Voice over internet

[ursy 0]

I am going bankrupt making international calls. I want to make very cheap calls to nigeria over the internet for less than 5cent a min or less but i need another company besides voip.com does anyone have any suggestions of other companies that offer this service. I will be calling a land line in Nigeria or a mobile.

[vartan 0]

go to alosmart.com and check their rate finder.. i found landline phone cards as cheap as 1.8cent a min. cell as cheap as 2.9cents

oh over the internet? not sure.

Edited August 6, 2006 by vartan

[jamrok 0]

I am going bankrupt making international calls. I want to make very cheap calls to nigeria over the internet for less than 5cent a min or less but i need another company besides voip.com does anyone have any suggestions of other companies that offer this service. I will be calling a land line in Nigeria or a mobile.

I was spending a fortune on phone calls until somebody told me to sign UP with Vonage.

I signed up with Vonage, send the adaptor to my fiance so she can call me and I can call her

and it's a local call no charge.

[Alex+R 0]

www.skype.com

[dalegg 143]

voipcheap.com (not to be confused with voip.com) is 3 cents a minute to a Nigeria landline, and according to the site, that a SuperDeal!

[MrMrsKnight 0]

www.skype.com

[dalegg 143]

www.skype.com

For some reason I could never get skype to work on my PC. Don't know why.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I am going bankrupt making international calls. I want to make very cheap calls to nigeria over the internet for less than 5cent a min or less but i need another company besides voip.com does anyone have any suggestions of other companies that offer this service. I will be calling a land line in Nigeria or a mobile.

I was spending a fortune on phone calls until somebody told me to sign UP with Vonage.

I signed up with Vonage, send the adaptor to my fiance so she can call me and I can call her

and it's a local call no charge.

You need to clarify that it only works when your SO has internet access at home (pc to pc). Otherwise, Vonage charges just about the same rate per minute as the competitors (from computer to landline or mobil).

[Eli 0]

For some reason I could never get skype to work on my PC. Don't know why.

Me neither. And then suddenly 3 weeks ago it started working. Made my day

MrMrsKnight: I have no idea why, but somehow your timeline and profile pic made me feel like crying, as in "awwwwww! I feel for you..." No idea, maybe because you're only a couple years older than me

[Fandango 1,439]

I think to call a mobile, you're going to pay premium rates no matter what!

Check Vonage out to see if YOU can get svc & whether or not you can get a 'virtual number'...you then can choose a number that's in your fiance's area so he/she can call you from the mobby. It would add up his/her minutes in the plan, but it would be a local call, and you then don't pay anything.

And I'd hazzard a guess that paying for extra airtime would be cheaper than calling the mobby from the US

[sparkofcreation 0]

I think to call a mobile, you're going to pay premium rates no matter what!

Check Vonage out to see if YOU can get svc & whether or not you can get a 'virtual number'...you then can choose a number that's in your fiance's area so he/she can call you from the mobby. It would add up his/her minutes in the plan, but it would be a local call, and you then don't pay anything.

And I'd hazzard a guess that paying for extra airtime would be cheaper than calling the mobby from the US

I think the suggestion above is a good one if your fiancé(e) has broadband in his/her home--buy the adaptor here with a local number for yourself, then send him/her the adaptor. That way (since the adaptor has a US number) to call the US from it would be included in the free minutes.

Don't know if that's a practical suggestion for the OP, though.

[Alex+R 0]

Well now I'm considering Vonage. What I want is to call Rey from my American cell phone to his Brazilian cell phone. I was thinking, buy a Vonage thing (or a VOIP thing?), send it to him, he hooks it up to his internet, and voila? I don't need an adaptor thingy myself? Am I correct, or is it completely different and I'm just really bad with understanding technology?

We use Skypeout now because I have a Mac and skype doesn't work on my computer, only his, so he calls me from our skypeout account.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'd like to know why it is virtually free (you pay a monthly service fee) to connect your pc with anywhere in the world via the internet, but international phone rates have always been on a per minute charge? It seems like a racket to me. I mean does it actually cost these companies any more to connect phones? Just doesn't make any sense.

[sparkofcreation 0]

Well now I'm considering Vonage. What I want is to call Rey from my American cell phone to his Brazilian cell phone. I was thinking, buy a Vonage thing (or a VOIP thing?), send it to him, he hooks it up to his internet, and voila? I don't need an adaptor thingy myself? Am I correct, or is it completely different and I'm just really bad with understanding technology?

We use Skypeout now because I have a Mac and skype doesn't work on my computer, only his, so he calls me from our skypeout account.

No, the phone is attached to the Vonage adapter. So you could call his landline [i.e. the one attached to the Vonage adaptor] from your cell phone that way (and it would be included in your cell's minutes just as if you were calling someone's landline here), but not his cell phone. Or if you kept the adaptor for yourself, you could call his cell phone from your landline [again, the one attached to the Vonage adaptor] for 17¢/min, but not from your cell phone.

Edited August 6, 2006 by sparkofcreation

[Alex+R 0]

Well now I'm considering Vonage. What I want is to call Rey from my American cell phone to his Brazilian cell phone. I was thinking, buy a Vonage thing (or a VOIP thing?), send it to him, he hooks it up to his internet, and voila? I don't need an adaptor thingy myself? Am I correct, or is it completely different and I'm just really bad with understanding technology?

We use Skypeout now because I have a Mac and skype doesn't work on my computer, only his, so he calls me from our skypeout account.

No, the phone is attached to the Vonage adapter. So you could call his landline [i.e. the one attached to the Vonage adaptor] from your cell phone that way (and it would be included in your cell's minutes just as if you were calling someone's landline here), but not his cell phone. Or if you kept the adaptor for yourself, you could call his cell phone from your landline [again, the one attached to the Vonage adaptor] for 17¢/min, but not from your cell phone.

Thanks! But #######. Neither of us has a landline. We just have cell phones. I think buying a landline in Brazil might be expensive... damn! Rey seems to think it can work with a cell phone... he must be wrong?