Using your cellphone to make phone calls using any wireless hot-spot may soon be a sought after feature on cellphones. With the processing power doubling or tripling every year on hand held devices, developers have already started developing programs to be used on Wi-Fi networks with the existing phones like the iPhone. An example of this being done can be found at free.fr. However many developers are selling their programs or making you sign up for a mailing list in order to receive them.

My question is how long will it be until VoIP applications start coming free with your cellphone so you don’t have to burn your wireless minutes at home using your cellphone? I can’t imagine any wireless provider just putting VoIP apps on your phone that will take away from their bottom line. They want your teen daughter blowing away minutes on your family plan talking about what her and little Jimmy did over the weekend, or texting until her thumbs look like they are broken in 3 different places.

So for now, install fring on your jailbroken iPhone, and watch at&t’s revenue dry up like a salty slug in summer.

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VoIP features are setting a new wave in the telecommunication industry in today’s offices. Some of these features where unimaginable with older phone systems keeping most telephone systems in the stone age. To make things even better these features are normally provided at no extra charge from voice over data networks.

Some of these features can come in very handy on and off the job site such as the find me follow me feature. This feature will allow you to have your cellphone receive a call forwarded from their work after a specified number of rings. So for one second just imagine that your on the back 9 holes of your favorite golf course and the sales lead your have been waiting to call you back finally gives you that golden ring. Now that is what i call a VoIP feature that puts money in the bank.

There is one moment or another where every business owner wishes they had the find me follow me feature, just trust me!

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Most people are aware of the mainstream trixbox PBX distribution, and the ever growing PBX-in-a-Flash distro, but recently people have been wondering what is available for Windows?

pbxnsip is a Windows based VoIP solution. It runs on Windows. The pbxnsip PBX is available for various platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Linux and NetBSD. You can choose what hardware and software platform is most efficient for you.

Windows-based operating systems: The PBX runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista versions. pbxnsip also runs on Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. If you run the PBX on Windows Workstation editions, you might have limited number of TCP connections and calls.

Linux-based operating systems: pbxnsip supports RedHat ES4, SuSE 10 and Debian 3.1 for Intel-based platforms (Pentium-compatible). All images are compiled for the 32-bit memory layout, but also run on 64-bit machines.

You can download and install it from an .exe file right on Windows XP. Either way you go, you configure it through a web-browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. You do not need to use Linux like other PBX  VoIP solutions require, however, you may install the Linux version on a Linux box if you wish.

The pbxnsip PBX has all the common features that you expect from other competing distributions. It has hunt groups, auto attendants, ITSP support, mailboxes, and conferencing.  It also supports paging, call recording, and call agent groups.

pbxnsip is not open-source like other competing software based PBX’s. It is free to download and try, but you must buy a liscence n order to continue using it.

This basic PBX IP diagram will help many people see how VoIP actually works. A PBX (Private Branch eXchange) is nothing more that a technology that connects more people and devices to the PSTN network than there are actual outbound phone lines (trunks).

The center of an IP based PBX system is Asterisk. It is an open source software that most commonly runs on Linux. The phones all connect to the same network as the IP PBX, and communicate with it. The PBX in turn connects the devices to the PSTN network either through standard POTS lines with zaptel hardware, or directly to a VoIP provider via SIP trunks that in turn terminates to the PSTN network.