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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Budget Com is a UK call service with exceptionally cheap rates to many countries.  They are an over-ride provider, so you use your existing phone with the Budgetcom access numbers to make cheap international phone calls. No need to set up an account as you are billed through your existing service provider’s invoice, such as BT or NTL.

The service is only available from United Kingdom telephones (including mobiles). All access numbers are published on the Budgetcom website, so simply look up the access number for the country that you want to call, dial that access number, followed by the international number. It’s as simple as that and there is no account to set up, you just dial.

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DialToSave is a UK service for international dialing – you have to be within the UK to use the service. Their phone rates are very cheap and you can call from either a landline phone or a mobile phone by using access numbers.

There are two ways to use the DialToSave service: The cheapest is to purchase credit first, and you can do this by sending a text to the specified number (if using a mobile) or topping up via PayPal. You then dial the access number provided for the country you’re calling followed by the international number your calling.

The second method is called InstantTalk. Dial the InstantTalk access number (which is always different to the prepaid access number even for the same country) and you will be billed in your usual telecom provider’s invoice.

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Mootel offers cheap international phone calls from both landlines and mobile phones in the UK. They cover many worldwide destinations, have competitive rates and various ways to dial, pay and top-up your account. This service can’t be used for making national calls within the UK, only international calls from the UK.

How to make cheap international calls using Mootel

1. With Mootel’s Instant Dial service there is no need to open an account, as you will be invoiced through your existing telephone bill. Simply use the access number for the country you want to dial followed by your international number.

You will hear a message before you’re connected letting you know how much per minute you will be charged by Mootel. You will pay the cost of a local call to your existing telecom provider (e.g. BT) for the connection to the Mootel network.

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StanaCard is a calling card that gives you one touch speed dialing, with no additional hidden fees such as connection charges – the rates quoted include all taxes and fees, so what you see is what you get. These cheap international phone rates are very competitive and there are no access numbers or pin codes.

StanaCard refer to their system as a calling card, but it’s not a card, in fact what happens is that you are given a ‘SmartDial’ number for every telephone number you want to call. You can assign a SmartDial number to a national, international or mobile number. You then simply dial the SmartDial number directly from your landline, mobile or office phone to access the StanaCard cheap phone rates. This service is available in the following countries: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA – and you can dial to many more countries (virtually worldwide).

You can assign up to 20 SmartDial numbers on your account.

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ZenoFon is a USA based telephone service which lets you dial overseas numbers or US numbers using a local US number and therefore accessing cheaper rates. You can allocate up to 20 phone numbers, getting a local number for each one.

When you register you need to give the telephone numbers that you will be dialing from, for example, your home phone number and cell phone number. Then you can add your contacts – add up to 20 overseas or USA telephone numbers and they will each be allocated a local US phone number. You can then save these local numbers in your home or cell phone for easy dialing.

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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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