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> One more thing: I am well aware that Skype was also used to make calls to landlines and mobile phones across borders, but this is a feature that is hard to re
by rolandog 1y ago
> One more thing: I am well aware that Skype was also used to make calls to landlines and mobile phones across borders, but this is a feature that is hard to replicate, and somewhat of an add-on. If you need that kind of feature, you will have to rely on other apps on phone or websites that propose such services. Consider this out of scope for the present discussion.
Not sure about other people, but this was the only feature that I used Skype for (i.e. cheap calls to home country landlines while residing abroad).
Does anyone have a trustworthy recommendation that's similar to what Skype offered?
- jech 1y agoThere are a number of providers that offer such a service with the SIP protocol. The upside is that you're not tied to a single provider; the downside is that most providers only offer unencrypted calls (using RTP, not SRTP). OVH, for example, offers unlimited calls to landlines in 40 countries for 1€ per month: <https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/phone/voip/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/phone/voip/>. Now that Android no longer includes a built-in SIP client, you must use a third-party application. I've had success with Linphone (ignore their somewhat obnoxious on-boarding procedure), I've also tried Baresip, but I've had it hang on occasion. Both are in F-Droid.
- rolandog 1y agoThanks for the recommendations! I was unaware of the underlying tech, so definitely felt out of my depth... It doesn't help that most "alternative to" articles focus on (what I would consider) secondary functionality.