PhoneHog will not suit everyone! You do get free international phone calls from PhoneHog, but you have to earn them by signing up for offers or buying products. Each offer or purchase gives you free minutes and you can use these minutes to dial from any phone to any phone in the world. The PhoneHog Membership Agreement states that only people living in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands can become members.

I would advise caution if signing up for this site. Maybe you should create a disposable email at yahoo, gmail or hotmail for example - one that you can delete or stop checking if you start receiving too many offers or unsolicited emails. I also didn’t like the pop up windows that appear when you navigate away from PhoneHog.

SMSdiscount is a voice over IP service that comes with many features including being able to use your landline phone to make calls. You need to download and install their VOiP software to your PC and then you can access their cheap calling rates and for some countries calling is completely Free. Services include: compatibility with many SIP devices, your own VoIP in number, a good range of VoIP devices which you can purchase from SMSdiscount direct, phone to phone dialing (although you do need to initiate calls from your computer), and local access numbers.

The standard VoIP service works as usual - you need a headset and mic, download their software and you can call other SMSdiscount users for free and dial from your computer to other landlines and mobiles (cell phones) to save money on national and international calls. Certain countries are completely free to dial, check out SMSdiscount’s rate page on their website to find out which countries apply. Current countries where you can make free international phone calls are Russia, Peru, Poland and Portugal.

Jaxtr lets you connect from your landline or mobile phone to other landline phones internationally for the cost of a local call. They do this by providing a local number for you to call for free between supported countries (over 50 countries currently available). You pay your mobile or landline phone provider for the cost of the local call.

You have to register the phone you will be dialling from on their website, then store the local numbers provided in your phone to reuse whenever you need to. So once you’ve accessed the Jaxtr website to initially generate the local number there is no need to do so again for the same number, only if you wish to dial someone new. No software to download.

PhoneGnome is a VoIP application, so you can use it like any other VoIP service - download the PhoneGnome Voip software to your computer (Windows only compatible) and you can make free calls to other PhoneGnome users and access cheaper calls to landlines and mobiles. However, their best service seems to be the PhoneGnome Box which lets you make VoIP calls from your regular land line phone and it’s available for many countries, just order online.

The PhoneGnome Box

The PhoneGnome Box costs $99 and simply plugs into your existing system between your wall plug and your phone, and it works with cable and other VoIP services (including Skype) that you may have. It’s as simple as that, there is no software to install and no need to tell your existing phone supplier.

Voip Buster is a voice over internet protocol service just like Skype. You download their software and using a headset and microphone you can make free (there are conditions) and cheap calls over the internet. It’s completely free to call other VoipBuster users. The software is only compatible with Windows Vista, XP and 2000 (with SP2). Also comes with a phone-to-phone service so you can use VOiP dialing from your standard phone - there is a connection charge for this.

Voip Buster has a list of countries that you can call for free; it’s an extensive list of about 35 countries. However, you have to purchase credit in order to make free calls. You don’t need to have a credit card to purchase credit, they accept payments by bank transfer and other methods including Western Union and moneybookers.

Make completely free calls to the USA and Canada! iCall offers various option on how to do this, there is a web based system that gives free 3 minute calls to the US and Canada, a voip application to download to your PC and iCall is also available for the iPhone and iPod Touch with a subscription package that comes with unlimited US and Canadian calls or competitive pay-as-you-go rates.

Three Ways of using iCall

iCall for the Web is a voip application that runs on your desktop and lets you make free three minute calls to anywhere in the US and Canada. Open an account with iCall in order to use it. Your call is disconnected after three minutes but you can simply call again, there is no limit to the number of calls you can make.

Using Jajah you can save money on your telephone calls, from landlines and from mobiles. You use your existing phone and there is no contract and no software to download. Jajah has three ways of accessing their cheap rates: Jajah Direct, Jajah Web and Jajah Mobile Web. The service is available in over 20 countries and you can call over 120 countries using their system.

Using Jajah Direct to Make Phone Calls

Jajah basically lets you access VOiP technology using your normal phone. For each person that you want to call you have to initially enter that person’s number in the Jajah website and you will be given a local number. Dial that local number from your landline or mobile and you will be calling an international number at local rates. The local number is always valid for the international telephone number that it’s been allocated to, so save it in your phone and use it again and again. Jajah Direct will work from any phone that you have first registered on their website.