Make Cheap Landline Phone Calls

Landline Service Providers: Make cheap calls from your landline phone using over-ride providers, access numbers and phone cards. Access voip systems directly from your home telephone without changing your current provider or telephone number.

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YupeePhone is a worldwide telecom service provider giving cheap international call rates to many countries, including free minutes to India, Bangladesh, Jordan, Chile, Cyprus, Poland and Venezuela if you subscribe. Dial from a landline with access numbers or use voip software. Calling within the YupeePhone network is free and unlimited. YupeePhone customers call other YupeePhone customers for free even with landline to landline calls.

Bangladesh Mobile is now included in the YupeePhone’s Free Destinations. Add $20 to your account every 4 months, you get 120 free minutes to call Bangladesh Mobile (and other destinations for free).

The YupeePhone pay-as-you-go service gives you a bonus of 120 free minutes every month to over 50 countries, while their subscription service includes free calls to more than 70 countries. One of the best things about this service is that there are no hidden costs – no connection fees or maintence fees, and your purchased credit will never expire (although there are one-off setup fees for subscriptions). If you don’t want to subscribe, simply pay-as-you-go.

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Dial Simple is an over-ride telephony provider enabling you to make cheaper international calls from your existing landline phone without changing your normal telephone service provider or your phone number. It’s for US landline users and apart from the initial registration process, no computer is necessary to use this service although some of the enhanced features are only accessible via the website.

Cheap International Call rates

Dial Simple is a service for people in the USA, and their rates for dialing internationally are very cheap. For example, at the time of writing you can call Australia for 2.0c per minute, China for 1.99c per minute and the UK for 1.6c per minute (1st June 2009).

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FreeBuzzer enables you to make free international phone calls from your normal landline phone by initialising the call online from their website. Enter your phone number and the destination number, then click the ‘Make a free call’ button.

FreeBuzzer rings the destination number, then rings your number to connect your call. You get free calls to other landline phones direct from your landline phone - no software to download and install, and no headset needed - you don’t even have to register.

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Dial Abroad is a cheap call provider with services in the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the USA. Dial over 100 countries for as little as 1.5p per minute. In the UK and Spain you don’t need an account or to prepay simply use the access numbers and your calls are billed through your normal landline phone bill.

For all countries where DialAbroad has a service, except the UK and Spain, you must first purchase credit before you can make cheap international phone calls – you can do this easily online from their website. In the UK and Spain, DialAbroad lets you simply use their access numbers to dial and any call charges are included in your regular landline telephone bill.

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If you live in the UK you can make big savings on your phone bill by using Telediscount. What’s more, their service is very easy to use – there is no registration, no need for a credit card, simply dial their access numbers and you will be billed via your BT invoice. Find some of the cheapest international calling rates with Telediscount.

Many over-ride access providers need you to register online in order to initiate their service, not so with Telediscount. Make cheap international phone calls simply by dialling an access number for the country you want to call. You can use this service on landlines, mobiles and payphones and the service works with BT, Telewest and NTL.

Many calls to overseas landline numbers are 1p per minute, including Australia, Canada, China, Spain and the US. You can also call mobile phones at cheap rates too.

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MagicJack is a small USB device that plugs into the USB port on your computer. With any landline phone then plugged into the magicJack, you can make calls to the US and Canada absolutely free. The only cost is a $19.95 annual fee. The service comes with directory assistance, a phone number, call waiting, voicemail and caller ID all included in the price.

The initial cost is $40 which includes your first year’s calls and the magicJack gadget itself. After the first year you pay $19.95 per year. magicJack lets you access voip telephony with your standard landline phone (although you do need a computer and it has to be switched on). There is no software to install, the magicJack loads this automatically), you literally just plug it in and dial. The network has been carefully built by the owner and founder of the company and boasts excellent call quality.

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1301 (used to be called ZeroP) is a service for dialling from the United Kingdom only which uses access numbers to give free phone calls! No need to change your telephone provider simply dial 1301 from a BT line or 0808 142 1301 from any other line (including a mobile) and you can access cheap rates and to certain countries free call time. A small connection fee is applied to every call made.

There is no sign-up fee, and you simply register the phones, landline or mobile, that you want to make calls from on the 1301 website.

Note that the 1301 system will not work if you are subscribed to BT Light.

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