SIP on a Rogers data plan

[Alex Kink]

I don't think Rogers is blocking SIP traffic - the connection itself is just
not as robust.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have an iPhone with "SipPhone" installed, which works very nicely
> when on WiFi. Unfortunately it seems that for programs from the
> AppStore, usage of SIP through 3G is disabled, so if you're looking to
> use an iPhone for this, you may have trouble finding a working app on
> an unmodified phone (I tried the google one on a jailbroken phone but
> it just crashed all the time unfortunately).
>
> Depending on your phone, you might be able to avoid SIP-blocking
> issues by using a tunnel or VPN?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Robert
> Brockway<robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi all.  I'm seriously considering buying a new SIP enabled 3G phone
> > (without a plan) and making my calls via SIP/RTP.  I already have an
> > Asterisk server and will put in my existing data sim.
> >
> > So has anyone done this?  I saw reports of problems with SIP on the
> Rogers
> > network dating from 2007 and rumours that they were blocking parts of the
> > SIP protocol to make calls impossible.
> >
> > I will be testing this on the weekend by making SIP calls from my laptop
> > over 3G but wondered if anyone actually has this working?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rob
> >
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