![]() *Edit: another bonus is that VoIP.ms is a Canadian company. *Ninjedit: Yeah, about 0.5 MB per minute. That said, there is a dev that has made a texting app specific to VoIP.ms which uses their API and Google cloud services for Push notifications that I've been using and it's being working well - but it's only available on Android, so iPhone will have to stick to the web interface or email option. ![]() They use a web client (not even a mobile app) to manage everything, though you can also do it through email which is cool. Though that is currently a downside: VoIP.ms is not compatible with standard SMS apps. Granted, I also don't talk much on the phone I text more often than I call. According to my phone (S5), Zoiper (the softphone I use) has used about 125 MB total since January 31 - I also did pay for the premium version and the G.729 codec to get better compression, but on average I think it uses <1 MB per minute - and the texting app I use has used 17.03 MB since Jan 31. Fongo's sister company freephoneline.ca has plans with zero monthly ongoing cost, but there is a $79 one-time fee. Fongo doesn't require a $25 minimum payment, but the ongoing cost is $4.95 per month which is way more than VoIP.ms. There is nothing else out there that will be cheaper than VoIP.ms in terms of both minimum payment and ongoing cost. That said, a single $25 payment should be able to last for years if you're a light user. There is also no way to pay less than $25 since $25 is the minimum billing increment. There is no way to get MMS on a VoIP.ms number. The app walks you through it when you start it up. Your phone calls, both incoming and outgoing, use the same calling interface that all other Android cell phones use.įor SMS on VoIP.ms, there is an app. Here are the configuration instructions for VoIP.ms on Android. I imagine similar results are also achievable with buying a Skype number, I've just never liked their Android app that much.įor voice calls on VoIP.ms, you don't need a mobile app. ![]() When you activate incoming voip calls on your phone it warns that it will use up more battery but I haven't really noticed any difference in battery life on my oneplus one, though I'm sure there is some difference. That said, I sometimes notice a bit of latency in voice calls depending on the circumstances so maybe it's less appropriate if you spend a lot of time talking on your phone. I primarily use Hangouts though for messaging my friends. I pay $0.85 USD per month for the phone number, and each call is about a cent a minute, SMS at the moment is free, but they claim to be planning on charging 1 cent per text maybe sometime later next year. voip.ms can host your voicemail as well and email you the sound files when you get a message, SMS is a little trickier, but they do provide sms capability on mobile numbers which can be accessed in their web portal, or through this user-made app which I've been using and works pretty well The google android dialer app makes it fairly easy to set up a voip connection in its settings page, and you can specify to make all calls through the voip connection. You should only have G.711 and G.722 selected.Yeah, you can buy a number (a DID) or port an existing number over from voip.ms and you set it up to handle how it receives incoming calls. ![]() Change the Selected Audio Codecs and remove the Opus and GSM FR Codecs from the selected group.Change the default STUN server option to 'Don't use STUN'.This will change the timer settings for SIP registration, and SIP keep alive timers from 600 seconds to 60 seconds. Under the account settings advanced tab, change the default transport from TCP to UDP.S IP Credentials:Įnter one of the following outbound proxy URL. We recommend the following settings to ensure that the Zoiper softphone can successfully register to our servers and properly fail over to a different zone in the case that their primary zone is unavailable. The Zoiper Softphone desktop application allows you to utilize our Softphone service on your PC or macbook.
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