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RingCentral vs. Crosstalk Cloud PBX: The Real Cost Comparison

RingCentral vs. Crosstalk Cloud PBX cost comparison: a real RingCentral bill with its contract and fees, plus a 12-user, five-year price breakdown.

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Phone Systems

Why I'd Never Trust 3CX With My Customers' Phone Systems

Why I won't trust 3CX with customer phone systems: how it treats partners, how it handled the 2023 supply chain attack, and its licensing changes.

Phone Systems

VoIP.ms setup using pjsip on FreePBX

Step-by-step VoIP.ms SIP trunk setup on FreePBX with pjsip, covering sub accounts, DID routing, the trunk and inbound and outbound routes.

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Phone Systems

Send Telemarketers to Hell

How to install the Blacklist Loser module in FreePBX and build an x666 ring group that blacklists telemarketers live and sends them to Lenny.

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Phone Systems

FreePBX Polycom Directory Automation

A bash script and cron job that build a FreePBX Polycom directory XML file from your extensions, so every Polycom phone's directory updates hourly.

Phone Systems

HowTo: Stream Music on Hold in FreePBX

How to stream music on hold in FreePBX from an internet radio station using a streaming category, mpg123 and an inbound route.

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HowTo: Pwn Telemarketers with Lenny

How to set up the Lenny telemarketer bot in FreePBX with an Asterisk custom context, Lenny sound files and a custom destination.

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HOW TO: Install Webmin on FreePBX

How to install Webmin on FreePBX with the Webmin yum repo: add the repo file, import the GPG key, install and log in on port 10000.