Prank Call America
Hows this? www.voipcheap.com (similiar to Skype) now allows you to call landlines in pretty much every major country (sorry lil' countries for marginalising you hehe) completely free of charge, using your computer, an adsl / cable connection and a headset. Download the program, create a username, plugin yr headset and dial. Always type 00 + Countrycode + Areacode + Number.
Example, to call a Perth number its: 00 61 8 93860000
That means you can call relatives overseas, prank call huddwah, prank call americans, all for free. But it also means you can make all your local calls for free too, thereby getting yr monthly home phone bill down to just line rental, around 25 bucks I think.
If your interested and have adsl or cable, get a headset from dick smith or similiar for 30 bucks and try it out.
posted by bodhiflip @ 12:33 PM
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I used to use this but it's rubbish cause of the delay so now I use Freecall from www.freecall.com. You use your home phone (they call you when you punch the no. in your computer) but it's through the internet. Much better quality. And you may have limited time but just log on as a different user when the time runs out.
with freecall you don't need a headset either and you don't both have to be registered for it to be free. just the person using has to be registered.
It appears voipcheap and freecall are exactly the same... both programs look identical, and both have that function that you both mentioned, under the tab Direct Call. Enter both numbers and it rings you, then calls them. So no headset required either. Haven't figured out how long they let you go before hanging up the call automatically.
Perhaps voip has improved. I think a lot of these services are from the same company anyway. But compared to freecall, the sound quality and the delay were crap when we used it for international calls. But you can use whatever you like.
I've been doing some research. From what I can tell they are all from the same company. Apparently they often set up a new 'program' and then remove the free countries from the list of the old one, to force users to switch to the new one and pay a new regestration fee. But with VOIPcheap and FREECALL, the programs, websites etc are absolutely identical. There is no difference at all between them, word for word; ie they are the same company. On both websites it says that there is a 3c connection fee to use the direct callback feature, which is charged to your VOIPcheap or FREECALL account. However, I am still able to use it, even though I haven't bought any VOIPcheap credit. It just hangs up after 30 minutes. Do you know much about this Suzie? I'm assuming this is just a very minor annoyance on what is a superb service. However, the 3c connection fee worries me slightly, as it is completely unexplained how they can charge this if you haven't got any credit. ANd if they can't charge it, why do thye let you do it? Read about it on Freecall FAQ at http://www.freecall.com/en/faq.html#5
yes, I know about the hang ups. I just call back. after a while freecall told me that I had no more free time but I just log in (like I mentioned earlier) as a different user with a different junk email account and then it works. there may be other catches but stephan soughts them all out for me. he is the master of free phone calls and mobiles etc.
Sam, so you registered, didn't buy any credit... and yet you can use the service without offering any financial information? Sounds too good to be true, but if it's all free I'm there.
yeah, and suzie has been using it (or an identical version of it) for ages. Without credit it seems that all they do is limit the call periods. Leon has reported a 5 minute cutoff, while I got 30 minutes before being cutoff.
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