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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Reliance Global Call is an international long distance telecom provider, offering cheap calls to India and many other countries worldwide. Currently, you can use the service from within the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and India and call to over 200 countries.

There are many ways to use the Reliance Global services, but you need to sign up for an account and register the phones that you want to make calls from – landline and cellular phones. By registering the phones that you will use (and you can register up to 6 phone numbers on the pay later service and four on the pre-pay service) this means that you don’t need to dial any pin numbers or access numbers before making your call. Good call quality over a fibre optic network.

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Talkety is a telecom network provider offering very cheap rates for international calls. Calls are initiated online by entering your own telephone number (landline or mobile) and your destination number – your phone will then ring and you will be connected. You can phone almost any country in the world with Talkety.

You must register in order to use the service and Talkety will call you back to verify your telephone number and ask you to enter a code generated on the website. Add credit to your account and you can start to make cheap international phone calls. Because you start the calls from the website, there is no software to download and no other equipment needed other than your existing telephone.

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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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