Archive for June, 2008
Yahoo Voice – Free calls And Low Cost calls From your PC
Yahoo Voice – Free calls And Low Cost calls From your PC
Today we will go through one of the biggest voip providers in the world.
Yahoo Voice is one of the biggest players in free and low rate calls from PC.
First let us discuss about Free PC to PC Calls From Yahoo.
How to Call Free from PC To PC With Yahoo?
1) To call from PC To another PC With Yahoo, Download Yahoo messenger first
2) Register your account with them.
3) Invite your friends, relatives to talk with them unlimited.
4) Just press call button in your Yahoo Messenger to free call unlimitedly to your friends.
5) Free PC-to-PC calls are unlimited and the quality is so good that you will not believe it’s free. PC-to-PC calling is currently available in the following versions of Yahoo! Messenger: XP (9.0 Beta), XP (8.1), Vista, Mac.
6) You can also receive voicemail if your friend is not available. You can also receive voicemails from friends who miss you when they try to call. Voicemail messages are delivered as attachments in email to the address you choose.
How To make Phone/Mobile Calls From your PC With Yahoo Messenger & Yahoo Voice Service?
Sign up with Yahoo! Voice Phone Out account to make calls from Yahoo! Messenger to your friends’ regular or mobile phones worldwide for as low as 1¢ a minute. Please check their callings rates to worldwide.
Their initial rates start from as little as 1¢ to call phones in the U.S. Get started for as little as $10 prepaid credit (for calls to the U.S., that will hold you over for up to 1000 minutes!).
To call someone on your messenger list with a phone number listed, click first on that person’s name, then the phone icon and finally “Call (Person’s) computer.” You’ll hear a ring, they’ll answer and the call starts. When you’re done, click “End Call.”
To call someone while the two of you are having IMing, just click the phone icon above the conversation window in yahoo messengers. To call someone who’s not on your messenger list, type the computer phone number in the “Type a Yahoo ID” bar above the messenger list.
Things to remember – When dialing, always remember to include the area code and/or country code (even when you’re calling someone local).
Yahoo Allowed free Calls During Diwali In India.
Please read this http://voice.yahoo.com/diwali/ and do check out for free promotion from them during promotions time.
Free Phone Calls From Google Talk (gtalk)
Free Phone Calls From Google Talk (gtalk)
As most of us know one can freely call pc to pc with Google Talk, but how one can make free pc to phone calls or free VOIP calls through Gtalk?
Let me tell you, one can do this with virtually with any phone number in the world using gTalk with the help of some third party service.
Oh yes if you have not downloaded Gtalk yet on your systems first do it from this URL :
http://www.google.com/talk/index.html
I am giving you two examples of setting free Calls right from your PC to any landline or mobile number from gTalk:
Making calls through gtalk2voip.com:
To make a call through gtalk2voip.com do following steps;
Step 1: Subscribe to the service in one of the possible ways:
- 1st Way. Login to your GoogleTalk and add new recipient whose user id is service@gtalk2voip.com.
- 2nd Way. Or Go to the main page of this site and submit your user id by pressing “Invite” button, then accept invitation from service@gtalk2voip.com.
You will immediately receive massage like this:
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*====== AVAILABLE COMMANDS ======*
HELP – Display this message.
MYPAGE – Display URL to your personal account page.
WEBCALL – Display URL to your personal Web Call.
DICT word – Make a request to DICT.ORG for word definitions.
MSG to text – Send off-line message text to user to .
IM to text – Send Instant Message text to user to . Example: IM msn:billgates@hotmail.com Hello Billy!
VMPLAY id – Play voice mail message number id .
VMDEL id – Delete voice mail message number id
VMSEND user – Send voice mail to other gtalk user .
VMSET id – Set id as a default welcome message.
CONF – Create conference room for you. Room cookie will be sent back.
JOIN cookie – Join someone’s else conference room using cookie .
CREDITS – Go buy more credits.
CALL phone [via] – Make an outgoing voice call to telephone number phone which is represented in E.164 format. Example, to call Google type: CALL 1-650-253-0000 . You can also setup a registered service provider name in optional via parameter to place call throu.
CALL sipuser@sipprovider.com – Make an outgoing voice call to SIP phone sipuser@sipprovider.com . Example: CALL pbx@stalker.com .
DTMF_TONES : Type in any string of digits or Asterisk or # sign while talking to send DTMF tones.
