Do you remember my blog post "
A SIP address for Skype? Better the other way around!"? This mission has now been accomplished. As of yesterday you can call me on Skype and I will answer this call on my desk phone or cell phone using
SIP VoIP telephony. As I always try to achieve, this is a totally free solution.
I have joined
Voxeo's developer program for their Evolution application, a visual design tool for interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Part of the deal is that you get a strange phone number with a +990 country code. There is
no country associated with this code and
Skype users can call these numbers for free. My Skype account is now being forwarded over
Voxeo to a SIP address from
Gizmo Project which I manage on
Voxalot to make use of it's call connection rules and voice mail.
Have a peek on my settings:
A better explanation can be found at the
Voxeo support forum. I wonder what
VOIPSA's Dan York would say. In January he started a discussion with his blog post "
Skype says "No" to VoIP interoperability - *because customers aren't asking for it!* - Well, I am!". He is, by the way, working for Voxeo and this partly solution for his problem comes from his own company. So I guess he was always aware of this trick.
I am happy now that people can call me with Skype and I don't have to keep me computer running or buy a special Skype phone for this purpose. That's the reason why I nearly never used Skype. I don't like applications which keep me tied to my computer in order to receive messages or phone calls, like Skype or the
MagicJack normally do. Let's see which other solutions I can develop with
Voxeo. Their visual tool makes the design of
VoiceXML fairly easy.
Labels: free phone calls, Gizmo Project, Gizmo5, MagicJack, SIP, Skype, VoiceXML, VoIP, Voxalot, Voxeo
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