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Posted by: Michael Sunday, June 03, 2007
Hello

I thought I would share some cool information about VOIP and free calls. When travelling you always want to keep in contact with your friends and family.

Calling overseas can sometimes be very costly. You have a few options for making the calls, you can enable your phone for global roaming or buy a local sim card for the country. Both of these options are expensive. My mobile here cost 1 dollar a minute to call AUS. A cheaper way to make oversea's calls is to use VOIP or skype, Skype is fairly cheap but other voip providers are cheaper, alot do free calls to landlines in many countries.

Skype is great for video calls when both parties have a pc and webcam. For outbound calls it is still cheaper than a home phone. Calls to landlines in Australia are about 3c and calls to mobiles are about 30c a minute.

The best I have found are VOIP providers such as voipbuster.com and voipstunt.com.  These company's have free calls to landlines in Australia and 25c calls to mobiles in Australia. These providers do not have applications for macs but they do support the SIP protocol. So to use it on my mac all I needed to do was download a VOIP application that supported SIP.

Because these providers support SIP it is possible to use any VOIP phone that support SIP. So when I return home and have a more stable address I will be able to buy a wireless VOIP phone and use it as a normal house phone only with free phone calls.

I would buy a phone like this.


Michael
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Re: Skype, VOIP and free calls to landlines...    By Allan on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hi Michael,
interested in your article re voipbuster.com I have a MacBook Pro and would like to try making free calls to landlines in Australia. You mentioned that you downloaded a VoIP application that supported SIP.
What application do you recommend?

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