Gizmo wants to ring you everywhere....
The GizmoProject has started offering a service that might sound very familiar. Called Area775, it lets mere mortals have one-number service. Sounds well conceived - free to try, but you pay $2.00 per answer if you don't pick it up on your softphone. Otherwise, you can pay a fairly modest monthly fee and use it as much as you want. I wonder if they change outgoing GizmoOut calls to use the CID value for your one-number?
I agree with Stuart at Skypjournal, though, $2.00 is too much to experiment with such a feature on a single-pickup, just-want-to-try-it-out basis. Maybe they should offer like 1 or 2 free pickups per month, or, better, adopt the SkypeOut/Forward model of a few cents per minute.
As far as I can tell, though, there's no magic with Bluetooth presence, nor do they solve the single-number SMS problem that I've also mentioned is a concern. But, it's a "big company" offering the service, which means folks who don't have the skills or time to run their own asterisk server can finally start having some one-number service, for a very modest $3.95/month. Hrm, I wonder if I can hook this up to my existing system, using a Sipphone registration on my asterisk box to avoid paying them for pickup? We'll see.
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