When I deployed to Iraq, it was my intent to have my own VoIP service to be able to call my family and friends whenever I felt like it. My initial choice was Vonage, their lack of support for users wanting to use VoIP with a softphone – say on a PDA or Laptop – without paying extra got under my skin. Couple that with the fact I was unable to complete calls over my lagtastic satellite connection here in Iraq and you have a no-go at this station.

Enter Inphonex, and you have a sane – and global – VoIP provider. This sanity comes in the form of options, the things that make users feel warm and fuzzy inside. They don’t care if you want to use a softphone, in fact they suggest 3 different softphones along with configuration guides. Their top choice just so happens to have clients for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. I couldn’t honestly give two cares in the world for the other two OSes, but Linux support that just works OOTB!? Hell. Yes.

It gets better. There is no extra fee for softphone use, in fact if you just want to use their service for SIP and nothing more – there is no charge period. Just sign up, and you can call any Inphonex user’s SIP number for free. If you want to use your Cisco VoIP phone, go right on ahead. Have an ATA and a regular phone? Cool deal, use it.

softphone
way cool