[Gllug] skype

[Robert P. McKenzie]

Doug Winter wrote:
> Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> 
>> Ooops, forgot to say that YOU would provide her with the SPA-1000 
>> preconfigured and all she would have to do is plug it into an 
>> electrical outlet and her broadband connection.
> 
> 
> Yeah, well, it's all working already though with skype without any extra 
> kit at all.  I'd have trouble persuading her to use this thing, 
> especially when I'd need to post another one to my cousin in Australia 
> to whom my mum spends most of her time on the phone.  Oh, and my 
> brothers would need one each too.
> 
> Ultimately this is a network effect, and the winner is the network with 
> the most people on it.  I reckon unless a major player comes in soon 
> (google?), skype is going to be it.  Aa number of my clients use it, all 
> my family use it and a lot of friends use it.  It's hard to imagine 
> anything else gaining that penetration.
> 
> doug.
> 

There's no reason you have to external devices, I use softphones 
(currently) with my asterisk server.  Anywhere I can get open wifi 
access I can fire up the softphone client (FireFly) and I'm on the PBX 
ready to make and receive calls.

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