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G2V
02-04-2006, 12:43 PM
A small company in Australia launches a VoIP killer application

If any of you have been following the international VoIP news in the past few weeks you will have noticed Jajah.com launching their webactivated VoIP service. In essence they allow the user to connect to any 2 PSTN or mobile destinations in the world using VoIP. Only problem: their service is more expensive than traditional VoIP providers, but still miles cheaper than Telkom

Two days ago a very small company in Australia (http://www.voxalot.com/action/webCall) launched a twist of webactivated telephony, which will have a serious impact on the likes of Jajah.com and even Skype. It may even kill Jajah.com. The venture capialists behind Jajah will not like this new application.

The idea is simple, free and ingenious and you do not need a broadband VoIP connection, no VoIP adapter and no VoIP Phone. The only requirement is a pathetic Telkom internet connection or any other SA dial-up connection and you will have to sign up with preferably 2 SIP VoIP providers.

All you need to do is register for free with Voxalot, enter your phone number and the number you would like to call and the VoIP provider(s) you would like to use to make the connection. Click Call and Voxalot will connect the two PSTN lines or a PSTN and mobile line any where in the world at your VoIP providers rates.

In our case we used voipdiscount.com and sparvoip.de to test and make PSTN to PSTN calls to Europe at 0.014 Euros per minutes. We even connected two landlines in South Africa at a cost of 0.028 Euros per minute.

The Voxalot system is still in beta testing, but if it lives up to the expectations then Telkom or any other Monopoly worldwide can kiss their ripoff rates goodbye!!

P.S. If you are looking for a VoIP provider, check out the VoIP directory and VoIP call rate engine on www.myvoipprovider.com

Daveogg
16-04-2006, 10:02 AM
G2V Nice find!!

but i cant get it too work. I have signed up for voipdiscount.com and voxalot. On the web call page i enter my details, but when i call, both calls get made but no sound can be heard. Any ideas??

G2V
17-04-2006, 12:06 AM
Hi Daveogg,

If you are terminating to two PSTN destinations then preferably you would need two VoIP providers, one for each leg.

Daveogg
17-04-2006, 07:39 AM
Yup thanks for that i have been through the forums on voxalot and it seems their are some voip providers that will terminate both legs, but not voip discount.

Just as an aside getting a voip discount account has been quite a revelation.

Free pstn calls in New Zealand and only one euro cent to SA. Quality seems really good. I am going to do a bit more testing locally and if the quality remains reasonable get an ATA and dump Telkom for anything except line rental and incoming calls.

G2V
18-04-2006, 12:41 AM
I am going to do a bit more testing locally and if the quality remains reasonable get an ATA and dump Telkom for anything except line rental and incoming calls.

I did exactly that and I had the lowest Telkom account in 10 years last month.:)