PhoneGnome uses the industry standard SIP technology and embraces open, interoperable standards wherever possible.

Calling SIP Addresses

You can call a SIP address with PhoneGnome simply by entering the SIP address in URI form such as sip:user@service (for example sip:joe@example.com). Such SIP addresses can be called via the ‘Quick Call” feature, entered into your Contacts and called via click-to-dial, and even used as find-me/follow-me numbers.

Receiving SIP Calls

If you have the PhoneGnome box, friends and others with SIP compatible software and services can call your PhoneGnome by placing a call to a SIP address like this: sip:number@sip.phonegnome.com

In this case, number is the telephone number of your PhoneGnome box (the number of the phone service plugged into the PhoneGnome box) including country code. For US/Canada, this means 1 followed by your 10-digit phone number (no punctuation).

Other Special-purpose SIP addresses

PhoneGnome also supports several special purpose SIP addresses, as follows:

These special-purpose addresses are particularly handy to use with DIDs (telephone numbers) that are directed to a SIP address, such as those available from DID Worldwide (or free Washington state numbers from IPKALL). For example, by activating the “busy-forward” service on your home phone line (from your home phone carrier), and having calls forwarded to a DID that rings to your PhoneGnome SIP address, you can get VoIP-ready call-waiting, or by directing the call to the special “vm-number” you can send calls to your POTS line directly to voicemail when you’re on the phone.

Likewise, a DID that rings to the “mg-number” SIP address gives you a separate way to access your MobileGnome service.

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