As of August 31, 2010, the domain name (freeworlddialup.com) is redirecting to: http://www.siptosip.net/
which is offering a $100 trial of the Nova high definition SIP service.
As of 4/25/2010 the domain name (freeworlddialup.com) has not been paid for (expired 3/31/2010) and fwd.pulver.net doesn’t resolve
freeworlddialup is no longer free and charges 30$ per year
Quoting from the website:
News
- 2008-08-06 – Pioneering VoIP service Free World Dialup announces $30 annual fee
- 2005-07-27 – Free Lithuanian acces number to FWD is die.
- 2005-05-18 – Spanish access number to FWD +34918371702 and +34964049186, dial *2*FWD_NUMBER
- 2004-08-19 – Pre-release of the FWD Assistant for automated FWD configuration of Asterisk for MacOSX is now available, courtesy of Sunrise Telephone Systems Ltd
- 2004-08-03 – Libretel offers PSTN to FWD numbers Voxilla Story
FWD is based on SIP
Experimental IAX support is also availible
See more on IAX with FWD below
- Asterisk How to connect to FWD
- FWD and NAT
- FWD network partners
- FWD FXO Gateways
- Pulver.com is the company behind Free World Dialup.
A number of soft phones work well with this service.
- SJphone
- X-Lite
PSTN Access For FWD
- Ipstar.us is giving dedicated UK numbers to every FWD user, no monthly cost, no per min cost, Simply go to the web site, and signup.
- IPKall.com is giving dedicated us numbers to every fwd user, you have to use it, or it gets closed.
It is possible to make calls to US 800, 877 and 866 toll-free numbers through FWD, with outbound gatewaying provided by Telesthetic.
In addition, calls can be made to UK 0800, 0808 and 0500 numbers with the gateway supplied by Magrathea
PSTN subscribers in the UK, Germany, and ??? who don’t have direct access to the FWD network can call FWD users via 0845 004 5566 (UK) or 0180 3 05 05 03 (Germany). Other PSTN Access numbers are available, check the FWD Website for more info.
Wanted
PSTN access numbers in PL (Poland), FR (France), RU (Russia), …
FWD with IAX
To use IAX with FWD, many have trouble with their suggested setup. As a result, we’ve used a peer entry in iax.conf:
[FWDIAXPeer]
type=peer
disallow = all
allow=ulaw ; FWD only do ulaw
host=iax2.fwdnet.net
qualify=300 ; optional of course
secret=secret
context=from-fwd
username=321321
Then in extensions.conf
_${FWDIAX}.,4,Dial(IAX2/${FWDUSERID}@IAXpeerFWD/${EXTEN:3},45)
Alternatives (Now that FWD seems to be finished)
http://www.getonsip.com – Free SIP and XMPP addresses for Voice, Video and IM using any device or software