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• Discouraged by Voxalot’s Planned Shutdown? PBXes Can Help

  The announced shutdown at year’s end of the popular Voxalot SIP account aggregation service due to “rising costs of operation” has left many VoIP enthusiasts searching for an alternative. Though finding a direct replacement for the easy-to-use Voxalot is difficult, one service, PBXes.com, comes very close. Both Voxalot and PBXes.com allow advanced VoIP users to [...]

• How To: OBify Your IP Phone (No Asterisk Involved)

  Do you have an extra line sitting empty on that IP phone on your desk? Here’s an idea for it: Use it to make and receive Google Voice calls by linking it to an OBi110. Setting up an IP phone-OBi connection will also allow you to dial other OBi users directly and easily give the [...]

• How To: Use Google Voice and OBi for all your calls (free)

  Using Google Voice as a complete replacement (minus 911 calling) for a landline system is easy to do. All you need is an OBi110, a $50 device manufactured by Obihai Technology, and to follow our step-by-step How-to. Until at least 2012, all your calls throughout the US and Canada, and all your incoming calls, will be free.

• A ‘Hotline’ of SPAs

  One of the most popular help requests of owners of the SPA series Cisco/Linksys VoIP adapters is how to configure two of the devices in separate locations to create a virtual hotline. The idea is that when a phone connected to one of the devices is lifted off it’s hook, a call is automatically made [...]