Voipo is officially shutting down.

trburkholder

DWDM I followed the directions px_eliezer_ mentioned. Once that was active, I dialed *97 from my phone and gave it my voicemail box number and password. I just recorded my greeting through the menu on the phone.

OzarkEdge

trburkholder Once that was active, I dialed *97 from my phone and gave it my voicemail box number and password.

*97 can access the default mailbox associated with the SIP account being used without requiring entry of mailbox ID and password… if you configure it so.

*98 will access any mailbox.

px_eliezer_

Voipo Twitter post says service will continue until (sometime on) Monday August 11 (2025).

Zer0Cool

so did it finally die?

dcm

Zer0Cool The VOIPo portal says that my Mom’s ATA is connected even though her number was ported last week. I still need to reset and configure the ATA for her new service.

DWDM

Zer0Cool I ported out to Voip.ms and have it all working now. My VPANEL Voipo account still opens. Maybe no one is left to flip the switch off…. :

DWDM

dcm Ignore what exists now on Voipo, those settings are dead in place and have no effect on your new provider. If you ported out to her new service, the new provider has already re-directed the inbound service to their servers.

BEAR IN MIND: Some Voipo adapters can be reset and will work with the new provider. Mine was one that worked and when it re-started, it said USERNAME: admIn and it asked me for a password which is also admin. Here is what we found: Voipo a while ago had locked a number of Adapters and no amount of resetting will work which means you would need to purchase a new (as one example) HT802 adapter from places like Amazon etc.
Yes Voipo screwed us that way and there is no one left there to assist in getting you the password.. You won’t know till you try resetting the Grandstream ATA.

I started out with a lot of questions and now I’ve assisted 3 neighbors setting theirs up so feel free to as here if you need help.
Amazon sells the adapter for about $50 dollars.

dcm

DWDM My post was basically just stating that VOIPo servers are still actively connecting to their devices.

toolman1990

dcm

dcm My post was basically just stating that VOIPo servers are still actively connecting to their devices.

Thanks for the update. I wonder if Voipo and it’s vendors agreed to another extension to give users time to port out.

Zer0Cool

i wouldnt be surprised if someone forgot ot wipe the servers before leaving

px_eliezer_

Zer0Cool wouldnt be surprised if someone forgot to wipe the servers before leaving

Servers are probably paid for until the end of the month….or maybe even longer.

A separate issue from paying the phone carriers such as Bandwidth or whoever they were using.

Transitman

Apparently VoIPo had locked my number to where I could not port out to my cell provider.
I have a port order in with Voip.ms, so we’ll see what goes.

Just checked VoIPo website, there is a fresh invoice sitting due at the end of the month. I can click around on the site, but an open ticket I put in before the big burn has never been answered.

15 years with VoIPo, this is a sad ending for them, and a bad taste in my mouth!

px_eliezer_

Transitman

Yet their owner (T.D.) still has the “Voipo” business prominently listed on his Linked-In profile, and possibly other places.

You would think he’d be concerned about his future prospects in other business ventures.

Oh well, these days you can even drive multiple casinos into bankruptcy and still come out OK in the end.

Samot

px_eliezer_ Yet their owner (T.D.) still has the “Voipo” business prominently listed on his Linked-In profile, and possibly other places.

Of course he does. Just like he still rides off the whole “a magazine mentioned me 3 times” thing while ignoring that it happened over a decade ago. It’s like watching Kitchen Nightmare and the chef using the award they won 15 years ago as the reason they are great today.

DWDM

Voipo has just “allegedly” announced that it has obtained funding to stop the shutdown and allow everyone to port back in. All they are asking for is a 5 year commitment but you get a 5% overall discount if you do this and you have to pay $100 dollars for the password to the ATA. I can’t possibly see what could be wrong
with this program. / s

chpalmer

DWDM Voipo has just “allegedly” announced..

Source? I just looked multiple locations where that kind of announcement should have been just to see if they were still up and did not see a peep about that.

My ATA does still appear to be registered. (letting number go).. but incoming does not complete.

DWDM

Ate the end of my Parody post about VOIPO there is a / S meant to depict sarcasm. The entire post is making fun of voipo at this point.
Letting your number go? I completely understand and respect your decision.

chpalmer

DWDM there is a / S meant to depict sarcasm.

Looked blurry without my glasses.. 😉

Still can make outbound calls at this point. Hadn’t tried in a few days. We are moving out of the area and just don’t need the number anymore.

Keeping our Zoom number that I had started out as a test.. just because it is for the area we are moving to. And no telemarketers have that one.. yet.

px_eliezer_

DWDM At the end of my Parody post about VOIPO there is a / S meant to depict sarcasm. The entire post is making fun of voipo at this point.

You really had me going there. 😃

The situation is filled with so much absurdity, so much bad faith, and so much chutzpah, that I believed it.

DWDM

px_eliezer_
I figured everyone would get a laugh out of the “antics of Voipo” as one last hurrah.
So I went from being a Voip.ms novice to now having programmed 4 different terminal adapters for my neighbors who all were on Voipo for the past 5 years.
It is just a matter of knowing to route the outbound over UDP as the default except if your router does not allow you to deactivate sip.alg in the security settings. Verizon’s newer routers do but the older Qauntum routers do not give you an option to “uncheck sip.alg” you can receive calls but can’t place any, so the fix is to select TCP as the outbound SIP option. That in itself has issues but it works.

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