[ale] Linux MicroPBX

[Jim Lynch]

Daniel Howard wrote:
> Now that I have free international calling to most of Western Europe 
> courtesy of Vonage (esp. France where we have lots of family members), 
> I'm wondering if I could set up a micro PBX in the house.  I have 
> Vonage and Comcast VOIP lines in the home.  Could I use an old PC and 
> something lighter weight than Asterisk whereby I could call home on my 
> Comcast VOIP phone with my cell phone and command the PBX to call 
> France and connect the calls?  I know I could likely do this with a 
> cellphone that does the web using Skpe but most of our French family 
> and friends do not have PCs nor ISPs at home, and the Vonage calls are 
> a lot more clear.
>
> Any thoughts?  This would be great for someone who had Vonage for 
> office line and had a basic BellSouth (now ATT) home service with no 
> long distance on it.
>
> Daniel
>
You might be interested in this:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+and+Vonage

It says that by default Vontage will not work with Asterisk, but for $10 
per month extra you get 500 minutes and a second DID that will. 

In any case I suspect that if Vontage won't work with Asterisk there 
won't be any solutions that will.

And for that $10 per month, you might be better off using Skype out 
which I think is only $.02 per minute to Europe.  (Plus $30 per year, I 
think)

Jim.