Finarea S.A. is a Swiss company based in Lugano. They operate discount phone services in the form of conventional PSTN call-by-call in different European markets as well as Hongkong.
Betamax GmbH has taken over the VoIP services of finarea at the end of 2005. The actual relationship to Finarea SA is not clear.
Dellmont Sarl based in Luxembourg (3A, Val Sainte Croix L-1371 Luxembourg) seems to manage some brands from the begin of 2010, while others remain with Betamax.
List of current known Betamax clones (april 6th, 2011):
12voip.com
budgetsip.com
calleasy.com
dialnow.com
freecall.com
internetcalls.com
intervoip.com
justvoip.com
lowratevoip.com
myvoipreselling.com
nonoh.net
netappel.fr
poivy.com
sipdiscount.com
smsdiscount.com
smslisto.com
sparvoip.de
text4calls.com
voicetrading.com
voipbuster.com
voipbusterpro.com
voipcheap.co.uk
voipcheap.com
voipdiscount.com
voipgain.com
voiphit.com
voipraider.com
voipshark.com
voipstunt.com
voipwise.com
voipzoom.com
webcalldirect.com
Most of the services provided from the above sites allow indirect DID support by linking a DID number from a DID provider of your choice by means of a SIP URI link. As an example consider having an account with VoipDisount.com. Then your incoming SIP URI is username@sip.VoipDiscount.com. IPtel.org provides free SIP accounts that can be reached from the PSTN network by SipBroker.com. In the settings menu of the IPtel account the user can configure the service to forward all calls received to a SIP URI of his choice (My Account/Forward/unconditional call forwarding target: username@sip.VoipDiscount.com in this case). A caller can dial one of the SipBroker shared numbers and then select the desired SIP network, in this case IPtel.org by dialing *478 followed by the user number of the IPtel account. The call is redirected from IPtel via the SIP URI to the VoipDiscount registrered SIP device thus providing a way for receiving incoming calls from the PSTN.
An alternative to receiving calls to one of the above BETAMAX services is to use the ENUM service provided by the e164.org site. Create an account at e164.org and configure your real PSTN telephone number with the SIP URI of the BETAMAX service that you are using (Phone Numbers/Add/... and select Protocol/SIP://username@sip.VoipDiscount.com). ...
Betamax GmbH has taken over the VoIP services of finarea at the end of 2005. The actual relationship to Finarea SA is not clear.
Dellmont Sarl based in Luxembourg (3A, Val Sainte Croix L-1371 Luxembourg) seems to manage some brands from the begin of 2010, while others remain with Betamax.
List of current known Betamax clones (april 6th, 2011):
12voip.com
budgetsip.com
calleasy.com
dialnow.com
freecall.com
internetcalls.com
intervoip.com
justvoip.com
lowratevoip.com
myvoipreselling.com
nonoh.net
netappel.fr
poivy.com
sipdiscount.com
smsdiscount.com
smslisto.com
sparvoip.de
text4calls.com
voicetrading.com
voipbuster.com
voipbusterpro.com
voipcheap.co.uk
voipcheap.com
voipdiscount.com
voipgain.com
voiphit.com
voipraider.com
voipshark.com
voipstunt.com
voipwise.com
voipzoom.com
webcalldirect.com
DID support for BETAMAX services
Most of the services provided from the above sites allow indirect DID support by linking a DID number from a DID provider of your choice by means of a SIP URI link. As an example consider having an account with VoipDisount.com. Then your incoming SIP URI is username@sip.VoipDiscount.com. IPtel.org provides free SIP accounts that can be reached from the PSTN network by SipBroker.com. In the settings menu of the IPtel account the user can configure the service to forward all calls received to a SIP URI of his choice (My Account/Forward/unconditional call forwarding target: username@sip.VoipDiscount.com in this case). A caller can dial one of the SipBroker shared numbers and then select the desired SIP network, in this case IPtel.org by dialing *478 followed by the user number of the IPtel account. The call is redirected from IPtel via the SIP URI to the VoipDiscount registrered SIP device thus providing a way for receiving incoming calls from the PSTN.
An alternative to receiving calls to one of the above BETAMAX services is to use the ENUM service provided by the e164.org site. Create an account at e164.org and configure your real PSTN telephone number with the SIP URI of the BETAMAX service that you are using (Phone Numbers/Add/... and select Protocol/SIP://username@sip.VoipDiscount.com). ...