In article <1128716454.705706.314090@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
obiwanji@hotmail.com says...
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> Two Points:-
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> 1 Real phone systems are supposed to have five-nines reliability.


Yep.

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> 2 I noted your <g>, but you should be aware that 3am for you was 8pm
> for a Californian. Do you think it reasonable that their Sipgate
> service was unavailable just because you were asleep?
>
> (It's likely that a Californian would use a better VoIP provider; 8x8,
> Vonage, Net2Phone etc etc)
>


But all VOIP systems seem to have their problems.