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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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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Poketalk used to offer free phone calls to landlines because the calls were sponsored by advertising. However, recently their service has changed and they are not longer offering free calls. However, they offering very cheap international phone calls.

Poketalk offer cheap phone calls to landlines, and in some countries to mobile phones too, using your existing telephone. You start the call online by entering both the number you’re calling from and the destination number and PokeTALK connect you.

You must first register at the PokeTALK website, which is free. There are no connection fees and no downloads.

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Tpad is a phone network offering free and cheap call rates for landline, mobile and VoIP calls. Use Tpad at home on your computer as Voip telephony, call international numbers from your mobile phone at local calling rates using access numbers, or make free calls from your mobile when in a wifi area. Tpad works on a computer, an IP phone, and ATA adapter and a wifi enabled mobile phone.

Tpad Voip for the Home

If you create a free account at Tpad you get a free inbound phone number and can make cheap internet calls to landlines and mobiles, and free calls to other Tpad users. To do this you need to download the Tpad software to your computer – there are choices of software and within the different versions there is compatibility with Windows, Mac and Linux systems.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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