NEWS FLASH Vitelity's vMobile: FMC Cellphone Service

[phinphan]

wardmundy My pbx is at Rentpbx and I have not encountered any wrinkles yet. I will give it a try with 10 digit dialing and an outbound route. With appropriate settings in the extension setup you can use whatever callerID you want for the phone. Pretty nifty. My only real complaint is the Sprint 3g service is so slow as to be nearly unusable. If they come out with a phone with LTE, this service will be incredible.

 

[phinphan]

wardmundy - re dialing internal extensions. I heard back from Vitelity and they pointed out that you can pass internal extensions if they are at least 4 digits long. 3 digits are processed by the carrier for 911, 411 etc. I just made ring groups like 5010, 5020 etc. for my internal extensions while still playing with it. Pretty nifty device all told.

 

[wardmundy]

Coming to Nerd Vittles this Thursday with a deal you can't refuse for PBX in a Flash users...

FMC: The Future of Telephony with Vitelity’s vMobile and Asterisk in the Cloud

 

[phinphan]

Looking forward to it.

 

[james]

do you have to use a StarTAC as demoed

 

[wardmundy]

Vitelity version of Galaxy S3 or S4 work great.

 

[wardmundy]

Today on Nerd Vittles...

 

[kaytemp]

Is there a way to place calls using different caller IDs? I have different phone numbers for several different sales channels and would love to be able to call prospects back using the associated number.

 

[wardmundy]

Is there a way to place calls using different caller IDs? I have different phone numbers for several different sales channels and would love to be able to call prospects back using the associated number.

Sure. The easy way is to use dialing prefixes. For example, use 9NXXNXXXXXX to place a call through TrunkA, 8NXXNXXXXXX to place a call through TrunkB, etc. For each trunk, you can assign an outbound CallerID assuming your trunk providers support it.

 

[kaytemp]

Sure. The easy way is to use dialing prefixes. For example, use 9NXXNXXXXXX to place a call through TrunkA, 8NXXNXXXXXX to place a call through TrunkB, etc. For each trunk, you can assign an outbound CallerID assuming your trunk providers support it.

Thanks - I thought maybe Vitelity added features to the phone to deal with multiple numbers. I'm an end user with limited knowledgeable on all of this so I'm just trying to make sure the cellphone/service will work as I need before I place the order with vitelity. A couple of related questions:

1. On my deskphone extension, Before answering I know which number an incoming caller dialed by observing if it is Line 1, 2, 3, or 4. How am I going to do that with this smartphone? Is there at least a way to setup a distinctive ring for each number?

2. On my deskphone, if a caller goes to voicemail each of my DIDs has it's own voicemail mailbox to keep the callers to each number separated. I assume this phone will act like any other extension and roll to the appropriate voicemail; is this correct?

 

[wardmundy]

1. Add a DID prefix to CallerID
2. Correct.

 

[kaytemp]

1. Add a DID prefix to CallerID
2. Correct.

thanks. Looks like this is going to work pretty well.

 

[w1ve]

Hey Ward,

Just ordered a reburb S3. (I have an S4 on Verizon.) Hopefully the Sprint coverage in NH won't be too bad. If this works as good as it sounds, I have a lot of sales friends who would like this. I presume the 2/c min is on top of other trunking charges... still a bargain for the feature. Even the data rate is decent. How is the handoff between wireless and wifi? I bet it beats the mess Republic Wireless has.

 

[voipRookie]

According to this thread on DSLReports the handoff between wireless and wifi works nicely.

 

[Hometech]

Just ordered Mine, I tried to sign up with the Nerdvittles deal for 8.99 a month and it seemed that it was setting me up a new account with voip service.... so I stopped that since I all ready have a Vitelity account. I ordered the mobile phone through my existing account. Is there a way to still get the monthly discount after I receive the phone?

Update.
Ward was correct I just opened a support ticket from My account portal page and explained my issue with the signup and they gave me the discounted monthly Rate!!

 

[Brian Simmons]

How does this effect battery life? Every other similar solution we have seen (such as using a soft phone app on the smart phone) has had a major negative effect on the phone's battery. Is this method better with regards to the battery life?

 

[wardmundy]

Brian Simmons It's a proprietary phone, and we haven't seen battery issues.

Hometech You'll need to contact their support folks and see what you can work out. The deal was only through our link, but maybe you'll catch 'em on a good day.

 

[Hometech]

Thanks Ward I will give it try it can't hurt to ask. Also I will post back on How its working once I get it going.
Thanks again for all you do and keeping us in the know!

 

[Brian Simmons]

Brian Simmons It's a proprietary phone, and we haven't seen battery issues.

Good to know. That's a game changer then, IMHO.

 

[w1ve]

Well, here's my experience so far:

(PIAF on RentPBX, public IP)

1. Bought a reconditioned S3. It came, configured -- would not work on Wifi at all. Call would immediately die. Told tech build number on phone. It worked fine on cellular.
2. They said it was a bad phone. Just got replacement tonight.
3. Replacement: Calling on Wifi: As soon as calling party answers, the vmobile phone hangs up.
4. Replacement: Calling on Cellular, one-way audio: I hear called party, they don't hear me.

Not a fun experience so far!

(Extension is configured for NAT -- but tried it both ways.)