Free International Calls

The Magic jack has been making waves in the telecom market with the introduction of their latest version called Magic Jack Plus. It is similar to the Magic Jack’s previous launch that enables users to make unlimited cheap international calls in several countries including US and Canada.

This Voice over IP telephone adaptor has no major changes when compared to it first product. However, there are a few key upgrades that have been made to enhance the calling experience. The VocalTec has introduced this product in the market at a nominal value of $69.55/ year. Now let us have a look at the Magic Jack Plus features.

The Magic Jack Plus does not only work through USB, but it works independent on any computer with the help a modem or a router. This major disadvantage of previously launched Magic Jack has been resolved by making it easy to connect with a computer. Now, the Jack plus works flawlessly like any other telephone without it being connected to a pc to phone calls. You also do not have to place your telephone near a computer, in order to a get high quality voice.

Assured Affordability

One of the major advantages of purchasing the Magic Jack Plus is its cheap price. You can grab the astonishing and attractive deal, which come with a free service for one year.  In addition, if you need any further assistance in the near future, then you could to make an additional payment of $30, so that you could continue making cheap international calls.

Best Quality Calls

There is a huge difference between the recently introduced Magic Jack Plus and its previous version. The older version had severe voices quality issues.  In order to overcome this problem, several new amendments have been made in the new product, so that all the users can enjoy high quality voice while making pc to phone calls. This change has been made with the help of two newly added features called Echo control and HD Voice. These two additional up grades have made the Magic Jack Plus most popular product in the market.

Portability – To make calls from anywhere

The Magic Jack Plus enables you to enjoy the portability, so that you can make cheap international calls whenever you require. In order to do so, all you need is a Magic Jack Plus device, router, and Wi-Fi connection and most importantly a telephone. With the help of this feature, you can carry your device even while traveling to stay connected with your family, friends or clients.

Free International Calls to US and Canada

With the introduction of this device, you do have to worry about high rates of pc to phone calls. It allows you to international calls from anywhere in the world, work or home for no charge at all. You can make the most out of this device at any time of the day, especially to make business calls where you are required to constantly keep in touch with your clients.

Rebtel, the leading companies in the VOIP market, has just announced their latest version 2.0 for Apple iPhone. It has several unique features such as an ability to easily connect to any Wi-Fi or voice network and help you to make free international calls.

This VOIP has features that allow network hopping and it also has a facility called dubbed keep talking, which lets you use voice over IP to resume a call on a voice network. This feature has solved a major problem faced by several people who would like to make free VoIP calls by using data network.

This new application allows you to make free international calls using Rebtel services across the world in a much easier way than the original apple’s iPhone and Rebtel’s application for Blackberry and Android. The Rebtel also offers tremendously cheap rates to make long distance and domestic calls.

In order to use the Keep Talking feature, you just have to press a button during your voice conversation and it will start recording. The CEO of Rebtel Mr. Andreas Bernstrom was quoted saying that it just takes two seconds to switch over a call to voice connection with help of cellular voice minute feature. You could enjoy free VoIP calls to other Rebtel users by using the Keep Talking facility at anytime of the day.

The Rebtel has spent huge amount of money and efforts to set up an appropriate infrastructure for their outstanding services. The CEO Mr. Andreas Bernstrom also mentioned that he has spent over $20 millions on Index Venture and Benchmark Capital in 2006, in order to build a system to help connect all the myriad operators across the world. In the last few months, Rebtel has put together their infrastructure including stacks and codec to carry out the voice over data connection in a successful manner.

The Rebtel is the second largest mobile Voice over IP in the world followed by the Skype, having around 13 million user connected. They have designed an intelligent application for the new generation, so that they make free VoIP calls from their smartphones or desktop, while enjoying better voice quality.

This free iPhone app can be easily downloaded from iTunes, which also allows its users to receive and make international calls free of cost through Wi-Fi or 3G connection. You can also calls or send text messages to any non Rebtel user, which is about 90% cheaper than the standard calling charges offered by any regular service provider. The company is expecting to meet around one billion calling minutes by end of 2011. Rebtel has around seventy employees, and most of them are VoIP and application developers.

