For all its great features, the lack of SIP support in Google Voice makes it little less useful. This essentially means that you cannot use Google Voice without using your local cell phone plan minutes, not to mention GV is completely useless on a tablet; unless, of course, you are on iOS, in which case...

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Besides Skype, Google Voice has been instrumental in making VoIP a household name. Thanks to Google’s reach and some great features (e.g., FREE USA local number (DID), unlimited free calls to USA and Canada, tight integration with Gmail), millions of users (including myself) are using Google Voice as their primary communication platform. For an otherwise...

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Price, quality, and service are the probably the most important factors influencing the choice of a VoIP provider. Providers such as Betamax (e.g., Rynga, Jumblo, SmartVoIP) do reasonably well on price and to some extent on quality, however, their non-existent customer service renders the entire value proposition useless. Blocked accounts, billing disputes, payment issues, and...

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The holiday season is here and those of us away from home will surely miss friends and family back home. Being able to keep in touch with folks back home is the next best thing to being at home. So, here is a great deal that will help you precisely do that – make FREE...

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There are a few providers that manage to strike a balance between providing good quality and affordability. Fortunately, in the VoIP space, good quality does not always come at a hefty price. Today, we look at another VoIP service provider (VSP) that provides great features at extremely affordable prices – MO-Call. Read on to find...

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Whether you own a personal blog or a huge e-commerce website, one of the key objectives is to increase interaction with your visitors. While you can have a contact form or provide an email address for your visitors to get in touch with you, these may not be the most optimal solutions. Most consumers will...

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In our last article, we discussed how to provide pseudo-SIP support to Google Talk using iNum. Continuing this series, today, we discus how to use iNums to provide (pseudo) SIP support to Skype. We all know and have complained on several occasions in the past about the closed nature of Skype. Despite being a dominant...

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In one of our earlier articles, we talked about the various ways to access VoIP. It’s ironical that most alternatives to access VoIP require either special software (read SIP clients or softphones) or hardware (e.g., ATA). Given the ubiquity of instant messengers and the fact that instant messengers already support voice chat, it is natural...

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Launching new VoIP services is nothing new for companies such as Dellmont Sarl and Betamax. Between the two they have over 30 different VoIP services (see a list of all Betamax/Dellmont VoIP services) and continue to introduce new services every now and then. Recently, Dellmont Sarl introduced another VoIP service – CallingCredit.com. Today, we take...

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Here at TruVoIPBuzz, I am always on a look out for a new VoIP services that show some promise. The objective is two fold: Make you aware of options that you have, and Help young VoIP companies to get their feet off the ground. Today, let us look at another VoIP startup that seems promising...

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