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Making VoIP phone calls with twinkle and asterisk

in How To, Sysadmin, Video, Asterisk

This short demo shows you how to connect the twinkle softphone to the asterisk pbx to make voice over ip (VoIP) phone calls on Linux. Doing so can provide very attractive calls to land lines and mobile phones - one cent a minute or less is possible.

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Andrew Ross

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17.02.2010

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arossWed, 02/17/2010 - 19:47

Thank you to Michel

I wanted to add, thank you to Michel de Boer and the list of contributors for writing this great application and sharing it with the world.

Jim Ross (not verified)Fri, 02/26/2010 - 14:42

How long until we'll have a

How long until we'll have a mobile version of linux that can run twinkle? I'm not talking about android, google's OS although is based on unix is still proprietary, I'm looking forward for the day when any smartphone will also work as a Voip Phone without any extra fees from the phone company?

Donn (not verified)Fri, 03/26/2010 - 09:10

Are there any special

Are there any special requirements for the kind of voip telephones we need to make these calls? I wouldn't want to get in software and hardware conflict, I've been in this before and I never seem to learn my lesson. I'd appreciate any advice.

arossFri, 03/26/2010 - 14:27

Standards are your friend

We took the liberty of removing your link. If you want to promote your business then being slimy and unethical about it and embedding the link in a pretend question is not the way to get many people to buy from you.The question was a fair one so we'll let it stand. A phone that supports SIP will work with Asterisk.

Meredith (not verified)Thu, 09/02/2010 - 21:37

What about Windows

I want 1cent a minute calls but I don't have Linux, hope this works on Windows too.

arossFri, 09/03/2010 - 08:02

Yes

There are both free, and open source SIP clients for windows.

Here's a list of SIP servers & clients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SIP_software

I know X-Lite (Not open source, but free) is popular and looks full-featured.

Anonymous (not verified)Wed, 01/19/2011 - 14:22

Thanks for that comprehensive

Thanks for that comprehensive list! I am using the free X-Lite and so far I've had absolutely no problems with it. I will eventually upgrade when I use it for my business VoIP but I'm playing around with it for personal use at the moment. I will probably buy the upgraded 2011 version when it's released.

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