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Free World Dialup is apparently no longer accepting SIP account applications from the general public. A notice recently posted on their new web site (http://www.siptosip.net/) states: “Free World Dialup closed open enrollment for SIP registration and membership in order to focus on High Definition (HD) VoIP content and services.”

While we applaud their efforts to bring HD audio to the phone world, we are sad that they have seemingly abandoned their core business.

They also recently notified all of their original batch of users that Free Dialup would now cost $30 a year.

Here at Telopar, we continue to offer FREE SIP accounts to anyone who wants one. Just go HERE and order yourself one. The visit our setup instruction page and start making FREE voice calls anywhere in the world.

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What does it take to make free phone calls to any person anywhere in the world. Here are the answers:

1. An Internet Connection: Both parties to the call will need a reasonably high speed internet connection, at least 80Kbps up and down.

2. A software phone: You can download the X-Lite from CounterPath HERE. It’s FREE and easy to install and use. There are many others; you can use any of them as long as they say that they are SIP compatible.

3. A SIP account: You can get a FREE one HERE. This link will also provide with a couple of free calls to regular old fashioned phone numbers. Both parties will need an account.

4. Set up the softphones: Instructions here for setting up your softphones.

5. To dial the other party, just enter the 7 digit account number and press the Green button. There is no limit on the number of calls or their duration. You can call anyone who has obtained a SIP account as descirbed in 3. above.

Simple and cost effective way to keep in touch with friends and foes.

I recently came across the following article pointing out some of the opportunities for VOIP hosted PBX systems and other business VOIP systems.

“For the first three months of 2009, service providers experienced an average of 40- to 50-percent year-over-year growth for IP Centrex. Meanwhile, hosted unified communications services are poised to take off, with worldwide revenue doubling between 2009 and 2013. Also, SIP trunking service revenue will hit a stunning 89 percent compound annual growth rate from 2008 to 2013.”

This is a market that is available to all of our resellers, anywhere in the world. Complete hosted business VOIP systems are available here at Telopar at very low cost.

Need some help with marketing this idea; give us a call at 1-866-457-0071 (US Toll Free) or +1-646-465-7707

What is callback service?

Callback service is a new and exciting method of marketing VOIP phone service. Take a simple example.

You decide that you want to call someone in France from your cell phone. No problem, you just dial the number with a 011 prefix and Verizon or CellularOne will route your call to France for a mere $1.49 a minute (or so).

Or, you dial a toll free US number, listen for a beep and hang up. In less than ten seconds, you receive a call back and a voice prompts you to dial your number in France. The cost: about $.03 a minute. Just 2% of the cell company cost. (Yeah, you still gotta pay for the airtime, same as you would for any call you would receive on your cell.)

If you are looking for a simple and easy way to start a business in your spare time, this might be it. Your customer pays .03, but you only pay us the wholesale rate of .015. Your profit: $.015 per minute. You won’t need any equipment. Just collect the money from the customer, and set up the account using our online account management system.

The following article recently appeared on the blog of the Manchester Guardian. We think it should be read by everybody interested in the development of VOIP systems:

Mobile firms say no to free calls online

On the internet you can email for free, search for free, Twitter for free but not yet phone for free. Or at least, not in the numbers you may expect. True, last week Skype overtook AT&T as the biggest provider of cross-border calls, according to TeleGeography, but that was mainly people communicating from their computers accounting for 8% of all traffic. What about the other 92%? The situation is roughly like this. It is possible to route all phone calls, especially international ones, across the net at little or no extra cost beyond your broadband subscription. But once calls leave the net, they rejoin a local network that charges a termination fee - which is sometimes huge, even after last week’s welcome reforms by the EU.

One answer is to get a mobile that connects to the web. In theory, you can then phone anyone in the world for no extra cost - as long as they too have a phone linked to the web on a compatible system. At a time of recession, this is a good deal for everyone. The catch is there is a massive lobby opposing it. Why? Almost all mobile operators stand to lose massive revenues from from their traditional customers if web telephony becomes the norm. Their wrath is currently focused on Nokia’s plan to embed a one-touch Skype button in its upcoming N97. Most operators are threatening not to stock it unless the Skype button is removed. One that isn’t is 3 which, unlike the others, is 3G only and doesn’t have a legacy of subscribers generating vast revenues. 3 already has a “Skype” mobile that cleverly combines use of Skype’s web network with 3’s own 3G network for starting and terminating calls. If a caller on 3’s Skype phone in London talks to someone in Hong Kong on the same system, all calls are free apart from the usual charges - £9 a month for Skype or £14 for unlimited data.

Newcomers such as Truphone go further, enabling the call to start from a wireless network at home or Wi-Fi hotspot so you bypass mobile networks. There is a free download for an iPod Touch that turns it into a user-friendly Truphone web phone (Skype released its own this week). The company has, cannily, started a new service enabling TruPhone users to talk with Skype users. But Skype, sadly, is not reciprocating. With more than 400 million registered users, it intends its proprietary system to be the world standard. Last week it looked as though Skype was becoming more open-minded when it said users would now be able to communicate with the open standard SIP (session initiation protocol). But this is a move for Skype to capture more of the corporate market, not an opening of its walled garden. Skype is streets ahead of everyone in web telephony but this could change as there are plenty of “free” web telephone systems including those run by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Google is moving strongly into mobiles by trying to get its Android open source operating system embedded in as many phones as possible. There are only one or two now but that will change if Google levers its awesome power in search to get people to use Google Talk on its phones. Anyone thinking that Google is still weak in mobiles should look at new stats showing it has 97.5% of the mobile search market.

The prospects for mobiles on the web could be hugely boosted if the forthcoming Ofcom auction of spectrum spawns ubiquitous super-fast access via Wi-Fi. That would boost the likes of Truphone and Google, and also Nokia - which must be planning for the day when operators lose their oligopolistic grip on the market. When operators recently started opening their walled gardens to content creators, it resulted in an explosion of creativity with the iPhone alone generating 25,000 applications. Think what would happen if the cost of making a telephone call anywhere in the world were next to nothing. It would set the scene for a fresh explosion of creativity across the globe - recession or no recession.

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