The Rebtel offers easy to setup feature that have reduced the sign up process to one single step so that use can simply connect their mobile to Rebtel’s network area. As soon as the users sign up, they can see to which friend in their contact they can make free international calls.

Zingaya has now entered into the U.S. market by releasing their new service for the websites called as click-to-call. They are the Russian based VOIP service providers who have been building a lot of credibility over the years. At the demo conference, they introduced the technology called Flash-To-SIP, which is flash based.

In order to use Zingaya, you will need to install their widget on your web-page. This will become the interface for the users and they’ll not need to install and any other software on their local computers.

Like the name suggests, they would just need to click-to-call. The calls in turn could also be forwarded to the iPBX, PBC, mobile phones or Skype. They could also be transferred to the computers that are VOIP enabled.

The competition for Zingaya will obviously come from Google Voice and Skype, which have been among the top contenders, but they could also expect stiff competition from the unexpected quarters.

More and more people these days prefer making calls right from their computers, and Zingaya could be their answer.

Some of the highlighting features of this technology are:

• Enterprise standards
• Highly secure
• Top sound quality
• Cross platform solutions
• Optimum scalability

The co-founder and project chief of Zingaya, Alexey Aylarov assures that they would be providing the best audio quality to their users for making telephone calls from the computers. The factors which could work in their favor could be their pricing and the tariff plans.

Their back-end and front end servers supporting this technology called Flash-To-SIP could work very well to their advantage.

Like I already mentioned above, the catchiest feature of this technology is that the users will not have to download or install any kind of software. Since it is Widget based, most of the activities will take place on the server side.

One of the most important features which the subscribers would primarily look at would be the quality of sound provided by the VOIP service providers. This is where Zingaya claims to be the best in the class. Zingaya’s software application is quite capable of supporting the new technologies and features.

The prominent ones are:

• It supports UDP and TCP protocols
• Noise cutback
• Smart Jitter Buffer
• Echo Cancellation
• Auto Gain Control etc

The effectiveness of the technology can only be analyzed if it is highly scalable. The state of the art application developed by Zingaya is quite capable of monitoring the vital tasks provided by their services. It can quite efficiently monitor the conversion of the audio streams and the performance of other protocols signals.

The cross platform ability of the Zingaya widgets makes it compatible with systems that run on Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The web developers should be getting the API access for their websites very soon, if they are waiting to subscribe for the click-to-talk technology.

With the Gmail Voice Chat creating a big hype about providing free calls within U.S. and Canada until the end of this year, the outcomes of Zingaya’s success is to be seen.

When the iPad was launched a few weeks ago, the hype was enormous, and the iPad did come true the hype for the most part, and whatever was not available inbuilt in the iPhone will soon come out as add ons or widgets. One aspect that everyone was missing in the iPad was the ability to make voice phones. Now, a company has come out with a technology through which one can make cheap and free VoIP phone calls through the iPad.

A company called Truphone has launched a widget type application that allows one to make VoIP calls through the iPad. Because the iPad has a mammoth screen, it becomes quite a dominant phone with this device. With the Truphone widget one can make free as well as economical voip phone calls.

With the Truphone application, one can make wireless VoIP calls using the WiFi and 3G technology. They are also allowed an integration of all their Instant messenger contacts, like AIM, MSN and Google Talk. Also, the user has a presence information with the application. The Truphone application also allows for free calls to Google Talk users and other Truphone users while the user is on WiFI.

Of course, this is not the last mobile phone application for the iPad. There will be several more as and when the iPad becomes more mainstream and the paper decide whether making calls with the iPad is a good idea or not.

The iPad has already become a raving success, with more than 300,000 iPad sold an insane number of applications downloaded on the first day itself. However, it remains to be seen whether the iPad will make any difference to the VoIP market, which has already been facing a crunch because of the various PDAs and smartphones that have inbuilt technology to offer cheap and in some cases free voip calls.

While the initial reports of the Truphone Application as well as the iPad are positive, many are not sure whether the iPad is made for VoIP or even basic voice calling. Many are still apprehensive about the design of the iPad, and are wondering whether it is feasible and practical to make phone calls out of the iPad.  Apart from making VoIP calls, the application also allows for people to chat with their contacts via all the common chat and IM software like Google Talk, AIM, etc.

