ANY CHEAP WAY TO CALL PHILIPPINES OR INDONESIA???

[Dean iWait 0]

I pay 16 cents/minute plus $4/month with Qwest.

I used to use Qwest. The 16 cents a minute is only to a land line. If you call mobile it's 23 cents a min. I got rid of Qwest and I'm using a cheaper service. 16.5 cents to mobile, 12.4 cents to land line. No monthly fees!! No maintenence fees! Get free referral minutes by clicking the link.

http://www.talkloop.com/ref/ref.aspx?l=1BFF48CA4C44101

I tried talkloop but the sound quality sucked. I think they are routing calls on VOIP.

I've had really good luck with them so far. Every once in while we get a bad connection. My girl has DSL now so thinking of trying the Vonage route.

[cguytx 0]

I've used a VOIP service for home phone for a couple of years now and it has been pretty solid www.lingo.com when my wife's parents can get broadband service to their home we are going to ship another lingo box to them and get them a local us phone number. Lingo offers a flat rate lingo to lingo box phone plan for $7.95 a month.

http://www.lingo.com/voip/residential/link...one_service.jsp

[JelloShotGirl 0]

ANY CHEAP WAY TO CALL PHILIPPINES OR INDONESIA?

Oh my Gosh!!! $700 a month..... check out speedypin.com you can select where you are calling to and from.. different prices of calling cards... you can buy them online and have pin number immediately. I have used to call canada... my last purchase was $20 and had 21 hours of calling time.. good luck

Hey , do you have verizon for ur telephone company I see ur from new york- "waiting for goozy" I have verizon for local and long distance. I have some plan that costs like 4.95 per month and I call philippines cellfon for 16 cents per minute, 12 cents/min to landline. That is good for fone calls that are not too long! harr harr! The majority of the time we use yahoo messenger! totally Free!!!!! we have call eachother on the pc at about the same time each day, so it works out fine, somtimes problem if rainy weather here... or there.... but for the most part yahoo messenger is great ! All the two of you need is a computer and a headset. We have been happy with that!I dont know what we would do without that ! I know we would more broke than we already are!

[shefellfromheaven 18]

$80/month unlimited both directions http://www.pinoycalls.com/

Cox cable recently offered a Philippines plan that's $8.95/mo and includes the first 60 minutes. Additional minutes are 13 cents/min

VONAGE OR SKYPE ALL THE WAY.....Vonage cost me $25 per month and i talk as long as I want.

I also use my skype for free calls.

Thought about Vonage. But my cell is my only phone so I don't think that works.

Even if you only have a cell it would still work.....sign up with Vonage then send the phone

adaptor to you SO so she can call you and you can call her any time and it's a local call.

For me this is a God sent. My bill was running over $1000.00 per month before Vonage.

Vonage has been great for calling within the US but Kenya is not in their package and even though the UK is supposed to be included I found out the hard way that not all numbers in the UK are included. And the cost of calls not covered in their plan is much higher than even just using a cellphone. So, before signing up for vonage call them and ask them if specific numbers are covered, not just locations but ask about the number(s) you will be calling.

And yes I sympathize with all of you. My bill was around $1500 for a few months. NOw I am 'trying' to use Pingo. When I can connect and the reception is at least good enough to have a conversation the cost is great. All of these obstacles can be tough but, hey she's more than worth it.

[JelloShotGirl 0]

try jajah.com or........ yahoo messenger if the other party got a headset or u can send one and u get one for urself..........................its free the pc to pc calling ..............................i dont know if ur relatives got computer at home , if so that is great way to communicate. For emergency calls we would just use phone but when we just wanted to talk and talk and talk we use the free yahoo messenger it save so much money!

[martin206 0]

Have the person call you using the web site http://bueno.com/. They can call anywhere in the U S for free.

[David & Anne 0]

Skype is the cheapest I know.

I just got skype to use on my cell phone and it gives you a special phone number to dial... its like dialing a number in the states. If you use your computer you can use a headset or hook a phoe adapter up to your cpu and use it like a norman house phone.

[Scottmn 0]

any updates on this topic? Surely there must be a free or very inexpensive way to call now?

[P A U L 14]

skype is expensive to start off with, i mean, if you're going to call from skype to her phone. skype to skype is free. there are other video chat apps, like yahoo, google video chat, voxer(?), and many many others.

google voice, in my opinion, is the cheapest. but it will use your cellphone's regular minutes. there are ways around this, by dialing out through the computer, or using an app called talkatone on the iphone. (i don't know methods for non iphones). you will need a google voice number, which is free.

http://speedypin.com check there for phone cards. i just saw this through this thread, and seems .3c cheaper for me to call russia than google voice. but there are all these other fees involved, i didn't want to look into it. i'm comfortable with google voice.

google voice rates:

Country Google Voice rate per minute USD

Philippines - Landline 11¢

Philippines - Mobile 15¢

Edited November 19, 2012 by P A U L

[dreamwarrior 0]

Magicjack. Skype. Nimbuzz (what I use). costs 2c a min. Or you could use yahoo voice for free

Edited January 13, 2013 by dreamwarrior

[LmmL 46]

I need to know too. This is an old thread, i think there must be something new to share here. Any update?

Please share something which is not using internet connection, since my parents are not used to the internet.

[phonekall 0]

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Edited October 21, 2013 by phonekall

[Mecom 0]

Hi, from USA calling cards you can check the rates on http://www.epincall.com/ for countries I call it gives very low rates and good voice quality.