SMS phone_number text – Send text an SMS message to phone . Example: SMS +1-234-5678901 Hello, just testing
*============== END =============*
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These are the commands from the provider.
Step 2. Now type in a command like CALL someuser@sipprovider.com in the chat window to place a call to any SIP user someuser@sipprovider.com. You can also define port numbers like in someuser@sipprovider.com:5060 if you have one.
Step 3. In few seconds you will receive incoming call from service@gtalk2voip.com, which you have to accept (or decline if you have suddenly changed your mind).
Step 4. After incoming call is accepted by them, you will hear a beep signal followed by (a usual voice indicator of call progress). Text messages will also be displayed in chat window informing you about call setup events, call cost and which service provider it is routed through.
Step 5. When your call is answered on the remote side, “Remote answered. Now talking..” message is displayed. From this moment accounting process is started, you can talk. please note you have not paid a single penny for it till now.
Step 6. When you drop the call or the remote party hangs up, a message like “Charged time: XX secs. Reason = EndedByLocalUser” is displayed to you. It will be the reason for the call end.
I will advice some of my readers to check this method and write their experience here in in form of your comments so that many of us can get benefited from it.
Making Calls through http://gtalk.splinter.net/
In this case you don’t have to fill form or get registration and its easy to use.
1) Open Gtalk, add service@splinter.net as a friend. You must use gTalk in order to use free VoIP service.
2) They act as a middle man and enable you to reach regular telephones (landline and cell phones).
3) In few moments you will get confirmation from splinter bot.
4) Now send them a message like “call 12147773856″ and they will connect you. You will receive an incoming call, accept it and in few minutes your call will be connected to the number entered.
5) They give you small credit to call some free calls to test their service.
6) You can get free calling minutes by this method by login in from different gtalk accounts made by you.
That is it for now, you can test this services and write your experience or suggestions here on this blog as comments.
Till then happy free calling.
Free Calls – Free Unlimited Calls To USA, Canada – Mpingi
Free Calls – Free Unlimited Calls To USA, Canada – Mpingi
Voip technology is taken a great leap in the world of callings. It also decreased the phone bills tremendously. Today we will see yet another voip service for cheap unlimited calls to India.
This service is yet another Voip service called Mpingi. Mpingi has some really good cheap unlimited calling plans to India, USA and Canada.
What are their calling plans?
They have three plans.
1) Freedom: In this plan you can call Unlimited anytime minutes to US, Canada & Puerto Rico. Unlimited calls to a single home country number (Which could be INDIA). Monthly rate is 34.95$ for this plan. In this plan you can also call mobiles. You will get voice mails, and call conferencing.
2) American : It is 24.95$ monthly. In this plan you can get unlimited anytime minutes to US, Canada.
3) Economy : This plan costs 15.95$ and you can call 1000 minutes in USA and Canada.
In this lot freedom plan looks best for USA, Canada residence and want to talk to their Parents, or wife living in India.
Some Silent features of Mpingi.
- One Month Risk Free Trial.
- you can tell your friend about it. You can sign up 2 friends and get one month free. Remember, the more friends you sign up the more free months you get !
- Low international rates and they do not charge any connection fees.
- You can retain your existing phone number.
- Virtual Phone Number.
- Thirty (30) day money back guarantee from the date of activation of your Service.
Free Mobile Calls – Free PC To Mobile Calls – barablu.com
Free Mobile Calls – Free PC To Mobile Calls – barablu.com
Today I will let you know about how to make how to make free Mobile calls from barablu.com.
Its a free mobile call service you can get by downloading barablu free software.
How to do it?
Here is step by step procedure to make free mobile calls.
1) Register your details with barablu and they will send sms to you including download details. For downloading it on your PC they will email you with download details. Or you can download it HERE.
2) After downloading in your GPRS, Wifi or Internet Data planned cell phone, install it on your mobile phone. Same goes for your PC as well.
3) Calls made using barablu are dialed in the same way as other calls even though calls are carried over the Internet and bypass the mobile operator’s network. In this way you can talk free* from your mobile as long as you like. (*to use barablu on your mobile you will need an Internet data plan). You and your friend (to whom you are calling) must have barablu enabled on their mobiles.
4) For PC or Mac users barablu enables you to do all the usual VoIP things like instant chat, SMS, free barablu to barablu calls and cheap PC to landline and mobile calls.
5) Even if your friends or relatives are not on barablu yet, but they have a Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™ and Yahoo!™account, you can import their contacts and still talk to them.