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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Yak is a Canadian telecom service with several features: Home Phone, Long Distance Plans, Long Distance Cell and High Speed Internet, among others. It’s not a voip service but a standard telephone network and is available in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

There are no access fees and the only monthly fee you will pay is if you choose to receive a paper invoice rather than an electronic one. This incurs a fee of $1.95 per month, but is waived for the over 65s. The system also enables access to emergency numbers.

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TeleTop is a UK cheap call provider that you can use when dialing from landline or mobile phones. It’s free to call certain countries, such as Spain, but you do pay a connection fee and there is a charge to top-up. However, they offer very cheap rates (sometimes free) and there is no account to set up.

There are various charges you will incur when using this service. You need to dial a premium rate number (0911 033 2525) to purchase credit - this call will cost you £1.50. There is a connection fee of 5p for every call. Finally, you will pay a normal call rate (to BT for example) to dial the TeleTop network before accessing their cheap international call rates (but this is the case for most over-ride phone providers).

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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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