Free calls from your mobile phone is, usually, kind of a misnomer. No matter which side of the Atlantic or Pacific you're on, it costs money to make a phone call on your mobile phone. At least, of course, if you use the carrier's network to do it.
Enter WiFi-enabled handsets such as many of the Nokia Nseries and Eseries devices. If you also include a SIP stack-and many of these phones include it-you can make and receive calls using your mobile phone without even touching the mobile carrier's network. Truphone, which we've written about before, makes use of this functionality.
Poromenos has come up with some instructions that will allow you to use another calling solution from your SIP-enabled Nokia Nseries or Eseries device to make free calls. The service is called VoipBuster, and has been around for quite some time. Not all calls are free, and there are some limitations. Go check out the VoipBuster site for more details.
Have you used VoipBuster? Have you tried using your WiFi-enabled Nokia device to make free (or cheaper) VoIP calls? Share your experiences in the comments.
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Yes, I have used Voipbuster and many other Betamax offers on my Nokia E61. They work just great. I guess that Betamax, Voipbuster’s mothership, is one of the world’s biggest VoIP providers. But nobody knows that for sure because Betamax is so tight-lipped.
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Hi Dameon,
I used Truphone and didn’t like the way it impacted my mobile phone set up, calling vm became two button presses rather than one etc.
I now use jajah and set up calls from either a mobile web browser or my PC and from either my mobile or my home PC, I’ve made 3 calls within the last few days saving myself 3.85ukp.
I’ve also got skype too, but don’t use it to call landlines only other skype users
That VoIP set up works for me.
I’m following VoIP trends closely including opportunities to get it for free, so thanks for this info. The dual use phones are going to be big in a year or two as soon as muni WiFi goes in. You can get VoIP for free with the Global Freedom phone – plus if you want you can also make residual income on what’s sure to be a telecom revolution. More people need to know this is out there.
What an unfortunate name: betamax. No wonder they don’t want it publicized.
Good point on how services like Truphone impact your normal call dialing.
By the way, Betamax have just launched a new service called nonoh.net (I guess Jajah people love that name…) with free calls to Chinese fixed and mobile phones. For those of us who live in China and are on a free incoming calls plan, this means free calls to many destinations (including all of China) without leaving the carrier’s network.
Learn how to make totally FREE phone calls and sms worldwide (including INDIA) then visit this site http://callsforfree.blogspot.com/
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I live in UAE, where exorbitant call rates are charged for outgoing calls from this country. I have been using justvoip to call India( PC to Phone) for quite sometime now and I find it very cheap considering the telecom providers rates here.Then I came across this ‘ nonoh.net ‘ service and found out the rates to India are cheaper than justvoip, so I bought EURO 10.00 credit.
But when I tried to call India I was charged 16 eurocents/min instead of 2.4 eurocents/min( almost 7 times more ).Then I came to know that I was being charged for my call on my mobile in UAE as well. Since nonoh does not have a PC to Phone facility this is gross misleading of consumers by promoting it as the cheapest voip call provider.Now I really dont know how to make use of my 10 euro credit in my nonoh account because nonoh charges 14 cents/min to connect to my mobile.
I find Justvoip better considering the fact they offer PC to phone as well as Phone to phone service, and there is no connecting charge as well.
If anybody knows any nonoh phonesoftware where we can make calls from PC to Phone ( by which I can save 14c/min ) Please respond in this blog.
It may simply be a matter of nonoh having a SIP proxy, in which case you could use any SIP client to make a PC-to-Phone call. Or you could use a VoIP-enabled Nokia phone as discussed in this article.
I find Justvoip better considering the fact they offer PC to phone as well as Phone to phone service, and there is no connecting charge as well. If anybody knows any nonoh phonesoftware where we can make calls from PC to Phone ( by which I can save 14c/min ) Please respond in this blog.
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