax they collected to the government.
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VOIP.ms has no free North American calls.
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VOIP.ms is more expensive than GV. Plus, using
VOIP.ms to dial overseas numbers, like China, is much slower to go through. In contrast, in my experience, GV actually is much faster and much more stable.
Maybe the only saving grace for
VOIP.ms is the Caller ID display stuff. But I really don't care about Caller ID. I am not that curious, inquisitive badly enough, like always want to know who called me. I just pick up the phone and answer it, when the phone rings.
Small companies really cannot compete against big companies.
Too bad that GV does not support SIP. But I suspect it is by design. Google ***deliberately*** decides not to support SIP, in order to force people to use the Web/Hangout app to make calls, as it is easier for Google to harvest user data this way. Google has its own share of evil plans to blame - sigh!
( Next topic coming soon - Why are people so obsessed with the Caller ID stuff )