Free World Dialup
Website: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
Quoting from website:
Free World Dialup (FWD) allows you to make free phone calls over the Internet using a 'regular' telephone or a computer program. The FWD service has over 50,000 subscribers from over 180 countries. You can join today, at no cost, by either using programs already on your computer, or by downloading a free program. Later, an IP phone upgrade will let you realize the total freedom FWD provides whether on Cable, DSL, Dialup modem, PDA or WiFi around town.
FWD is based on SIP
Experimental IAX support is also availible, see http://www.fwd.pulver.com/advanced/iax
See more on IAX with FWD below
- Pulver.com is the company behind Free World Dialup.
- Asterisk How to connect to FWD
- FWD and NAT
- FWD network partners
- FWD FXO Gateways
A number of soft phones work well with this service.
PSTN Access For FWD
- Ipstar.us is giving dedicated UK numbers to every FWD user, no monthly cost, no per min cost, Simply go to the web site, and signup.
- IPKall.com is giving dedicated us numbers to every fwd user, you have to use it, or it gets closed.
- eSMS provides free UK numbers which forward to FWD and outbound calling.
It is possible to make calls to US 800, 877 and 866 toll-free numbers through FWD, with outbound gatewaying provided by Telesthetic.
In addition, calls can be made to UK 0800, 0808 and 0500 numbers with the gateway supplied by Magrathea
PSTN subscribers in the UK, Germany, and ??? who don't have direct access to the FWD network can call FWD users via 0845 004 5566 (UK) or 0180 3 05 05 03 (Germany). Other PSTN Access numbers are available, check the FWD Website for more info.
There is a wealth of information on FWD on the Forums where most questions on FWD can be anwered.
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PSTN access numbers in PL (Poland), FR (France), RU (Russia), ...FWD with IAX
To use IAX with FWD, many have trouble with their suggested setup. As a result, we've used a peer entry in iax.conf:[FWDIAXPeer]
type=peer
disallow = all
allow=ulaw ; FWD only do ulaw
host=iax2.fwdnet.net
qualify=300 ; optional of course
secret=secret
context=from-fwd
username=321321
Then in extensions.conf
_${FWDIAX}.,4,Dial(IAX2/${FWDUSERID}@IAXpeerFWD/${EXTEN:3},45)
News
- 2005-07-27 Free Lithuanian acces number to FWD is die. (:cry:)
- 2005-05-18 Spanish access number to FWD +34918371702 and +34964049186, dial *2*FWD_NUMBER
- 2004-08-19 Pre-release of the FWD Assistant for automated FWD configuration of Asterisk for MacOSX is now available, courtesy of Sunrise Telephone Systems Ltd
- 2004-08-03 Libretel offers PSTN to FWD numbers Voxilla Story
Page Changes
FWD website is down?
I can't even access my account settings anymore.
It's been down for at least a week now that I've noticed and I can't find any news about it anywhere.
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I hope that helps Syd.