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Rickles

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#317309 4-Oct-2024 10:29

New area for me .... there now seems to be a number of wifi enabled 'desktop' phones available (not mobile ones), so -

Presumably such phones simply replace the cable between my standard phone and the router and use wifi to the router?

What telephone number is utilised for this?

Does the Telco/ISP have to provision this similar to the current 'land-line' VoIP?

Are there still charges for wi-fi calling?

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#3292845 4-Oct-2024 10:45

They will be SIP and you will need to credentials from your provider to connect it, they wont be automatically provisioned

you will need a plugpack

Who is your ISP/Voice Provider?

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#3292846 4-Oct-2024 10:46

Cordless phones require a base station connected to a jackpoint.

However I suspect you refer to 4G handsets that function like a landline but take SIM cards, so in effect are cellphones disguised as landlines.

Vodafone used to supply them.

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#3292848 4-Oct-2024 10:59

>Who is your ISP/Voice Provider?<

OneNZ

>Cordless phones require a base station connected to a jackpoint. However I suspect you refer to 4G handsets that function like a landline but take SIM cards, so in effect are cellphones disguised as landlines.<

No, not at all ... I'm talking about the phones that look like cordless handsets BUT connect via home/office-based wifi.

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#3292852 4-Oct-2024 11:11

2Talk voice pricing. Buy an IP/SIP/VoIP phone and have 2Talk port your number.

Note: OneNZ only provide IP voice to businesses. OneNZ residential solution is an analog phone into ATA on ONT or router.

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#3292853 4-Oct-2024 11:13

Rickles:

No, not at all ... I'm talking about the phones that look like cordless handsets BUT connect via home/office-based wifi.

Desktop and cordless WLAN VoIP phones (eg such as this model Yealink or this model Grandstream) are just standard SIP VoIP phones that require a SIP service from an ITSP. They use WiFi instead of wired ethernet to connect to the internet, but are otherwise functionally the same as other VoIP phones. They have no (direct) relation to the "wifi calling" feature offered by some cellular phones mobile providers.

If you're considering VoIP then I recommend looking at hero.co.nz to get an idea of which services are available and at what price.

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#3292855 4-Oct-2024 11:17

Rickles:

>Who is your ISP/Voice Provider?<

OneNZ

>Cordless phones require a base station connected to a jackpoint. However I suspect you refer to 4G handsets that function like a landline but take SIM cards, so in effect are cellphones disguised as landlines.<

No, not at all ... I'm talking about the phones that look like cordless handsets BUT connect via home/office-based wifi.

Can be done either back to an IP PBX on premises, or else to one on the internet like 2talk, hero etc.

One NZ do not provide this as a service to domestic customers, and the last time I had anything to do with them was back in the just bought world exchange days so its possibly one of the product they killed off.

If you get a supported phone for provisioning, its usually quite easy to get working with the likes of 2talk as you put a URL in the phone and it will pull all the settings down and keep them updated.

If its a non supported phone you have 30+ settings that you might need to set, with differing names to what the service provider might call them and you will probably end up with a phone that doesnt take incoming calls half the time because things have timed out.

Get a supported phone from the IP telephony provider you want to use.

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#3292856 4-Oct-2024 11:21

Thanks all, clearer understanding now 🙂

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#3292866 4-Oct-2024 12:06

I have my VOIP with a 3rd party so i can CHOOSE who my ISP is and not reliant on their gear in any way shape or form

In saying that though, if anything breaks its on me to fix

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