The Internet has changed several aspects of our life, and just one of them is communication, or to be more precise, telecommunication.  At around the year 2004, VoIP came in a big way, and basically allowed people to transmit voice via the Internet Protocol, thereby allowing people to converse and voice chat over the Internet.

Today, there are several ways in which one can place VoIP phone calls, either free voip calls or paid. Free VoIP phone calls require both the parties to have an internet enabled computer, and have common chat software, which allows voice chatting capabilities.

To make paid VoIP phone calls, one requires two phones that are VoIP enabled, this may either be done by buying VoIP phones or buying adapters for the common phone.  In some cases, users are provided with software that they can use instead of a phone device. This software is known as soft phone. People can dial the number they wish to contact via this software.

There are several VoIP service providers, and most of them offer varied services at different prices. If you are looking to make cheap voip phone calls, you should make sure that you carry out a proper research about the prices for calls, as calls from each country to country differ.  Simply put, the call charges for America to Argentina may be different than the call charges for India to Philippines. Here are some aspects that make a VoIP call service one of the cheapest services:

Unlimited Calls: Some VoIP services offer an unlimited amount of calls per month at a flat rate. If you are one of those who has a heavy usage of VoIP, these plans may work out very well for you.

Bonus Minutes: Some VoIP service providers also offer special bonuses and discounts on signup or on completing some kind of landmark with their service, like completing 1000 minutes of VoIP minutes, or being with the same service provider for a number of months, etc.

Trial Accounts: Some VoIP service providers also provide a trial account, using which you can place VoIP calls for a set limit of days, or your account is given a set number of free minutes to call and test the service. This not only saves you money, but also allows you to have a risk free trial of their services.

Discounts for Specific Countries: Some VoIP services also offer discounts if you call specific countries at specific times and days.  If you are someone who would be placing voip calls only to certain countries, this kind of offer would work great for you.

These are just some of the features and services that make Cheap VoIP phone calls. There are several other seasonal and new services and features that are launched in the VoIP sector, which is supposedly the most competitive of markets in today’s world. Make sure that you keep an eye out for any offers or features that are launched – they are sure to save you a lot of money.

[photo: Michal Marcol]

With the advent of the Internet and telecommunications, communication has become quite economical and in some cases – cheap. There was a time when making an international call would be hassle some and so expensive that people staying away from their families would have to budget their talk time with families.  However, the Internet and more importantly the technological advances that the Internet has taken have changed all this. Today, free international calls are possible over the Internet.

Today, anyone who has an internet enabled computer can make free international calls. Of course, it is necessary that the person has the required audio hardware, like a headphone and a microphone, but that is almost a given in the modern computer models that we are using. There are several options available for a person who is looking for software to make free international calls.

Most instant messengers today allow a person to make free international calls from computer to computer. All a person would need is the person’s account name on the internet messaging service that they have signed up with.  However, one should realize that to make free international calls, it is necessary that both the individuals have an internet enabled computer and the necessary hardware.

Also, these kinds of free international calls cannot be actually relied upon, because they depend on various aspects like the bandwidth which is available on both sides of the conversation, as well as the quality of the voice services of the Instant messenger.

With instant messengers offering these services for free, there are some software and services which are dedicated towards internet telephony. Basically, Internet telephony works over VoIP, an acronym for voice over internet protocol. This facility allows a person to place and receive voice calls over the Internet. There are several services that offer these facilities. Chief amongst them are Skype, Net2Phone and Gizmo.

Out of these services, Skype follows the freemium route, where users make a free account, use the software to speak between computers, and would need to buy points, known as Skype credits to speak from PC to mobile, or mobile to mobile. These services like Skype. Gizmo are now competed with old time Instant Messengers like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Live Messenger.  Most of these messengers also allow the user to hook up a webcam, so that they can have video calls – and all this for free.

Of course, if you want better quality and resources, you could opt in for the paid service that services like Skype, Gizmo or Net2Phone offers. If you are using your computer to make free online calls, you should make sure that you have a good quality headphone and a mic. With good quality speakers, you can actually make everyone in the room listen to the conversation.

[photo courtesy: djcodrins]