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Completely Free Calls to 28 Countries from Home Phone!

I am in a quandary! I have found a way to make completely free calls to landlines in 28 countries (including UK) plus mobiles in three countries! No registration required! No connection fee! No time-based charge! When I say FREE I mean FREE! All you need is a UK landline, computer and internet connection!

So, why am I in a quandary? Because, if I tell you how to do it, the company which offers the service will simply close down the loophole and I will lose my free calls!

So, what do I do?

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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Keep it to yourself of course!
  • keefrto
    keefrto Posts: 281 Forumite
    Well share and share alike I say! Could always pm people if you want:j
    Currently 4 me its Rogers Contract cell phone, REBTEL.COM is the best mobile making and receiving calls to/from UK and Canada:beer:
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
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    keefrto wrote:
    Well share and share alike I say! Could always pm people if you want:j

    But someone I PM is bound to tell someone else, who will tell someone else, who will tell someone else... who will publish it on the internet! Look what happened to the freephone number for Directory Enquiries!
  • pjala
    pjala Posts: 420 Forumite
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    You would get thanked loads of times though!
  • Paul_Varjak
    Paul_Varjak Posts: 4,627 Forumite
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    pjala wrote:
    You would get thanked loads of times though!

    OK, I give in! But everyone that visits this thread must thank me, OK?

    Go to www.internetcalls.com/en/callpanel.php and use the option to make FREE calls. It used to be time-limited to one minute but this has now been extended to five minutes.

    Just enter your own number and destination number in international format, beginning 0044. When your phone rings, answer it and wait for the outgoing call to connect.

    To call 0845 and 0870 numbers for free, just use www.internetcalls.com/en/callpanel.php to call Directory Enquiries on 0161 951 0016 and tell them the company you require. They will connect you if the number begins 01, 02 or 08.

    You may also like to try the Call Panel of another Fianarea offering: http://www.freecall.com/en/callpanel.php

    Thanks to Redux for his thoughts on this contribution
  • redux
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    I reckon there's a couple of ways to make free calls between the landlines of 30 to 50 countries, and you don't need a landline, computer or internet connection, just a mobile and pay a few pence data cost

    In fact at the moment there is also a way to call about 30 countries' landlines from a mobile for only 5 pence per call, but that isn't likely to last.

    Roaming costs with a mobile might get down to 1 or 3 cents a minute, plus a couple of quid a month, but this is a tariff mistake, so 8 or 10 cents is more likely long-term

    Getting mobile to mobile calls down to 4 pence a minute needs a bit more work ...

    I'll swap ya some ...
  • Paul_Varjak
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    redux wrote:
    It's safe to tell me Paul. I reckon there's a couple of ways to make free calls between the landlines of 30 to 50 countries, and you don't need a landline, computer or internet connection, just a mobile and pay a few pence data cost
    So, not free, and I know how to do it anyway!
    redux wrote:
    In fact at the moment there is also a way to call about 30 countries' landlines from a mobile for only 5 pence per call, but that isn't likely to last.
    So, not free!
    redux wrote:
    Roaming costs with a mobile might get down to 1 or 3 cents a minute, plus a couple of quid a month
    So, expensive now and maybe cheaper (but not free) in the future!
    redux wrote:
    Getting mobile to mobile calls down to 4 pence a minute needs a bit more work ...
    Emigrate to Russia and pay 2p/minute mobile to mobile (even cross-network) - at all times, and pay no line rental!
    redux wrote:
    I'll swap ya some ...

    See my post above on how to do it for free!
  • redux
    redux Posts: 22,976 Forumite
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    ok, so I wrote that post too slowly and missed your post in between ;)


    Apparently they've had some server problems recently, so maybe the reason that the availability of free trial calls has outlasted expectations is that the tracking on these was being lost.

    So it's possible that if/when this ends, it won't be because they read this and stopped it, but that the loophole already wasn't meant to exist and will have been repaired.
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