Gizmo Project Having Issues with Calling 800 numbers

Filed under: Uncategorized - 18 Aug 2006 17:35

I pretty much use one of two phones these days to make a PSTN call: Gizmo Project or my mobile phone. Gizmo has excellent audio quality. Skype is just too unreliable to use for a PSTN call. The audio quality is absolutely abysmal these days. I will use my landline attached to my PhoneGnome, but only rarely: I need a handset with a mute button. :)

Anyway, I had to get on a conference call today, which involves dialing into an 800 number. On a majority of the calls I am on, I don’t speak too much and would prefer to stay muted. I could have used my PhoneGnome to make the call, but the problem is that most of my analog handsets don’t have a mute button. That’s a showstopper.

My workaround to the issue ended up being to set up Gizmo Project to register with Free World Dialup. I have several FWD accounts and registered one as a secondary account on Gizmo. I then used FWD to make the call to the 800 number, which can make those sorts of calls. That worked fairly well.

I asked the folks at Gizmo about the 800 number problem and they said they were aware of it. They are having issues with the provider handling 800 numbers and are in the process of switching providers.

On a different note, it appears I no longer am subject to the “30 minute cutoff” on Gizmo’s free PSTN calls. I complained about this earlier (I’d link to it, but I haven’t gotten to that article in my recovery process yet).

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1 Comment

  1. Comment by Anonymous

    800#s
    Hi,

    Could you tell me what you mean when you write: “My workaround to the issue ended up being to set up Gizmo Project to register with Free World Dialup.”

    I am having problems with Project Gizmo dialing 800 numbers and it seems as though if you could clarify this for me, it could be a big help. Thank you!

    Amy

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    links from Technoratior a cell phone. Phoneboy does so as well, but uses Gizmo Project whereas I use Skype for the free SkypeOut in Canada and the US. Although the pc2phone call quality of Skype (and other soft clients) is pretty bad, as Phoneboy points out. But using Gizmo does have some shortcomings, too. Go have a read (it’s short) about how he got around a not being able to mute his handset during an 800 number-based conference call.

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    links from Technoratior a cell phone. Phoneboy does so as well, but uses Gizmo Project whereas I use Skype for the free SkypeOut in Canada and the US. Although the pc2phone call quality of Skype (and other soft clients) is pretty bad, as Phoneboy points out. But using Gizmo does have some shortcomings, too. Go have a read (it’s short) about how he got around a not being able to mute his handset during an 800 number-based conference call.

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    links from Technoratior a cell phone. Phoneboy does so as well, but uses Gizmo Project whereas I use Skype for the free SkypeOut in Canada and the US. Although the pc2phone call quality of Skype (and other soft clients) is pretty bad, as Phoneboy points out. But usingGizmo does have some shortcomings, too. Go have a read (it’s short) about how he got around a not being able to mute his handset during an 800 number-based conference call. August 18, 2006 in Networks, Skype, Software, Solutions

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    links from Technoratior a cell phone. Phoneboy does so as well, but uses Gizmo Project whereas I use Skype for the free SkypeOut in Canada and the US. Although the pc2phone call quality of Skype (and other soft clients) is pretty bad, as Phoneboy points out. But usingGizmo does have some shortcomings, too. Go have a read (it’s short) about how he got around a not being able to mute his handset during an 800 number-based conference call. August 18, 2006 in Networks, Skype, Software, Solutions

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