OnSIP Blog

This memorial weekend, I went to see the Hangover 2. We sat in a theatre filled to the brim with deafening forced laughter. A plot that’s familiar is fine; a plot that blatantly panders to the audience without offering anything new or refreshing is kind of insulting.

Anyway, somewhere between all the carbon-copy scenes, we get to the part when Alan, Zach Galifianakis’s character, bids farewell to his new monkey friend.

"I wish monkeys could Skype, maybe one day?”

Thank goodness Alan said that because it distracted me from thinking about the current state of Hollywood.

The VoIP Users Conference (VUC) is an organization we've supported and been a part of for a few years now. If you've never attended, VUC facilitates weekly live discussions about VoIP, SIP, Asterisk and all kinds of telephony-related topics. We are delighted to announce that John, Junction Networks CTO, and Charlotte, Systems Engineer, join tomorrow's call at 1 PM EDT to discuss our efforts in two areas:

Counterpath is a leading provider of VoIP softphones for business. Since our Bria for iPhone review, we have been particularly impressed with Counterpath's advancement in the mobile softphone space. Some of us even use Bria for iPhone on a daily basis to replace our work phone. As such, when Counterpath asked us to join their mobile certification program for Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs), beginning with the Bria for iPhone, we gave an excited, YES! Counterpath has officially announced the ITSPs certification program today, which ultimately provides end users with greater ease in configuring Counterpath mobile applications. To support this program, OnSIP and other ITSPs provide optimal configuration settings with their service.

Wouldn’t it be strange if your email provider forced you to download software to your computer/smartphone in order to access your email? Essentially, that’s what Skype forces you to do, access the Skype services ONLY via a Skype application.

Doesn’t leave you much choice, does it? The beauty of SIP is that it can be used for just about everything the Skype service offers on software or hardware that YOU CHOOSE!

With that in mind, I took a quick look at our new getonsip.com service to see what people are choosing to use with it. I was psyched to see that there’s a wide range of clients in use!

Here’s a quick snapshot of the phones/software clients/smartphone apps I see on the registration list: