Phone power Voip Phone service Review and coupon

There are always new home phone services coming up in the US Market, obviously not as fast as typical VOIP Web based services. With Vonage, Comcast, Lingo dominating the market, the newer companies often offer something unique as value add. PhonePower is doing just the same.

This offer applies to all existing PhonePower Customers and of course new customers. PhonePower is a newest VOIP home phone service company in the USA and you can start enjoying their services for as low as $8.33/ per month which will give you unlimited free calls to USA and Canada.

PhonePower has 2 plans mainly for residential and small business users. It can get confusing to understand the plans with so many features bundled with it.



I highly recommend signing up for 2 year prepay plan for 2 reasons, you get a second line for free which you can use anywhere you like. Secondly, you pay $200 for 2 years, that means your effective rate for 1 month becomes $200/24 months = $8.33 per month. This is probably the best cheapest VOIP Phone service in the USA which makes it a good option for people looking to save money within USA and Canada during this tough times. Recession is catching up on all of us, do you still want to pay $20 per month to services like Vonage? Think again.

During December, PhonePower is also going to offer free international calls to all phonepower users to many destinations (See below).
United Kingdom,Spain,Ireland,Israel,Germany,Singapore,France,Denmark,Greece,Italy,China.

One of the most striking feature of PhonePower is they don't have any monthly contract like all the rest of the VOIP Providers. That means you can cancel their service if you don't like to use it anymore. If you do this within the first 30 days, its FREE so no cancellation fees. However anything after 30 days, will be charged a cancellation fee. However they won't recover the contract fees from you since there is no contract.

If you are a existing customer, please let us know your review about PhonePower. Please no reviews from Phonepower competitors :-) I know every VOIP Provider lurking on this blog :-)

Free Conferincing call service providers

After discussing Low Cost Conference Callsand Video Conference Calls last week, as promised we today present Free Conference Call Services which will save you huge amount of money on conferencing services.

This post is mainly for SOHO or small business or Individual users who do not like to spend $$$ on Conference Call Services. If you are a professional business users with more than 50-100 employees, we strongly suggest you use one of the Low Cost Conference Calls services.

With the advent of Web 2.0, Conference calling has become virtually FREE. Easy Access number availablity, IP Networks and SIP based telephony has made it easier than ever.

Lets look at conference calling companies which offer free conference calls services. This list has web and non-web based services.

1) FreeConferenceCalls.com: A leading free conference call provider from USA. They offer hassle-free conference calls.

Features:
a) 6 hours per conference, including recording, and there is no limit on how many hours you wish to conference each month.
b)Offer is on continous basis. No deadline for free conference calls.
c) You can record your conference calls.
d) Service available anywhere in the world as long as you can dial their conference bridge number based in USA.

2) CalliFlower (iotum): This is one awesome Free Conference Call service. Developed by fellow blogger, Alec Saunders. It works via Facebook App or calling their conference bridge numbers.

Features:
a) Your phone number is the personal PIN that seamlessly connects you to every call from anywhere in the world.
b) Conference Bridge numbers avilable in USA and France.
c) Powered by reliable Truphone network.
d) Record your conference calls.

3) Rondee: We discovered Rondee when they were not even ready with their free conference calls service. However it seems now their free conference call service is going on well. Its web based free conference service.

Features:
a) Upto 100 participants can use free conference call service.
b) Works via Conference Bridge number and personal PIN (issued when you create a new conference call).
d) Ability to set up a conference call on future dates.

4) OoVoo: Oovoo is a video conference and free conference call service however you need to download their application. We found OoVoo has clean interface and can beat many similar conference call softwares at ease.

Features:
a) Multi people conference
b) Works on Windows and Mac

5) Foonz: Foonz is a basically a group conference call service. When you start a group call, foonz instantly “invites” people to join your call by sending a text message to their cell phones. Every participant gets a Foonz number which they need to dial in order to get connected to the free conference call.

Features:
a) Easy to use
b) Works via Mobile/Landline
c) Connect as many participant as you can.

6) Other Free Conference Call Services: The good old Skype still does great conference calling. You can also use Paltalk or WebEx Free Trial to make conference calls. WebEx

If you know any free conference calls service not discussed here but worth making to the above list, do let us know. has many more features.

