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Etoile · 07-01-2008, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Boult

You know, Etoile, there's VIOP and many are able to make phone call using a telephone over the internet via Vonage - VoIP Internet Phone Service for Home, Business and International Calling: Vonage – A Better Way to Phone for Less or any particular company... so they require equipment in addition to modem to send and receive phone call.

Like hearing can do with Skype official website – free download and free calls and internet calls or Gizmo5 Mobile via their computer desktop and headphone or webcam(which has mic built in)

So videophone is basically like Vonage but Sorenson used a proxy number instead of real number like Vonage do.

Maybe you missed where I talked about Vonage. And again we have the issue of what "real" number means. But like I said, Vonage runs over the internet. It is also an alias system. When a hearing person picks up the phone and calls a Vonage user, they are actually calling the Vonage HQ and then the number gets routed to the Vonage user's IP address, and they pick up the phone. It's still an alias. They work the same way. So how is Sorenson's number any different from Vonage? Vonage isn't using "real" numbers any more than Sorenson...it's still an alias. However, Vonage does allow you to have number portability, but that's not the same thing as proxy/real now is it?