Finding a good and cheap VOIP provider in South Africa can be difficult. Where to start? First of, check out this page if you would like to know what VOIP is. Most of the pages you probably already found on the internet sells VOIP in bulk and does not cater for home users or very [...]
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What is VOIP or IP Telehony
September 29th, 2011 
markus Very basic/Simple explenation of VOIP.”What is VOIP?” I have seen this question many times before. VOIP is a network/Internet based telephony protocol. What this means is; A phone system that works over the internet or office/home network. Why would you want VOIP?The primary reasons is; money savings. No more third party costs for PABX, use [...]
Freepbx GUI for Asterisk install
September 27th, 2011 admin Here is a quick installation guide how to install Freepbx on your system. This is basically the same for Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo and Centos. You would need to install the basics, Gcc compiler, Apache, Mysqld, Kernel Sources, Ncurses, Php, curl. Follow the simple steps. cd /usr/src wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz tar zxvf freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz cd /freepbx-2.9.0 ./start_asterisk start [...]
Snom 300 business VOIP/SIP phone
September 15th, 2011 markus The Snom 300 is a good entry level business VOIP/SIP phone that works great with Asterisk. It’s well priced, rugged, small LCD screen and has a lot of features. One of most handy features of the phone is that it can accept Auto Provision. (Settings is looked up after it received a DHCP address based [...]
Save money with VOIP on your Telkom phone bill
July 14th, 2011 markus Internet costs goes down, but the telco voice service prices goes UP! There are many ways to save money, change plans, providers (VOX, Telkom ect) But all of them you still pay a monthly fee, and high call costs to mobile. One of the easiest/cheapest ways for me. I got a ADSL 1MB line at home [...]
Free calls / phone for free in South Africa
January 18th, 2011 Here is some options to phone for free mostly done with Voip calling, or it can be achieved via land line (Note this is for International calls, unless stated otherwise, calling from land line will be charged appropriately) How it works: VOIP Broadband Internet has become much cheaper/free than a few years ago. Deals has [...]