Reliance icall Offers free internatonal voip calls

Reliance Globalcom has entered the VOIP space with Reliance iCall. Beware all Free VOIP Providers, Reliance can give you a run for your money. They are now offering totally free international VOIP Calls to multiple locations.

Reliance Globalcom is one of the biggest carriers in the world and now they have launched Reliance iCall. With acquisiton of Flag telecom a few years back, the industry analyst believe over 85% of international call traffic is crossing through reliance network. Thats huge and massive for any telecom company. As we all know because being a leader in telecom, reliance can offer their partner rates as close to 1 cent to India. They are currently offering calls to india at 4.49 cents.

The big news is they are offering free international calls as a part of their launch promotion. You can make totally free international VOIP Calls to the following countries: USA,UK,Canada,Germany,China,France,Australia,Singapore,Japan,Brazil. This includes landling and mobile as well. WOW, UK mobile for FREE? Thats just too good to be true.

The bad news is the free calls are only available till 15th January 2008, so make the most of it before this free voip calls offer is over.

RelianceiCall works via their softphone, which you can download. We still do not know SIP settings for Reliance iCall. They are not published anywhere and a ping to sip.relianceicall.com doesnt not give any response.

We strongly suggest you give them a try. Never miss a Free VOIP service and especially from Reliance :-). If you are using Reliance India Call, then Reliance icall can be good alternative.

Joiphone offers unlimited india and pakistan calls

Do you live in USA? Don't mind paying a bit for making calls to your loved ones back home? Then this is the deal for you. This unlimited calls offer won't last long. Get in and Grab it.

We always make an effort to find Free VOIP calls to India or pakistan. However, its not easy to find such offers all the time. At the same time, we received massive comments from people primarily in USA that they are ready to PAY a right price for the right product.

I think this offer from JoiPhone is a killer offer. If you are not aware of Joiphone, then let us give you a background of this VOIP/Broadband company founded back in 1999. By 2005, they were one of the largest broaband providers in USA. When sunrocket went bust, we posted a quick alternative solution to Sunrocket. Joiphone was one of the primary alternative to Sunrocket. Why? Simplicity and straight forward approach to VOIP Calls.

If you compare, Joiphone with other providers like Vonage, Verizon etc. No one is offering unlimited calls to India/Pakistan. You buy a service worth $10 per month and use that service to make calls to India. At end of the day, you pay much more than $50 per month since all those calls to India are charged at 8-12 cents per minute.

With Joiphone, you can make unlimited calls to India and Pakistan. That's not all, you can make calls to about 70 countries. YES, you heard it right. No cap on how many minutes you can talk. Talk as much as you want. Just pick up the phone dial your friends in UK, next minute talk to your GF in India :-) Burn the phone line as much as you can without worrying about per minute charges.

With Joiphone, you can make unlimited calls to :
Albania*, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil Country Wide, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, El Salvador (CTE), Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico*, Puerto Rico, Russia*, South Korea, Spain, Thailand Cellular, United Kingdom, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe and many more.

On top of this Joiphone offers some great features for FREE:

1) Keep Your Existing Phone Number
2) 911 Emergency Service
3) Call Forwarding
4) 411 Directory Assistance
5) Voicemail via Phone/Web
6) Hunt Me/Follow me
7) Block Anonymous Calls
8) CID on Call Waiting
9) Call Blasting- Simultaneous Call
10) Call Conferencing
11) 30 Day money back Gurantee
12) No Contract, Cancel Anytime you want


and many more! This features makes joiphone offers almost business level given away to Retail customers.

IF you don't want to take $39.95 offer, you can subscribe for lower packages which starts from as low as $8.95 per month. That's ridiculously low prices for making unlimited calls.


Honestly, we feel this is the best deal we have seen in many years. What JoiPhone is offering can't be replaced by any exisiting calling card or VOIP service, atleast at this stage.

So if you are worried about overpaying while making calls to your loved ones, why not switch to JoiPhone?

Signup for $39.95 per month. This offer has expired.

VOIXIO offers free worldwide calls

Someone asked me if the Ad-based free calling model work any good for VOIP providers? I would well it seems it does. We found a great new provider who is offering free international calls to anywhere in the world in lieu of advertisements.

First up, Thanks to aditya Sood (Ontario, Canada) for sending over the news. The new VOIP provider is Voixio.

Voixio offers a flash based interface with panels seperated with functionality. One panel is dedicated to advertisements and one panel is dedicated for Making calls. They also offer Video call facility whereby you can make calls using your webcam for video feed.

