How to Make Website Buttons that Initiate Phone Calls

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Again, no support for phones outside the US. There's a bunch of companies providing great VoIP services with added value, yet most of them seem to think there are no clients outside of the US. I wonder if it's difficult or just not worth it for some reason.

We (Twilio) fully intend to support phones outside the US in the future.

Some of the challenges around international telephony include pricing and government regulations, but we'll work past these and get there - and certainly will let HN know when we do. :)

I am not familiar with US telephony regulation, could you give an example about this and how it makes your services harder to export? Thanks!

BTW, Twilio looks great to me, except I can't use it! I am not too fond of the XML though.

One of the key things is that we need to make sure we honor tax law in various countries... drop me a line at danielle@twilio.com if you want to discuss more :)

Non hacker here - I could definitely use something like this for a drupal directory site. Suggestions for implementing for people like me?

You might want to check out http://www.magic-call-button.com

They are a Twilio customer and have created an easy was to set this up.

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