BETA Testers needed for MyGlobalTalk.com: a cheap cellular international LD service

And yes, Oxford- this will work on your iPhone! ;-)

Voicestick, a VoIP company with a cellular "bridge" service (you dial your
own VoIP number from your cellphone and get a dial tone to dial
internationally at VoIP rates) is offering free beta accounts (with $10 of
LD credit) of their new "MyGlobalTalk" service.

Details can be found at this thread on the dslreports forum, where Bruce
Niklin, Voicestick's VP hangs out:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r200...t-of-MyGlobalT

They are taking credit card numbers to limit the number of free accounts you
can sign up for (they had major abuse problems on a similar promo a year or
two ago) but if you any international calling, think of this as a free $10
LD card. They have software for WinMo phones that automates the dialing
process (the phone detects international numbers, intercepts the dialing
sequence and dials your access number first) but any phone can use the
account by dialing the access number manually and then the international
number. (Obviously you can program the whole sequence into your phone's
memory dialing.)

Bruce says they need a couple hundred more testers so grab an account if you
can use it. Voicestick's a neat little outfit trying to find a niche in the
crowded VoIP world.

Todd Allcock wrote:
>
>
> Bruce says they need a couple hundred more testers so grab an account if
> you can use it. Voicestick's a neat little outfit trying to find a
> niche in the crowded VoIP world.
>
>
I like innovation but unless I am missing something I don't think there
is anything unique about this since I can do the same thing with the
VoIP provider I already use.

Todd Allcock wrote:
> And yes, Oxford- this will work on your iPhone! ;-)
>
> Voicestick, a VoIP company with a cellular "bridge" service (you dial
> your own VoIP number from your cellphone and get a dial tone to dial
> internationally at VoIP rates) is offering free beta accounts (with $10
> of LD credit) of their new "MyGlobalTalk" service.
>
> Details can be found at this thread on the dslreports forum, where Bruce
> Niklin, Voicestick's VP hangs out:
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r200...t-of-MyGlobalT
>
>
> They are taking credit card numbers to limit the number of free accounts
> you can sign up for (they had major abuse problems on a similar promo a
> year or two ago) but if you any international calling, think of this as
> a free $10 LD card. They have software for WinMo phones that automates
> the dialing process (the phone detects international numbers, intercepts
> the dialing sequence and dials your access number first) but any phone
> can use the account by dialing the access number manually and then the
> international number. (Obviously you can program the whole sequence
> into your phone's memory dialing.)
>
> Bruce says they need a couple hundred more testers so grab an account if
> you can use it. Voicestick's a neat little outfit trying to find a
> niche in the crowded VoIP world.

What is the advantage of "MyGlobalTalk" versus Voicestick with i2Bridge™?

At 04 Mar 2008 17:07:03 -0800 SMS wrote:


> What is the advantage of "MyGlobalTalk" versus Voicestick with i2Bridgeâ„¢?


The way they've explained it, is that the phone numbers issued will not
accept incoming calls- they'll be for bridging only, so you won't have to
pay for the incoming leg of the call like with Voicestick (with
Voicestick's bridge, you pay 1-cent/minute for the incoming call to the
bridge, plus what ever the LD cost to the chosen destination is.) Also,
MGT will have no monthly fees or minimums, whereas Voicestick is charging a
$1 minimum monthly fee to help cover E911 fee and DID costs.


Eventually MGT wants to release a Java app to automate the bridge dialing,
but so far only has it for WinMo.

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 04 Mar 2008 17:07:03 -0800 SMS wrote:
>
>> What is the advantage of "MyGlobalTalk" versus Voicestick with i2Bridgeâ„¢?
>
> The way they've explained it, is that the phone numbers issued will not
> accept incoming calls- they'll be for bridging only, so you won't have to
> pay for the incoming leg of the call like with Voicestick (with
> Voicestick's bridge, you pay 1-cent/minute for the incoming call to the
> bridge, plus what ever the LD cost to the chosen destination is.) Also,
> MGT will have no monthly fees or minimums, whereas Voicestick is charging a
> $1 minimum monthly fee to help cover E911 fee and DID costs.
>
>
> Eventually MGT wants to release a Java app to automate the bridge dialing,
> but so far only has it for WinMo.

