How To Make Free Phone Calls

How To Make Free Phone Calls

VoIP has changed not only the way we make calls, but what we pay for them.
Before VoIP came around, nobody could even think of making free phone calls except perhaps for those 1800 calls.

But VoIP changed all that.

Free Phone Calls From Your Computer

When VoIP first arrived on the scene we were very much excited by the idea of making totally free calls around the world.

Here was something not heard of before. Now we could make free national and international calls without any problem or hassles. But the novelty and excitement soon wore off as such calls became rather common as more and more softphones came on the market.

Free Calls To Landline and Mobile Phones

Now the idea of free phone calls, meaning free calls from computer to landline or mobile phones, is what engages our mind.

The reasoning is that if VoIP can provide free computer to computer calls, why shouldn't there be a way to make free calls to telephones and mobiles all over the world?

However such pc to landline phones don't come free. The reason for this is that when you make a call from your computer to a landline or mobile phone, your voice starts from a computer but ends over a landline or mobile phone. And that phone company naturally expects to be paid for this service.

This is the reason the most VoIP providers charge you a small amount when they allow you to make such calls.

Does This Mean You Can't Make Free Phone Calls?

No, it doesn't. There are a number of VoIP providers which allow you to make free phone calls even to international destinations.

If you wonder how can they do that, let me tell you that these calls are not handouts or pure giveaways. VoIP providers earn their keep in various ways to enable you to make free pc to phone calls.

How Free Phone Calling Works

For making free calls, you may have to look at some ads or listen to audio ads. Then there are some providers which allow you free calls for some countries but charge you for others, often asking for a small deposit which remains unused if you make calls to the free countries. Such deposits have usually some fixed period of validity, meaning that it would lapse if the amount is not used in so many ways.

So in the end it means that there are no free phone calls as such. They are to be paid for in ways other than money from your pocket.

How You Get Free Talk Time

Your free calls come in various ways and hues:

Some providers will give you free calls to one or two countries while while with others you have choice of a large number of destinations which you can call for free.

These VoIP providers also vary in the free time they give you. Here you will find that there are a number of VoIP providers which give you unlimited free talk time while others limit you to so many minutes per month or week or so many minutes to specific destinations.