Thread: How will upcoming VOIP work?
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DaScud is offline DaScud
2006-04-02 , 02:30
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Originally Posted by dandrewk
Gee, and yet Callvantage, Vonnage etc. DO need a phone line - the internal wiring variety. I am well aware what VOIP is.

Will I be able to use my current VOIP (and my current phone number), or completely switch over to whatever service Nokia uses?
The Terminal adapter is provided so that you use your regular phone to make VoIP calls through a service provider such as Vonage. You dont need one for making calls from your laptop/PDA. What you use is a SIP or Skype (any VoIP) client. Using a SIP client you can make SIP-SIP calls for free and I am sure there are services which will allow you to make SIP to PSTN calls for a small charge. (Check freeworlddialup for more info)

Vonage has its own softphone which can be installed on your laptop (windows and MAC only). I think it is the Xten lite but you need to subscribe to an additional softphone line for $9.99/month with Vonage.

Kphone which is a SIP client running on linux works with Vonage if you have the additional softphone service. So i guess what it will take to use your regular Vonage service from a N770 is to have an additional softphone account and someone to port Kphone for the N770 platform.

Kphone for use with Vonage


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