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Provider WhistlePhone (USA)

www.whistlephone.com​

Last update: 8 March 2011

WhistlePhone allows FREE calling (with a 20s ad announcement at the beginning on each call) to the continental US from anywhere in the World using its softphone hosted on a Mac/PC desktop computer or a supported Apple iPad, iPhone, and/or iPod Touch device. A WhistlePhone account can ONLY be created using its own softphone. So, one needs to download/install the softphone prior to create an account. Once an account is created, its SIP account is the assigned DID# (without 1) while its SIP password is the password used to login into its softphone. In order to be able to use the free calls 24/7, this requires the device to be online 24/7. For a desktop computer, this equates to a waste in electricity. To overcome this, it is possible to configure a SIP trunk on a FreeSWITCH system to register to the WhistlePhone SIP server (proxy.whistlephone.com). Below is the SIP profiles for a WhistlePhone account:

conf/sip_profiles/external/WhistlePhone.com.xml

<gateway name="WhistlePhone.com">
   <param name="username" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
   <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
   <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
   <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="proxy" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="expire-seconds" value="60"/>
   <param name="register" value="true"/>
   <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

Since WhistlePhone uses four SIP servers (proxy1.whistlephone.com, proxy2.whistlephone.com, proxy3.whistlephone.com, and proxy4.whistlephone.com) to distribute its loads, this may pose a problem to FreeSWITCH in accepting an incoming invite if it is not from the same server where FreeSWITCH has registered to. To overcome this problem, we need to create a SIP profile that will register to all WhistlePhone SIP servers as shown below:

conf/sip_profiles/external/WhistlePhone.com.xml

<gateway name="Proxy.WhistlePhone.com">
   <param name="username" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
   <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
   <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
   <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="proxy" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
   <param name="expire-seconds" value="60"/>
   <param name="register" value="true"/>
   <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

<gateway name="Proxy1.WhistlePhone.com">
  <param name="username" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
  <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="proxy" value="proxy1.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="expire-seconds" value="3600"/>
  <param name="register" value="true"/>
  <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

<gateway name="Proxy2.WhistlePhone.com">
  <param name="username" value="1WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
  <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="proxy" value="proxy2.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="expire-seconds" value="3600"/>
  <param name="register" value="true"/>
  <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

<gateway name="Proxy3.WhistlePhone.com">
  <param name="username" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
  <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="proxy" value="proxy3.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="expire-seconds" value="3600"/>
  <param name="register" value="true"/>
  <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

<gateway name="Proxy4.WhistlePhone.com">
  <param name="username" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="from-user" value="WHISTLE_PHONE_CID"/>
  <param name="password" value="PASSWORD"/>
  <param name="from-domain" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="realm" value="proxy.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="proxy" value="proxy4.whistlephone.com"/>
  <param name="expire-seconds" value="3600"/>
  <param name="register" value="true"/>
  <param name="retry-seconds" value="30"/>
</gateway>

Use the following dialplan to process outbound calls.

conf/dialplan/default/WhistlePhone.com.xml (for outbound calls)

<extension name="Proxy.WhistlePhone.com">
  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^1?([2-9]\d{2}[2-9]\d{6})$">
     <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_name=YOURNAMEHERE"/>
     <action application="set" data="effective_caller_id_number=YOURDIDHERE"/>
     <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/Proxy.WhistlePhone.com/1$1"/>
  </condition>
</extension> 

NOTICE: This is just a quick hack to get the job done. If you know of an efficient way to do this, please feel free to update the above XML sip_profile for WhistlePhone.