Which SIP Handsets for use with Blueface?

ve

First and foremost I have received some great feedback on these forums regarding my considerations for employing Blueface exclusively for my business telephony. I am about to subscribe to their €34.99 + VAT monthly plan, which gives me 2 lines (+ 2 geo numbers). My final question regarding this service is, does anyone know if there is any scope for haggling the assigned geo numbers. As this is a business subscription, I would like to think that we could get better (easier to remember) numbers than residential subscribers, but I'm not sure if that is possibe. I'm not asking whether I can dictate what the number should be, but rather ask them on the phone to perhaps keep generating numbers until they have a "good" one to give to me. NTL said to me that they could "in theory" do this for me, but I have plans on using an asterisk server for this office and AFAIK I can't use Asterisk with NTL.

So this brings me on to the matter of handsets. On the Blueface website, they suggest the Linksys SPA942 IP Phone. This phone looks ideal for what we need (E.g. display for caller ID is essential). The thing is we need 2 phones, but having looked around the best price I seem to find is from www.voipsupply.ie @ €99 per phone. The thing is we are looking for something that does not rely on either wifi or batteries. Some of you may laugh but we are coming from one of those Netgear SPH101 Skype Wifi handsets and to be honest they might as well have been programmed by our compeditors because they are the most unreliable pieces of crap we have ever used.

/As I type this I see that the device has once again signed out of my skype account for no reason whatsoever. Avoid like the plague.

So we are looking for something that can display caller ID, link up to a phone book hosted on our asterisk server and use blueface without any issues.

Can anyone recommend the device, or is there better value to be found elsewhere?

bhickey

ve wrote: »

does anyone know if there is any scope for haggling the assigned geo numbers

Yes they do sometimes help out there if you ask nicely.

ve wrote: »

So this brings me on to the matter of handsets. On the Blueface website, they suggest the Linksys SPA942 IP Phone. This phone looks ideal for what we need (E.g. display for caller ID is essential). The thing is we need 2 phones, but having looked around the best price I seem to find is ....

I haven't used any of the Sipura models but for that price the best value might be the Grandstream GXP-2000 or similar.

zeris

ve wrote: »

On the Blueface website, they suggest the Linksys SPA942 IP Phone.

I use a Linksys SPA921 everyday as my desk phone through our local Asterisk PBX and then onto Blueface. It works, does all the things an office phone needs to do (caller display, hold, transfer, conferencing).