[wplug] Free VoIP Phone Numbers in Pittsburgh?

[Greg Simkins]

Why not get an 800 number from Asterlink 
(http://www.asterlink.com/solutions.htm)?  That is next to free.  You put a 
few bucks in the account and it costs $0.02 per minute to use.  At least 
that is what the deal was when I signed up.  Actually I haven't used it 
because I have not yet figured out how to configure the box.  I had it 
working once, but alas, it keeps slipping down in priority on my list of 
things to do.

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Wagstrom" <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Free VoIP Phone Numbers in Pittsburgh?


> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:15 -0500, David Ostroske wrote:
>> Does anyone know what it would take to get a free VoIP phone number in
>> the 412 (or perhaps 724) area code, that's accessible from the plain
>> old phone system? Or even if that's possible right now?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that it'd be nice if we could get a
>> dial-in-only number to a voicemail system via Asterisk. Has anyone
>> done anything like this in the area?
>>
>> Patrick Wagstrom has said that free VoIP numbers are only available
>> (right now) in Washington-state area codes. A cursory search on the
>> interweb pretty much says the same thing, though at least one free
>> service claimed to have local dial-in service on the way.
>
> As a side note, the "We" in the above means the Western Pennsylvania
> Linux Users Group.  There are several situations we've run into where
> having a group phone number of voicemail box would be very helpful.
> Asterisk seems to be great because we can have it forward voicemail to
> our email accounts as wav/mp3/ogg/whatever.
>
> Anyway, it you can help us out or know where to point us, it would be
> very much appreciated.  Likewise, if you know of somewhere that we can
> get it cheap, that might be worthwhile too.  We won't use it for
> outgoing calls, just incoming -- and most of those will go right to
> voicemail.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Patrick
>
>
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