Future Nine
 

I've been playing with a US voip provider called Future Nine which has some great rates for calling foreign mobiles, e.g. US$0.12 a minute to UK mobiles (including it appears Jersey and Manx mobiles). They also have phone numbers for sale, but you can stitch together a free solution with a free account from pbxes.com and a free did from someone else.

I signed up there yesterday to check the quality to call german cellphones and some other destinations. Generally its well working - only the latency to US from germany is a bit too high for premium voice quality. Its 92ms from my router to them, compared with 10-20ms to my phone companies SIP-server...

Chris

can you also reach iceland mobile using there service or is it blocked.

I also saw lichtenstein mobile and wonder if that has been blocked or not.

I'm out of town until Monday. After Tuesday, I'd be happy to do a test call to someone's Icelandic and Liechtenstein mobiles.

AFAIK Future Nine uses VoiceTrading's international termination. They even offer options to choose between the standard, premium and grey routes. This being said...

* calls to +423663 get an arabic intercept.
* calls to +354380 don't complete.

thanks Vlad, I am allready using voicetrading myself and I allready wondered if this was not voicetrading because of the 3 different routes they offer like voicetrading. If it's voicetrading the will indeed not connect to Lichtenstein en the Icelandic numbers. IOM en Jersey are no problem

Only advantage is that there is no minimum deposit of 500 euro like voicetrading.

I only wonder if the signal gets routed through the usa or if they are using the european servers of voicetrading.

They have a server colocated in Amsterdam, europa.future-nine.com.

None of their 3 routes connect to 09 Mobile numbers. At least none of the calls was charged either. I sent a request to their support. Lets see what will be their answer.

I dont have a Liechtenstein Card to test...

Chris

so substitute sip.future-nine.com with europa.futurenine.com? Cool, let me try if this gives less latency.

EDIT: Yes! Down from 95 to 40 - sounds much better already.

Chris

Oh fun!
I tried to call this evening and I get a german announcement that "there have been abnormal high calling costs on your account. We cancelled your service for security reasons. Please call our billing hotline..." :D