In article <ZLydnezF0owj2ZjYRVnyjQ@bt.com>,
Steve Barlow <noone@yahooooooo.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
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>>> Question #2 - Is the Tesco USB phone locked to the Tesco VOIP service or
>>> could I use it also on say Sipgate?[/color][/color]
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>> The USB phone is merely a USB soundcard, apparently from
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>Jono - thanks for the reply, are we saying then that ALL USB phones are
>merely USB soundcards, and will therefore work with ANY voip service
>provider, be it Skype, Sipgate etc...[/color]

In my (rather limited) experience, this would appear to be the case.

The "trick" is getting the soft-phone to recognise the keys on the USB
phone in a sensible manner. Eg. there is a "helper" application for
X-Lite undr XP to make the keys work, and under Linux, the standard
usb-hid stuff works well and it just looks like keyboard input, but
the red hangup button (on the 'tesco' phone) generates 'ESC' and the
soft-phone I use (idefisk) doesn't recognise it, so I need to use the
mouse to hangup a call...

Gordon