Okay, well I guess that makes sense. I've only ever used Voicestick for
bridging and never even thought about using it as a VOIP phone.

There also appear to be no minimums on MyGlobalTalk.

MyGlobalTalk doesn't have a speed dial option.

It'd be nice to be able to dump OneSuite, but OneSuite still has some
advantages as a global calling plan, especially their international
access numbers.

Amusing that he's now promoting using Sprint to Home, My Faves, etc.
with his service. Unlimited cell phone service for about $30/month plus
2¢ per minute.

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:47ce0b69$0$36368$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Amusing that he's now promoting using Sprint to Home, My Faves, etc. with
> his service. Unlimited cell phone service for about $30/month plus 2¢ per
> minute.

Or, on the Voicestick $19.99 Unlimited plan, unlimited cell service for
$50/month... At least until you get "ToS"sed, anyway! ;-)

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in
news:2Flzj.28932$Xo1.3663@fe085.usenetserver.com:

> Bruce says they need a couple hundred more testers so grab an account
> if you can use it. Voicestick's a neat little outfit trying to find a
> niche in the crowded VoIP world.
>
>

There used to be an interesting thread about using Mobivox to make free
phone calls between Mobivox users anywhere Mobivox serves from any kind of
phone, but I see the VoIP companies had that declared as spam and removed.
There's another thread talking about the removal, now. There is ONE Skype
thread, but it's short. Skype has their own forums that are much more
populated than DSLReports.

At 04 Mar 2008 18:57:40 -0800 SMS wrote:

> Okay, well I guess that makes sense. I've only ever used Voicestick
> for bridging and never even thought about using it as a VOIP phone.


I have an ATA setup for Voicestick, mostly for outbound LD faxing. While
VoIP and fax generally don't mix, VS uses a pretty wide bandwidth codec and
faxing works well (for VoIP anyway!)


> There also appear to be no minimums on MyGlobalTalk.


Voicestick didn't have any at first, either! ;-)


> MyGlobalTalk doesn't have a speed dial option.


They probably feel it's unnecessary given the supposed niche of the
service. It's designed to be a bridge for a single phone (you have to
register the number for the bridge to work)- not as a OneSuite-like pinless
calling card. I assume that they expect you to store memory numbers in the
cellphone memory. The beauty of OneSuite's speed dial is that you're
allowed, and expected, to use it from any phone, so your phone's memory
might not be with you.


> It'd be nice to be able to dump OneSuite, but OneSuite still has some
> advantages as a global calling plan, especially their international access
> numbers.

True.

At 05 Mar 2008 04:12:26 +0000 Larry wrote:

> There used to be an interesting thread about using Mobivox to make free
> phone calls between Mobivox users anywhere Mobivox serves from any kind
of
> phone, but I see the VoIP companies had that declared as spam and removed.

There re no "VoIP companies" in control of DSLReports. I assume (knowing
full well what they say when you assume!) the post broke a forum rule (like
posting a referral link. That's a HUGE no no at DSLR. Does Mobivox do
referrals?)

> There's another thread talking about the removal, now.

That one hasn't been removed, and also explains the free calling thing, so
I doubt the removal was anti-Mobivox.

> There is ONE Skype
> thread, but it's short. Skype has their own forums that are much more
> populated than DSLReports.

Yeah, the VoIP forums at DSLR are pretty down on Skype- it's per minute
rate is pretty high vs. other VoIPs, and it's non-standard, so it doesn't
work with the SIP-compliant ATAs, Asterisk servers, etc. that the DSLR guys
typically play with. The hard-core VoIPers seem to see Skype as the "AOL"
of VoIP.

Todd Allcock wrote:

> Yeah, the VoIP forums at DSLR are pretty down on Skype- it's per minute
> rate is pretty high vs. other VoIPs, and it's non-standard, so it doesn't
> work with the SIP-compliant ATAs, Asterisk servers, etc. that the DSLR guys
> typically play with. The hard-core VoIPers seem to see Skype as the "AOL"
> of VoIP.

Skype (other than free Skype to Skype calls) is a not a great deal
compared to other VOIP providers. It _does_ remind me of AOL (is AOL
even still around, I no longer get any CDs from them?).