Free calling via landline through your PC

I do that to call my mom most of the time. I don't like to pay anything monthly that I don't have to so I use one of 3 sites - voipbuster, voipwise and voip stunt. THe way it works is that I feel up my account with 10 euros - minimum but I never put more than that. Imediately I have about 4 months free calling - I am allowed 60 minutes a day, anything over that is paid. To Portugal it is about 1 cent a minute. I call Portugal from Canada and I call from my computer to my mom's landline, but I can also dial the number and have it call my landline phone and then my mom's landline, but for that I have to pay a few cents extra. In my case since I have computer and my mom doesn't it works really well. At the end of the free time if I still have money in my account the calls will be charge at 1 cent per minute - the price changes depending on the countries but most are 1 cent a minute. This is how I make all my long distance oversea calls. If I want to call a cell phone then I have to pay, and it's not one cent anymore, but it's fine for me because my mom doesn't have a cell phone anyways. I discovered this last year while my daughter was in Portugal for one year and it worked so well, I would talk to her over the phone for an hour each day.

Good article. I use Magic Jack along with one of the lesser known VOIP services that works through through the broadband without the need for the computer to be powered up. For broadband users these services provide remarkable savings, and not only do they offer nearly unlimited calling, but the features are amazing. Best of all, we are still using the same number we had on our land line phone for close to 30 years. VOIP is wonderful.

Our #1 son is headed back to Iraq (he's in Kuwait now) so we're waiting to see what kind of phone arrangements he'll have. I wonder if one of these services might work. Thanks for the information.