Best practice international GSM setup

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Originally Posted by ckh

- How do you force the incoming call to be "picked up" before starting call hunting?

You mean, pick up the incoming call > Play some music or on hold message > start call hunting?

I don't think you can do this with callcentric (the caller's phone will ring (so they don't get charged) during the call hunting). So if GV limits you to 25 seconds this will send you back to using Anveo or Voip.ms.

But you can do this with Anveo and I'm pretty sure with Voip.ms too.

Originally Posted by ckh

And then a additional improvement point would be to have a good solid US number provider for sms with cheap forwarding to Estonia. Because now I have GV send an email for each incoming sms and forward email that to sms by email-to-sms of SMSmail (5cpm)

I think, if GV limits the call ring to 25 seconds (can't you just definitely forward the call by passing the call over without GV ringing it?), the best 2 options are:

1. Anveo > forward SMS out with Telbo for €0.02. (as per above post)
2. Anveo > forward SMS to 372xxxx@onesimcard.com for free (this is why I went with Onesimcard over the other +372)

Originally Posted by ckh

...and is MobileVoip btw not a cheaper version of callcentric.com/support/device/iphone/callcentric? Maybe that explanation can help others.

Yes, it is comparable (both are VOIP apps), but MobileVOIP uses all of the betamax clones (you can use only betamx clones with it), and it has more options:

• it can send SMS (all of the betamax clones support SMS sending)
• call out with callback
• call out with local access number (it automatically calls the local landline access number to call out)
• call out with WIFI/3G
• you can switch the multiple Caller IDs you want to set your outgoing call to use
• betamax clones have the lowest rates on the market (if you are calling many different countries you will use several of the clones to get the best rates everywhere)

The callcentric app on the other hand is really a SIP application with callcentric (and there a many other similar SIP applications, also with a broader range of SIP support), with the advantage that it can also use the callcentric callback and receive your callcentric incoming calls.