Free Internet Phone Calls

Jajah has inaudibly placed another product in the VOIP bazaar which uses a local number to make international calls. After taking over Yahoo Voice, Jajah is on the move.

Jajah in recent times completed one  billionth call on their network which is really an achievement for a VOIP Provider initially launched itself as Free VOIP Provider.

Jajah has launched Go Jajah service in Italy. The Go Jajah service is developed with local provider Funambol which can automatically update a mobile phone address book, creating a local number for each international number. When this number is dialed, the call is connected automatically.

If you are living in italy and using voip you can start using  www.Jajah.com

I have made lots of post about making Free calls to India, on the other hand we have seen that voip call rates to Pakistan have increased in the past one year.

Now, call rates to Pakistan are very expensive (a lot of voip providers offering rates greater than 10 cents). But I will tell a solution so that you can make Free calls from Pakistan by following some steps “Free calls to Pakistan” (actually you can connect to your friends in Pakistan).

Connect2Pk.com offers Free calls from Pakistan. Its a Phone to PC and the same time  PC to PC call solution. Connect2Pk offers local Pakistan phone numbers (Karachi, Islamabad etc) dialing which you can connect to the person on PC application. So, if you register with Pakistan phone number  and ask them to dial the Pakistan local phone number (Connect2pk number) then this call will be forwarded to your PC application. (So your loved one is on Phone and you on your PC).

Are you thinking the step I told seems to be very tough and complicated? Then  let me try to put this in simple steps.
• Assuming that you are living in USA, UK or in UAE and you want to talk to your family living in Pakistan.
• Assuming that your Family has either a landline phone or a mobile phone. And you have a PC with broadband phone.

Steps for free calls to Pakistan -:

1. Register with Connect2Pk.com
Now in the Mapped number field (enter your family number in Pakistan).

2. Download their PC application (it is nothing but x-lite). You can also configure fring to receive calls directly on your mobile phone. You will get SIP settings in your email.

SIP settings -:
Display Name – Connect2Pk
USername -: Your username
Password -: Your password
Domain -: connect2pk.com:5065

3. Now ask your parents to call local Pakistan Connect2pk numbers. Any one of the local access numbers which is cheap or free for your parents in Pakistan. Any of following numbers.

• 021-7016586 (Karachi)
• 041-5529224 (Faisalabad)
• 042-2008625 (Lahore)
• 051-7185152 (Islamabad) new!

4. Now the question is how your family will know to call this number. (Hey you have to tell them…!! either fix daily time or adjust accordingly).

5. You will receive a phone call directly to x-lite configured phone or your mobile (if you configures fring).

Few more points to be noticed here are -:
• 20min/call, round the clock!
• 4-10am, 45min/call
So, this way you can connect to your loved ones in Pakistan for free. The only cost being your friends/relatives(living in Pakistan) calling to Pakistan local number (this charge will most probably very cheap or it may be free (mobile cap minutes)).

For more info, you may refer to Connect2pk (do check their FAQ section). You may also post their queries in comment section of this blog.

Being I am not from Pakistan I have no real experience with Connect2PK.If anyone of you have used connect2pk before, then please post your reviews and correct me if I am wrong in giving calling procedure details.

JAJAH has been nominated for TiE50 award, as a leader in novelty, ingenuity, and management excellence. The TiE50 award is presented by TiE at TiEcon2009 to the top 50 startups from close to 1,200 nominees, with the winners representing the hottest and most talented startups.

JAJAH’s IP voice and messaging policy allows service providers, Internet companies, mobile operators and enterprises to organize and manage new, value-adding services and solutions with small investment and time to market. With a wide  range of customer and business IP telephony solutions, JAJAH’s platform ensures that its associates meet the needs of their customers today, and in the future.

More over JAJAH’s the newly  introduced suite of Mobile VoIP applications for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian and the Apple iPod touch, which essentially turns any iPod touch into an iPhone. Most popular service from jajah is  ‘JAJAH Direct’ which enables  any user to place very cheap voip phone calls and  global calls from their  landline or mobile phone by just dialing a local number.More over JAJAH also has a suite of IP communications services for the enterprise from combined communications tools to SIP Trunking

Skype is a free download software to call worldwide with no cost.Using Skype’s free software in your computer  with your internet connection  you can talk with free Skype-to-Skype calls and with out considering the about cost, time or distance. Tell your friends to download the skype totally free from the link here , so you can talk, instant message (IM) or make video calls for nothing. Beside that its possible to  make local, long distance and international calls to phones and mobiles at great rates too.

Voipian is a new voice over IP (VoIP) based telephony service. To make use of Voipian you can down load and use the free Voipian software and  turn your computer into an internet phone and make cheap phone call or even free PC to Phone calls to anyone around the word. Calls made within the Voipian network are always free of charge and you can talk unlimited minutes.

Calling your friends within the Voipian network are always completely FREE of cost. Calls made to all other destinations can be made at very cheap phone call rates. All phone call rates are calculated in Eurocent. And main advantage of Voipian is that it doesn’t requires no setup fees, no monthly fees and charges no connection fees!

And for those who are working in gulf countries like UAE, Qatar, Soudi Arabia, Oman etc Voipian voip website is not blocked or banned by Etisalat or other internet operators in Gulf countries.

For Past few weeks we were discussing about mainly on VOIP phone call blocking in UAE and solutions.Today I am introducing one new service provider for toll free numbers which is RingCentral. Its Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses peoples.
RingCentral provides a toll free or local phone number and advanced features which is not normally finds in our traditional telephone systems.
You can increase your business image and accessibility rapidly with a toll free number. The toll free number gives a nationwide, big business image and allows customers to call you for free, making it more likely that they’ll call. Activated immediately, your toll free number comes with the complete line of RingCentral advanced telephone and fax features that gives you all the functions of a PBX without the expenses.
The main features of RingCentral are as below
Toll Free Numbers , Local Numbers , Voicemail , Internet Fax , Virtual PBX ,Extensions ,Dial-by-name Directory ,Call Forwarding ,Answering Rules ,Call screening ,Call Controller + Soft Phone ,Message Alerts ,Music on Hold ,Click-to-Call Out ,Click-to-Call Me ,Outlook Integration ,Call Logs ,Calling Card ,Recorded Greetings ,Unified Messaging ,Auto Attendant , Digital Line VoIP

Last week we were talking about freecall ,Actionvoip, inter voip etc blocked in UAE.
Now I am introducing smartvoip , a very cheap voip provider for making calls to India.we can say now its the  cheapest Phone call rate to India
Smart VOIP is a betamax creation and now they are offering calls to India at 0.005 eurocents making it the lowest VOIP call to India even cheaper than actionvoip. If you not considering few cents its free phone calls to India.
The new rates are effective immediately so if you already making calls with smartVOIP, you should have noticed the rate change.

Apart from this low voip rate Smart VOIP also gives SIP support that means you can make use of SmartVOIP over SIP Phone or any supported SIP tool.

You can use following SIP settings for smartvoip:
SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.smartvoip.com
Proxy server : sip.smartvoip.com
Outbound proxy server : leave empty
Account name : your SmartVoip username
Password : your SmartVoip password
Display name/number : your SmartVoip username or voipnumber
Stunserver (option) : stun.smartvoip.com

I haven’t tried to use this cheap voip. But the people who used smartvoip has a good opinion about the voice quality.