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VoIP - Calling With a SIP URI: Difference between revisions

Hmm, refer to numbers and the first examples are names...
(Bit of a rewrite to tidy things up)
(Hmm, refer to numbers and the first examples are names...)
[[File:VOIP-sipURIcall.png|thumb|Calling a SIP URI with the 'Ekiga' softphone]]
 
With SIP, it's possible to make data calls over the Internet to SIP accounts by using URIs of the form ''sip:numberuser@domain''. The ''user'' field can be a name or a phone number. Such calls don't use the normal phone networks, and aren't charged as phone calls (although you may have to pay for the data used, like any other Internet traffic).
phone networks, and aren't charged as phone calls (although you may have to pay for the data used, like any other Internet traffic).
 
For example:
* the acclaimed 'Lenny 'service is supposedly available at sip:13475147296@in.callcentric.com
 
Incoming calls can be made from the Internet to youran AAISP number by using a SIP URI such as:
sip:number@aa.org.uk
 
 
Most SIP clients which support calling SIP URIs are softphones. When testing, some clients can call SIP URIs without any configuration, other clients can call SIP URIs but require that a SIP account is defined (and perhaps enabled) although they don't actually use the account to place the call. There are also other clients which ''appear'' to support calling SIP URIs but which strip off the domain and call the number part as a chargeable phone call.
 
For testing clients, it can be useful to have a free SIP account which can't place external calls (e.g. [https://www.linphone.org/freesip/home linphone]) - that way one can be sure that the client isn't making chargeable calls.
 
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