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January 11, 2007
Another FREE Phone Calling website: AllFreeCalls.net
AllFreeCalls.net is offering free phone calls from the USA to over 30 countries.
No special software needed. Just a working telephone.
To get started, dial +1.712.858.8094. When their gateway answers, enter 011 then the country code and the number you want to reach.
We are living in some pretty interesting times when even "free" continues to have competition.
Tags: www.AllFreeCalls.net, VoIP, Pat Phelan, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on January 11, 2007 10:34 PM | Permalink
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Posted by: ravi verma at March 3, 2008 03:32 AM
its gud
Posted by: swapnil at February 10, 2008 02:16 AM
Can i use it in mobile?
Posted by: Keshav at August 20, 2007 04:21 AM
1.712.858.8094, this number does not work anymore
Posted by: tom at February 18, 2007 07:00 PM
www.freecalls2thewold.com offers similar services with great quality.
Posted by: Matt at January 25, 2007 03:57 PM
Here is another free calling website. www.ophone.net You can call 30+ countries for free.
Posted by: Nick at January 22, 2007 05:39 PM
you can use Allfreecalls.net even from outside USA. check my original hack and it can be found here: http://voipguides.blogspot.com/2007/01/allfreecallsnet-hack-to-make-worldwide.html
I have many more such hacks for other providers such as VOIPcheap.
Posted by: Vinay at January 15, 2007 04:54 AM
Simply, 712-858 is a rural NPA-NXX, and it costs about 6 cents a minute to terminate a call there, compared with as little as 1/2 a penny for major urban locations.
The local teclo pockets most of this, and in this case the company is the local CLEC or is getting payback from it.
They know that most people pay a flat, blended rate for long distance, or even get unlimited LD from their carrier -- almost all cell phones are that way, for example. These carriers made a bet your would not make most of your phone calls to rural Iowa CLECs. So they eat the cost if you call this, and that cost is more than enough to pay for SIP termination to major countries.
I don't pay a blended rate for my LD. That means I pay very little to urban centers and I pay the 6 cents if I call this number. Since I can call the overseas numbers for 1-2 cents myself directly, I would be stupid to use this number from my IP phone, but smart (sort of) to call it from my cell phone, or vonage phone if I still had a vonage phone.
Of course, if a service like this got really popular, then the flat rate companies would become disinterested in providing flat rates, at least to numbers like this CLEC. Right now you get away from it because they don't want to complicate their offer by saying, "Free long distance, except to rural Iowa."
You can decide for yourself if you think this is abuse of the regulatory framework that lets rural CLECs demand such fat fees to terminate calls, or a really clever trick in the system. There is not, however, a free lunch.
Posted by: Brad Templeton at January 12, 2007 03:07 AM
But isn't this nothing else like Futurephone and a toll number and provided within the US only. How can these companies make money? How can they survive without business model? There is no such thing as free lunch ... I'm sure the catch will pop up soon ...
Posted by: Garren at January 11, 2007 11:14 PM