voip.ms requires setting up SIP credentials and configuring a softphone (or their app). Great for technical users who want maximum control and lowest rates. Voklit is for people who wish to download an app / use the browser and start calling immediately without touching any settings.
Google Voice is available everywhere with a little effort. I've used it outside of the US for over 10 years.
Even without GV there are other lower cost options. The actual (wholesale) cost of these services are around what GV charge or less, a 5+ times mark up is pretty rich.
If you just want to use a Voklit number for meetings, you can already:
- Set your Voklit number as caller ID when dialing out
- Forward calls to your Teams/Zoom meeting dial-in
That's easy.
If you mean enterprise support, that's on the grid, if I have enough money to quit and focus / hire for Voklit. I would do that.
Encrypted Calls
All calls are encrypted with TLS 1.2+ for signaling and SRTP with AES-128 for audio. Your conversations stay private during transmission.
This can only be true on your (Voklit) end between the client and the server, it stops being encrypted both from signalling and audio perspective the moment it hits the PSTN in any country on any network.
I would consider re-phrasing this so that limitation is more clear, for people who may misinterpret that encryption claim, unless you've found a way to encrypt PSTN signalling and audio which would be a much more impressive feat.
Extraordinary! Congratulations.
I’ve always been fascinated by the world of telephony.
How did you manage to get numbers for every country? Do you have direct access to SS7, are you a virtual operator, or do you use third-party services for each country?
Usually, you need a presence in each country, like an official entity. It's easy for a myriad of countries to do that for a fee; even in Dubai, you can form a company. Then you can acquire numbers easily in these countries. I am now supporting the UK (easy to get)/US/CA, and will soon support some European countries as well. What's hard are the countries that require authority talks like Egypt :D
I am Egyptian living in Europe, so I want to support it, but I left it for a bit.
There are a lot of telephony providers out there (Twilio, Bandwidth, etc.) So it's easy to start building.
He just uses Twilio, they handle everything, he just calls some APIs and takes a 257% markup for phone calls. Anyone can sign up, usually at most you'll need a local address.
I have monitoring in place for such behaviour, also detection for too many calls under specific amount of time with locations. I am still very new to actually have scamers finding the website I think.
Assuming you are talking about a US Number. Most likely, even if the number you get is not classified as voip today, there's a good chance it will be classified as such in the future. (I've had numbers that I ported to google voice from cell phone that eventually started being classified as a voip #).
Cheapest reliable (as in 100%, GV works ok for me in general, but not perfect) way I've found in my research of this is to get a Tello Mobile #, as they are just a t-mobile MVNO, so the numbers are part of t-mobile's pool, so that costs $5-6 a month at the minimum, depending how you configure it.).
Looks great to me, how is this different from the competition? If you can add something new you can reach out to small businesses and start selling. For example, most small businesses can’t respond to calls while they’re working, like barbers, makeup artists etc. Add agents that can respond to customers.
