Looking for Free Pc to Phone Calls?

Go to VoipBuster, a Betamax group VoIP provider. It lets you make pc to landline calls to 32 countries free.  The only thing to do is to download the application, register your account and make a credit deposit.
Buying credit entitles you to 120 "Freedays". This means you can call, for a period of 120 days (unless stated otherwise), all destinations marked as "Free" for free! When you have run out of Freedays, you can call these destinations at a minimal rate.
The other condition is maximum 300 minutes per week of free pc to phone calls, measured over the last 7 days. If limit is exceeded, a minimal rate is charged.
If you deposit Euro 10, this works out to Euro 0.083 a day to make free calls to 32 destinations. Or work out the charge per minute and see if it isn't better than free way to make pc to phone calls.
The deal gets even sweeter if you consider that you can use your credit to make calls to non-free destinations. Moreover you don't have to earn free minutes here which costs you internet service charges if nothing else. Add up all the factors and draw your own conclusions.
(Number of free countries and freedays is correct at the time of updating this page (Nov. 14, 2006). These and other terms and conditions may be altered anytime by the VoIP providers so please refer to the site for the latest info.)
Other Betamax Free VoIP Providers
As I said above VoipBuster has 33 free destinations which may not include the country of your choice. But it could be in any of the other VoIP providers from the Betamax group with similar features I InternetCalls, VoIPcheap, VoIPstunt, VoIPCheap, VoIPCheap UK, Voipdiscount, Sipdiscount. Netappel, Poivy VoipStunt and Free Call.
Every one of them has its list of free international destinations to which you can make free pc to phone calls. You also get various features with them such as free phone-in numbers for selected destinations and call forwarding.
By the way, you can try any of these VoIP providers for free. Most give you 1 minute free make a trial call to any of the free destinations. The active period and free destinations and other conditions could change. So check out the sites for currently available features.

GizmoCall - Web Browser Based Free Call

GizmoCall a SIPphone service has launched a new web-based voice-over-IP (VoIP) service that will allow users making phone calls directly from their web browser. It all based on Flash.


I wonder how many other websites do that. It doesnt seem Jajah used Flash. However, I am not able to find any real difference in using Flash Plugin to make a call. I will do some study and testing and will post some results.

Back to the news, The web based interface allows the users to enter the enter in international format such as (+12221112121) and then click Call. If you dont have a flash plug-in installed (first time users), then it will ask you to install the plug-in. Just install and it will automatically recognise it. Then the call is sent out to the number you wanted to call.

You need to use headphones (or speaker) and mic to talk.

According to the website, Users get five minutes of calling per day to just about any phone number and can double that if they register with an email address. For more calls, users can purchase Call Out minutes. Besides PSTN phones they can call for free google talk users, Windows Live users, Gizmo Project users and any other SIP address/device.

sheap calls with FastVoip

Was using "betamax" for making cheap calls your worst nightmare? If we make a poll, more than 70% would say I am fed up of Betamax. Till date, there was really no solid alternative to Betamax,so people just stuck to them. However, today I am going to post one solid alternative which will make you uninstall your betamax softphone :-)

I often receive emails from blog readers about "What is the best VOIP Service to call India , Middle East, Australia or UK or take any other country for that matter". I advice them on using a VOIP service which has following:

1) Good Voice Quality
2) Competitive Calling Rates
3) Customer Support
4) Ease of Use (No jokes, over 60% first time users have no clue how to use the softphone)

Now I don't have to reiterate that Betamax doesn't qualify on any of these "prerequisites" besides the rates probably. However, whats the use of a cheap calling service if you don't have good quality and horrible customer service. When was the last time, you ever heard from betamax?

Now Lets talk about what we found, a new VOIP service from Netherlands which truly fits in our "4" pre-requisites.

Its called Fastvoip. FastVoip is based in netherlands and it does look very similar to Betamax, its not owned by them or even dellmont sarl for that matter.

I have been using FastVoip since last week and my experience has been great. Fastvoip offers solid voice quality and their customer service is top-notch. Send them a question and then should reply within 24 hours top.


FastVoip currently offers €1 cent per minute to India (Landline + Mobile) and for VOIPGuide readers, there is more to cheer. You can apply Promo code, "VOIPGUIDES09" at the buy credits page to get 25% extra credits. So if you buy €10 credits, you would €12.50. This means your effective calling rate to India drops to €0.075 cents, which is the best rate to call India right now.

UPDATE:
1) Please note that VAT issue is fixed now so from now on, if you live outside europe, VAT won't be charged to you.

2) FastVoip has given €5 euro (€2 VAT charge+ €3 Extra Credits) free credit to those who were charged the VAT. This should be applied to your account automatically. So those who paid the VAT are lucky :-)

3) No start rate for client and local access number (betamax charges 5 cent for local access number). This rate is now waived off by Fastvoip.

Fastvoip also offers full support for SIP. you can use the following settings for your SIP Phone/VOIP Adapter/SIP Softphone.

Username: yourusername@fastvoip.com
Password: yourpassword
Domain: fastvoip.com
Proxy: sip.fastvoip.com

For all those people who like to connect with other people (besides facebook), there is a cool way to find other people on Fastvoip and make calls to them for free via PC to PC option on FastVoip Softphone.

If you on the move, you can also use FastVoip via Local access numbers available in over 50 countries. FastVoip also offers a SMS service.

FastVoip developers told us that they have lot more in the pipeline like using your own phone number as Caller ID for making calls out, so people know who called them. FastVoip will also be working on getting calling rates to India down to 0.05 cents in near future.

I strongly recommend everyone to give FastVoip a try and Let us know your feedback.