At what point exactly does the equator run through Tanzania?
Last time i was in East Africa it ran through Nanyuki, Kenya - many miles north of TZ.

I'm pretty much the only tech in the office, and I had not time to hit the Asterisk learning curve. Could not find a single asterisk installer in the UK. Not one.

Anyway, all the VoIP stuff I saw was shite, or expensive. The one we chose, the zultys mx250 is not too shabby, but it isn't that cheap, although their phones are reasonable, and don't look like sci-fi monsters. It is linux (on PPC) under the hood, and has reasonable levels of UK support.