Free VoIP Internet Phone Calling With Free Call Planet

Free Call Planet allows VoIP calling to 39 countries fro free from within the USA. Here is the list of these countries as of the writing:

• Argentina
  
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil (only cities with these call numbers 55 21,55 31,55 11)
• Canada
• Chile
• China (including mobile phones)
• Chech Republic
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Guam
• Greece
• HongKong (including mobile phones)
• Ireland
• Italy
• Korea(South)
• Malaysia
• Mexico (only cities with these call numbers 52 33,52 55,52 81)
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Panama
  
• (only Panama City 507 2)
• Portugal
• PuertoRico
• Russia (only cities with these call numbers 7 095,7 812)
• Singapore (including mobile phones)
  
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Thailand (including mobile phones)
• United Kingdom
• USA(except Alaska)
• Venezuela (only Caracas 58 212)
• US Virgin Islands

For mobile phone users additional fees from their cell phone providers might apply. On unlimited minutes the call should be free although one needs to be carefull not to press the 'send' or 'call' button or retreive the number from the cellphone's directory - after calling the gatewa number - otherwise one can be billed the high rates by the given mobile phone provider.

The way to use this internet phone service is by calling one of the so called gateway numbers placed throughout the states. If one lives outside toll free zone for that number then there is naturally a charge for calling it from the local phone company - unless one has a domestic or cell phone plan that covers that. Otherwise, say if one lives in the same city where the gateway number corresponds to then the call to it is automatically free.

On December 6th, this year - there is also to be released a list of additional 40 or so countries to which unlimited VoIP calling can be done for a flat fee of $10 per month, paid monthly.

Some other details include being able to call only from a pre-specified by user IP or phone number as well as $0.25 per minute charge to most countries not listed in the free call plan and $0.75 per minute to special access countries - when subscribed to their Free Call Planet Plus plan.

According to the company the free call plan has no termination point at this time although it is a part of their promotion program and can be withdrawn at any time.

A unique and nice feature of the Free Call Planet service is that it allows originating the calls through regular PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) service. In other words you can make the internet phone VoIP call by using regular phone - no computer or IP phone is needed.

VoIP Internet Phone Calling For Free

One way of calling for free is through achievement of mastery in mental telepathy and clairaudience :-)

But also, much more easily, you can accomplish that feat these days through the means of widely available technology. And while long distance physical travel is usually accompanied by monetary spending and sometimes a lot of it - these days your voice can be tele-transported to most destinations on Earth for free.

It is being done through the utilization of Internet. Once you are connected to the Internet then there need to be no extra fees for transferring of information. So yes, there is often a charge for the hooking up to the Internet itself but aside of that the data travels for free. And once voice is digitized on computer it is also treated as any other computer data. And then, by tapping to a public wireless connection - even that charge can be circumvented.

Technically speaking the procedure at hand here is called VoIP or Voice over the Internet Protocol. So practically speaking - what is needed is just the mentioned here Internet connection, then a computer with headset or microphone and speakers. And if you don't already have it - you just download and install a free piece of Internet phone software and off you go calling for free.

Going with the newest advancements in the field of Internet telephony - it is also possible for you to skip the computer part of the free phone call equation entirely. There are small, routers like gadgets, to which you can plug in your regular phone and go calling for free as well. And as I mentioned before there is also the option available through using the newest generation of Internet phones that allow you to call for free from within any so called hot spot, or public wi-fi wireless Internet zone. Some of such devices also work as both cell phone and wifi Internet phone all in once - smoothly switching from one to the other, depending on whether you happen to be within a hot spot zone or out of it.

These type of calls that we have described here are then between voice over IP devices. It is also possible and very easy to call from such units to regular phones and the other way back as well. As a rule there are some very low nominal per minute charges associated with that. Although there are several exceptions which include promotions that allow even some of these kind of calls to be carried without paying long distance charge or having to pay installation or monthly telephone fees with local phone company.

New Cisco Linksys CIT310 Cordless Internet Phone

Cisco's division Linksys has released released its new entry into the arena of cordless internet phones. It is called CIT310 and is particularly designed to inerface the best with Yahoo messenger VoIP service.

For under $80 it is a good value - already available on the Internet.

This phone allows you to call for free to other Yahoo Messenger voice users and you can see your Yahoo buddies list right there on the phone's display. It also works as a regular cordless phone.