Any free VoIP internet-phone calling left ?
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Posted by on May 11, 2005, 11:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'd like to know if there are any free Voice Over IP (VoIP) services left whatsoever. even if they're limited to USA-to-USA long distance calling. I got broadband for the first time in early 2002, in Feb or March (I had DirecTV DSL) and soon after, I discovered Net2Phone -- which at the time, was offering totally free USA-to-USA calling from the internet to any phone, for 5 minutes at a time. later that year, they changed it to 2 min at a time (which made it very limiting), and shortly after that, all free service from Net2Phone was gone. I also learned of DialPad during that time, but by the time I learned of DialPad, they were not offering anything free. In retrospect it seems that I discovered free VoIP / internet-to-telephone calling, at the tail end of its existance. I completely missed out on DialPad's totally free long distance calling (I even heard that it used to be free world-wide calling, was that true?) I have not looked around very hard the last year or so for any free services that might have popped up. there probably are none, but just maybe ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Clark W. Griswold, Jr. on May 12, 2005, 1:02 am
Please log in for more thread options suburbperson@hotmail.com wrote: www.skype.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on May 12, 2005, 12:07 am
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I have skype and yes that is free for PC-to-PC calling, like many other (lower quality) services. what I am after, is free PC to *TelePHONE* calling. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John R. Levine on May 12, 2005, 4:15 am
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>what I am after, is free PC to *TelePHONE* calling.
I'd be surprised if you could find anything. Sending calls to the phone network costs real money, and the dot.com free money bubble is long over. There's plenty of services that will do outgoing calls pretty cheap, like 2 cpm. Skypeout is an obvious choice, although I've had voice quality problems with them. If you plan to make a whole lot of calls, one of the flat rate plans from a VoIP carrier like Broadvoice or Packet8 would probably be your best bet. R's, John | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by David Lesher on May 13, 2005, 6:01 am
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Are there any Skype-ish services that offer DTMF out? We have people try and call us, but they then can not get intact DTMF tones to our PBX to reach anyone. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>services that might have popped up. there probably are none, but just
>maybe ?