How To Get A FREE SIP Address

Android officially announced the availability of native SIP support in the upcoming release of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This is huge!

With a SIP address, you can make free voice and video calls to your friends and colleagues who also have one. Our company has been doing this for years. In fact, today, we announced our 10,000th account.

Imagine the entire world able to reach one another using a standard addressing mechanism that is based on your name and your domain. If you are thinking that sounds a lot like email, you are catching on. Let’s break it down:

What is SIP?

A SIP address IS a lot like an email address. It’s a standard addressing mechanism which allows people to reach and be reached over the Internet like email, but for Voice and Video calls. Technically, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video.

For the rest of us, it's the standard by which we will all likely be making and receiving Internet calls and bypassing the 10-digit telephone network... For free.

What is a SIP Address?

It’s like an email address: username *at* yourdomain *dot* com. Only, it's used for voice and video calls, not email exchanges.

How Do I Get a Free SIP Address?

Simply open an OnSIP account and add free SIP addresses in our Admin view. You can pay for services if you like, but if all you want are free SIP addresses, be our guest and sign up without paying us a dime or even giving us your credit card!