IP Call provider

[truelies]

Any good and cheap international call provider? I usually call China, google charge 1.9 cent/min.

[Lavarock7]

Voip.Ms shows 1.0 to 1.2 cents per minute and 1.6 cents per min for premium routing.

You can set up an account, fund it and test the connections. If you don't like it, they will refund. No refunds after you use the service and then add funds a second time. Item #22 at http://voip.ms/tos.php

[QBZappy]

truelies,

You could ask in the Hong Kong forum. Perhaps you can get a local China DID.

[truelies]

truelies,

You could ask in the Hong Kong forum. Perhaps you can get a local China DID.

What's China DID? Is that possible I bring an OBI100 to china, then we can call each other in free between China and USA?

[QBZappy]

truelies,

What's China DID? Is that possible I bring an OBI100 to china, then we can call each other in free between China and USA?

Oh boy are in going to like my reply.

Yes indeed you can do that. A DID is a telephone number some voip service provider will give you when you sign up with them. If the OBi is physically in China then it may not be necessary to research the option of seeing if you can get a local number. If the person hosting the OBi has a regular PSTN line, you should be getting an OBi110 in order to give you the ability to make local calls in China from the USA using the China PSTN line.

You might be interested in reading up in this Chinese speaking forum. There are many OBi users there.
http://www.telecom-cafe.com/forum/

[truelies]

No phone in china. Can I bring a OBI100 to china, connect to internet and get a US google voice number. Then I can call china in US for free? Don't need to buy IP minutes?

truelies,

What's China DID? Is that possible I bring an OBI100 to china, then we can call each other in free between China and USA?

Oh boy are in going to like my reply.

Yes indeed you can do that. A DID is a telephone number some voip service provider will give you when you sign up with them. If the OBi is physically in China then it may not be necessary to research the option of seeing if you can get a local number. If the person hosting the OBi has a regular PSTN line, you should be getting an OBi110 in order to give you the ability to make local calls in China from the USA using the China PSTN line.

You might be interested in reading up in this Chinese speaking forum. There are many OBi users there.
http://www.telecom-cafe.com/forum/

[QBZappy]

truelies,

If your intention is to call USA to China, without using the PSTN service in China, then you don't even need Google Voice. If the called party is going to own the OBi, then you can easily call them via the OBiTALK number to their home.

To give yourself a second method to call, just in case the OBiTALK service is down, I would suggest getting two free sip2sip accounts, and install one account on each OBi unit.  ( https://mdns.sipthor.net/register_sip_account.phtml ) This will give you a fallback method to call them.

It probably takes the same amount of effort to open accounts on sip2sip or Google Voice. You might even consider setting up both sip2sip and GV, giving you three different FREE services to call with.
1) OBiTALK
2) sip2sip
3) GV

You to decide.

[truelies]

Voip.Ms shows 1.0 to 1.2 cents per minute and 1.6 cents per min for premium routing.

You can set up an account, fund it and test the connections. If you don't like it, they will refund. No refunds after you use the service and then add funds a second time. Item #22 at http://voip.ms/tos.php

This not work for a lot of china number in so called 'value' service. I think the quality is very bad.