In plain english, Voixio offers free international calls anywhere in the world in leiu of advertisements. The moment you hit the call button, an advertisement starts running the Advertisement panel. Once the ad is over, the call is placed to the other party.

Lets see how you ca use Voixio to make free calls.

1) when you go to Voixio, a screen will pop-up to enter your username/password, is where you log in by inputting youremail address and password and clicking the LOGIN button and also given an option to register.

2) Voixio will detect the webcams and microphones that are available on your computer and these will bedisplayed when you click the “Camera & Mic” button located under the main video window and to theright of the volume slider bar.

3) You can make calls to Standard domestic and international, landline and mobile telephone numbers or other Voixio users or any SIP address.

4) Of course you can choose to receive calls on Voixio from any other users or SIP address. When you receive a call (either audio or video) the keyboard area is replaced by answer or ignorebuttons for you to select.

5) You can free conference calls between voixio users. You can add callers to an existing conversation (or conference) by making a call to an additional user,thus inviting him/her to the conference.

At this stage, its not very clear about the length of the call. When we tried, our call wasn't placed properly. The call got cut immediately after ringing for about 30 seconds. Although, when we tried USA it worked fine for about 5 minutes. We cut the call ourselves.

This should work just fine for countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

So if advertising dont bother you much, free calls are at your doostep with Voixio. Give them a try and let us know how it went.

MediaRing offers FREE calls from 20Dec-Jan 6

Mediaring- A leading VOIP company has unveiled a promotion to boost their VOIP softphone download/sale by launching this innovative scheme. This scheme is very similar to what Jajah offering this christmas .

According to Mediaring,

1. Promotion starts on Dec 20, 2006 GMT 00:00 and will end on Jan 6, 2007 GMT 23:59
2. Promotion is applicable to new MediaRing Talk users only; Sign-up for MediaRing Talk is required.
3. No purchase necessary.
4. Unlimited Free calls are applicable to calls made to: Fixed & Mobile: US, Canada, China, Singapore
   Fixed: United Kingdom
5. To make sure that everyone has an opportunity to benefit from this promotion, each call is limited to 10 minutes. However, there are no restrictions on calling the same destination multiple times.

One interesting fact they put under T&C:

During the promotion period, MediaRing will make reasonable efforts to complete calls but cannot guarantee that all calls will be connected.

LOL...who can give a guarantee when millions are trying to call on a FREE line.

Give it a Try here

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VOIP hack-free calls to more than 40 countries

In my recent articles, i have been constantly updating readers with the new VOIP service providers offering FREE calls to various destinations around the world.

I will definately consolidate the list to make it a quick read.

Now lets look at the new VOIP provider who assured to connect your call FREE to more than 40 countries.

Free Call Planet offers a FREE call (from US Landline, means local call charged) to about 40 odd destinations such as china, UK, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, USA, Australia etc. For full country list, Check their website.

If you are in USA and want to Pay for the local calling charge...then this is how you do it.

1. Dial one of the numbers :1712-429-8888 or 1712-338-8288 or 1641-297-8888
2. When the gateway answers, enter your International destination phone number using 011 for international calls and 1 + Area Code for calls to the US, Canada or Guam.

e.g to call UK landline you will dial: 011442526451212 (011 is access code, 44 country code, 252 area code and then landline number).

011 is common for all numbers its their access code must be prefixed for all numbers.

3. Wait a few moments for your call to ring through and then enjoy your free call.

(Mobile users: DO NOT HIT SEND or the green call button to avoid mobile charges. Also do not pull your phone number from your phone’s address book as it will automatically dial your call over the mobile carrier’s network instead.)

Now you must be blaming me that i was a fool to mention thats it a FREE call, when its only for US residence and additionally they will be charged a local calling charge. You are WRONG.

I discovered a HACK for this. Read this hack very carefully.

Even if you are not in USA, You can still make calls using this service.

1. Read my article on making calls with VOIPcheap
2. Download Voipcheap
3. Install & register the app. (Read the article for registering from VOIPcheap available countries hack)
4. Now you can make calls to USA free of cost.
5. Just dial 1712-429-8888 or 1712-338-8288 or 1641-297-8888
6. You will be connected to Free call planet gateway.
7. Now follow instructions for US callers (see above)
8. You can make calls successfully.

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