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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Free texting and calling via WiFi?
Date: 1 Jan 2017 21:34:19 GMT
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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> > Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> > > Yanis Bernard <YanisBernards_jonque@orange.fr> wrote:
> > > > >   Perhaps not for that purpose alone, but Skype can also make
> > > > > Skype-to-Skype video calls. AFAIK, GoogleVoice/Hangouts doesn't do video
> > > > > calls and even if it does, it won't do video calls to/from Skype user.
> > > > 
> > > > I think you hit upon the huge drawback of almost all of the VOIP solutions, 
> > > > which is that they need the same software on both ends.
> > > > 
> > > Almost all of the *proprietary* solutions need "the same software on
> > > both ends".  'Proper' VOIP applications work to the internet VOIP
> > > standards and interwork without problems.
> > 
> >   Please give examples of such "'Proper' VOIP applications", because
> > AFAIK, there is no such animal.
> > 
> Zoiper and the SIP Discount mobile app.

  Please give some pointers (URLs) to these and answer the rest of my
post (which you silently snipped).

  The 'SIP' part doesn't look promising and implies that you don't
understand what is being asked for.