No More Free Calls

[Satellite 1]

Both Voipcheap and InternetFree have changed their rates from Free to 0.020 for landlines to Russia. Still Free for Moscow and St. Petersburg. This royally sucks. Anyone know any other VOIP service that is free to landlines to Russia.

http://www.voipcheap.com/en/index.html

http://www.internetcalls.com/en/index.html

[2xHollyx2 3]

Skype? www.skype.com

Make free PC to PC calls from your computer – yep free calls to other people on Skype and great rates to phones and mobiles across the world.

unlimited calls to landlines: http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/subscript.../uscanadaworld/

[Corey-Mariya 14]

Why dont you guys use skype? All you have to do is to download this programm to your computer and get a web camera, its free and you'll be able to see person you're talking with

[obender 0]

that's what voipcheap.com did then... Satellite, thanks for pointing that out, I thought my free call period expired again.

voipcheap is still cheaper than skype for russian landlines. sorry, I got no alternative for you...

obender

[Satellite 1]

Why don’t you guys use Skype? All you have to do is to download this program to your computer and get a web camera, its free and you'll be able to see person you're talking with

I would love to Skype or even use Voipcheap in reverse, meaning they call a US number from Russia. But my relatives do not have high speed interest, as a matter of fact there are no copper, fiber optic, or cable wires at their home, yet they live just a few kilometers from the city center. Because of that internet is not possible. They have interest access only through a cell phone tethered to the computer as a modem, and that runs $0.22 a MG, which is both very slow and costly if used with Skype or any other PC to PC program.

[russ 1]

I would love to Skype or even use Voipcheap in reverse, meaning they call a US number from Russia. But my relatives do not have high speed interest, as a matter of fact there are no copper, fiber optic, or cable wires at their home, yet they live just a few kilometers from the city center. Because of that internet is not possible. They have interest access only through a cell phone tethered to the computer as a modem, and that runs $0.22 a MG, which is both very slow and costly if used with Skype or any other PC to PC program.

It is also worth pointing out that many ISP's in Russia charge per MB even for DSL, which would quickly erode your savings with skype. Plus, Skype is klunky, requiring you to be at your computer.

I have actual Voip telephones (Polycom), Cisco makes good ones too. The good ones are all expensive, but have much better quality. My phones terminate through XO (big company that does this), and costs about 7 cents a minute to most of Russia.

The best way to go would be to buy your own voip handset (I use these guys - http://www.voipsupply.com/ ), plug it into your router at home with a long ethnet cable, and signup for SIP termination (hundreds of companies do this for cheap.) I pay $1.49/month for a phone number in the US, plus $0.01/minute for US calls and about $0.07 to Russian landlines (Maybe 2 cents a minute to Moscow). This is cheap enough for me, and highly reliable.

[slim 1,530]

I just tell my wife not to call so much.

Also, having her pay for her own phone cards seems to work pretty well.

[Brad and Vika 129]

[Corey-Mariya 14]

Guys! I was not talking about calling russian landlines via skype, I was talking about using skype to call from computer to computer! Its free and you can look at each other, that's how I talk to my parents

[Brad and Vika 129]

I keep hearing from all over about skype, and why don't I have it, etc. Five years ago, ICQ was all the rage in Europe, and I did the IM and later talk thing with it. I understand skype can let you talk computer-to-computer, but Vika's relatives do not have (and apparently there is no infrastructure for) high speed transmission in their homes. We use Euro Mama phone cards from LD post (about six cents per minute), and it seems to work fine. Also, the dollars attached to each PIN help to regulate the expense. Am I just missing something?

[Neonred 3,609]

We also noticed the change over from "free" to 2 cents per minute to landline phones. Sad, but still a LOT better than 6 or 7 cents a minute from most other cards and carriers. The only free deals now are to Moscow or St Pete.

I'll just be happy with 2 cents per minute as I can remember some years back (before everyone had cell phones) when a call state to state was a good deal at 10 cents a minute.

[Satellite 1]

Guys! I was not talking about calling Russian landlines via skype, I was talking about using skype to call from computer to computer! Its free and you can look at each other, that's how I talk to my parents

And Russ, Neonred, and I have been trying to explain to you that interest is too expensive or high speed is not available in many parts of Russia to make PC to PC work. Thus in my example doing PC to PC would cost almost a $1.00 a minute if you calculate the interest cost on the Russian side.