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Emergency Calls UK

Posted on April 1, 2021April 19, 2022 by Daniel Kobale

DIDcomms now provides access to 999/112 public emergency call services to VOIP customers within England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is possible that these services may become unavailable as a result of things over which we have no control over, for example, the failure of your internet service provider (ISP) or internet connection. In such circumstances, all serv...
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Get ready for Brexit on 31 October 2019

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Businesses and organisations Businesses and self-employed If you trade any goods or services with the EU you’ll need to get ready for Brexit. For example, you need to take action if you: export goods to the EU import goods from the EU transport goods by road export animals or animal products export services to the EU move goods between Ireland and...
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TAP to SMS Text Messaging Gateway

Posted on August 5, 2019February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

TAP to SMS Text Messaging Gateway for your home and business intruder security alarm system. The UK's No.1 TAP Gateway! Established since 2012. PSTN to VoIP/SIP Compliant. Just install a VoIP phone converter. Recommended by Texecom, Honeywell and Pyronix How do I register to use the OpenTAP gateway? First of all, you need to register all mobile numbers which are to receive text messag...
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OTT VoIP Calling Apps are Telecom Services under EU Law

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Telephone calling apps, such as Skype, Viber and Google Hangouts, are subject to European telecom regulation, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Such services may now be required to comply with EU obligations that apply to traditional telephone services, such as registration, privacy, consumer protection and law enforcement access to user communications. In other countries (notably the US...
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Free VoIP Calling and WiFi+Mobile Internet Roaming

Posted on April 11, 2019May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Wherever there’s WiFi, you can call and send instant messages with DIDcomms You can also call DIDcomms VoIP users all over the world completely free of charge. When you dial another DIDcomms 084, 087, 070 or Geographic number from your DIDcomms VoIP/SIP account the call is free of charge. So if you have a friend, family or business contacts in the UK or other International location, ask them t...
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Asterisk configurations for sip.conf and extensions.conf

Posted on July 14, 2018March 28, 2023 by Daniel Kobale

DIDcomms is completely compatible with VICIdial and Asterisk. These are some configurations that we have used with our clients to configure their Asterisk and VICIdial SIP/VoIP servers. Our IP addresses for inbound/outbound: sip.franzcom.com 5.144.84.191 5.144.88.163 Account entry for OUTGOING SIP IP authentication. username= secret= disallow=all allow=ulaw allow=ala...
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What is SIP Termination?

Posted on March 1, 2018May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

About SIP call termination? SIP termination is a service which allows users to use VoIP technology for making outgoing voice calls to external phone networks all over the world, including public switched telephone network phone numbers, as well as mobile wireless operators. Tariffs for SIP termination service vary from one SIP termination provider to another and calling rates vary depending on...
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Stop using the Vodafone service center number for your alarm systems!

Posted on January 22, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Stop using the Vodafone service centre number for your alarm systems and other monitoring! Stop using the Vodafone TAP gateway access number +447785499993 for your alarm TAP to Text (SMS) messaging. It's unreliable and is not a dedicated managed TAP gateway! Its time you switched to OpenTAP, established since 2012-2018 and its the UK's only official TAP gateway which has been approved by Texec...
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SMS Gateway Provider for Burglar Alarm Text Messaging

Posted on December 8, 2013February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Does your security alarm system, pager or other monitoring device use TAP to SMS messaging alerts? Does your security alarm system, pager or other device use TAP to Mobile SMS text messaging alerts? DIDcomms has the solution for you! Our dial-up TAP to Mobile SMS text and email messaging gateway is completely free of charge to use, you only pay for the call to the dial-up access phone line! Al...
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SMS over PSTN Phone Lines (Endorsed by Texecom Ltd)

Posted on July 16, 2013June 16, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Vodafone the last man standing? SMS over PSTN phone lines has been used in varying industries for many years and was often sold as an additional service by alarm companies, allowing the user to be notified of alarm conditions and open/close events. For many years there were two main players operating the service in the UK, O2 and Vodafone. In 2012 the ...
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