Ask HN: Is there a better VoIP provider than Skype?
For more than 10 years I've used Skype to make and take telephone calls.
For a long time I think Skype has gone downhill, particularly the iPad version. More and more often it can't find the microphone or the user interface updates haphazardly like a bad React app or it will ring and ring and ring and there is no way I can hang up. On top of that I am getting an increasing rate of messages that seem like pig butchering scams and I am getting notifications about Donald Trump that I don't want.
It seems like you should be able to get a SIP number and access it with a tablet app, phone app or a desktop app but the last time I tried it it seemed all the SIP providers I found looked really sketchy and I struggled to get it working.
Is there some simple way to get SIP or another VOIP phone working as a consumer in 2024?
For a long time I think Skype has gone downhill, particularly the iPad version. More and more often it can't find the microphone or the user interface updates haphazardly like a bad React app or it will ring and ring and ring and there is no way I can hang up. On top of that I am getting an increasing rate of messages that seem like pig butchering scams and I am getting notifications about Donald Trump that I don't want.
It seems like you should be able to get a SIP number and access it with a tablet app, phone app or a desktop app but the last time I tried it it seemed all the SIP providers I found looked really sketchy and I struggled to get it working.
Is there some simple way to get SIP or another VOIP phone working as a consumer in 2024?