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benjojo posted 09 Mar 2025 17:11 +0000

The upcoming death of Skype is super inconvenient, I am (or soon to be "was") a regular user of "Skype Out" because it was the most simple way of doing international POTS calls, using my own number (aka, caller id "spoofed"), with WebRTC (so I don't have to mess around with god-awful software, or even worse a real phone)

I don't know of a service (outside of google voice, that I cannot use, because I am in the UK) that can do what Skype Out does/did.

A genuine loss/pain in the ass

benjojo replied 09 Mar 2025 17:26 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/23V6N6V4S4ZL4ypFZ5

It seems like sipgate.co.uk has a WebRTC phone product, except:

A) Sipgate.co.uk is £13/m
B) The website has a dark pattern where it makes it non obvious that there is a min of 2 users, so it's really £26/m

I spent maybe £2/m on Skype out before this

The fact that (B) happened, means that sipgate and it's sipgate.io "sister" service instantly feels like one of those products that will extort me. So "nope"

Argh, phones. I do not want to become phone people just to solve the 4 international calls that I do a month without getting roasted by my phone carrier (and also get a interface where it's comfortable to sit on a call for a hour)

benjojo replied 09 Mar 2025 17:45 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.org.uk/users/penguin42/statuses/114133709883397909

@penguin42 @revk I mean, yeah, if A&A offered a WebRTC wrapper around their SIP service (I really don't want to go into the land of SIP/Phones/SoftPhones/getting screwed when I leak my SIP creds) then I would buy it in a instant, bonus if I can also do that Skype feature where it has the caller ID of my mobile like skype does for me

It's insane that all phone stuff is just really meh, and skype was the only one that had a non awful service (in both UX and Price) for this

benjojo replied 09 Mar 2025 17:47 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/cyX8YS33ywkpZZ1YT5

What is kind of silly is that I already pay some small amount of Twilio numbers (for bgp.tools's signal/telegram number etc), but twilio doesnt seem to have a simple "Web RTC Dial Pad" page, even if just for ""debugging"". Such a missed opportunity