[thelist] VOIP / Project Question

[Norman Bunn]

Have you considered GloPhone (http://www.glophone.com/)?

Norman

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Norman W. Bunn
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Jeff Wilhelm wrote:

>This is a little off-topic, but I need some feedback, so I hope nobody
>minds. It's more on-topic than most of our Friday conversations, so here it
>goes:
>
>OK, so I'm sitting here working and the president of the company calls me
>and needs a solution within a week to this. As he's talking I'm thinking
>"this isn't hard at all," but then we get to the kicker.
>
>So he wants me to buy four laptops, and get VOIP service for each one. You
>know, like Vonage's soft-phone for example, so calls can be placed from the
>laptop and auto-dialing can be done on the desktop, and all that. Not so
>hard. I have Vonage at home, and while I have never used the soft-phone, it
>sounds doable. Then he tells me that the four laptops are going to be
>shipped to Kosovo and the calls will be placed to / from there.
>
>So I have a few questions:
> - Will the laptops work overseas or will I need special plugs?
> - Will VOIP work? I think it should, although the latency may be bad.
> - Is there any way to get JUST the SoftPhone from Vonage? I called and they
>couldn't answer that for me. I know you can order the regular service (comes
>with an ATA for home use) and then get the SoftPhone as an add-on, but that
>only gives you 500-minutes per month of SoftPhone usage.
> - Anyone have any other feedback?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Jeff
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