Calling the U.S. cheaply or for free

Hallo,

Do anyone know the cheapest way that is Calling for free to US ??

I know Nonoh.net gives 300 mn free for a week but its doesnt give 300 mins.

Do you one have a method to do so like Voip etc.

"the cheapest way that is Calling for free"? You mean cheaper than free?
Free is the best I can offer: Peterzahlt (among others)

justvoip.com free to fixed lines !!!

Not really. Calls are limited to 60 seconds unless you register, and if you do that you have to deposit at least €10 in order to make free calls for a maximum of 120 days. Thereafter you start to use your deposit to pay for calls. Cheap, yes. Free, no.

Ever tried "lowratevoip"? Free calls to US both landline and mobile.

Actually the same deal as voipcheap (and the majority of the other Betamax brands as listed at backsla.sh/betamax). Pay your 10 Euros (+ MwSt, so actually 11,90 Euros) for a number of "freedays", actually meaning up to ~300 minutes/7-day period of 0c/min calls to various destinations, after which it's 1c/min (+MwSt) for those destinations and whatever the usual rates are for the destinations that aren't included in the "freedays" deal. As YL6 says, very cheap, but not free.

Not really. Calls are limited to 60 seconds unless you register, and if you do that you have to deposit at least €10 in order to make free calls for a maximum of 120 days. Thereafter you start to use your deposit to pay for calls. Cheap, yes. Free, no.
Didn't I say that once before? - ah yes- the post before yours...

Try Rebtel...

It costs only a few cents to call the US and anywhere else in the world. You can register a land line or a cell phone. After you register your phone you program the numbers you want to dial into your online account and then it provides you with a local number to dial.

I have used this service for about a year now and works without a hitch.

www.rebtel.com

Just checked the rebtel price for calling the US and it is 1.8 cents per min.

If you load up a Skype account, you pay just under 2c a minute, but Peter zahlt is of course cheaper, as it's free.

Heres a good site

http://www.tariftip.de/

If you click "Nur mit tarifansage" it will only give you the prefixes where a voice tells you how much your paying

USA 1.06 cents per min at the moment

Apart from being inconvenient (need a PC and headphones) and often poor quality, Skype is one of the more expensive cheap options - It's not just 2cents a minute, but a 4.5 cent connection charge in addition, notwithstanding the loss of interest on your money they hold on account. If you call someone in the USA and they aren't home (but an answering machine answers so you hang up) the Skype call costs you 6.5 cents - more than 6 times the cost of the cheapest call-by-call alternative (which needs no equipment, no set up and no deposit)

PLUS the cost of a local call... (so about double your price)
Rebtel is really intended to make cheaper international calls from mobiles, but the Betamax stable (Voipstunt, lowratevoip, etc) offer this now anyway, so are cheaper.

http://www.billiger-telefonieren.de/

Go to that site any time and it will give you the cheapest rate for calling the US. Normally you can get about 1ct/min

Also, if you have regular phoen service w/ the Deutsche TElekom, they now offer unlimited calling to West Europe and N. America for about 4 bucks a month. I think its called Country Flat or s.th

I have looked periodically at various IP programs, but I had specific needs.

1. needed to be able to port my existing number over. (very few do this)
Someone calling my US number, it rings to me anywhere in the world.

2) Voicemail access over the web with email alerts

3) Low cost and monthly service. (some have zero)

4) ability to use many devices like wireless PDA and use hardware I already had (IE: Computer, router etc)

5) Still be able to connect through analog phones

6) ability to forward Calls to my mobile

Everyone's needs are different of course.

After seeing sunrocket went bankrupt and the poor quality with Vonage, I have been using Call Centric.
http://www.callcentric.com/?aid=35113

Cost me about $20 to port my existing number over and recurring costs are low, I can change the plan anytime.
I am only really using it to receive calls to voicemail and keep my old Home US number.

I still use Skype, MSN and other chat programs. (not true SIP or Voip) Used Iconnecthere in the past, but I didn't want to pay a setup fee and quality varied a lot.
One consideration is that because these all use internet the quality varies on your connection and the providers.
I have more than one, to ensure I can make calls when I want to.

Hi,

I'll be studying in Berlin for five months. I have a cell phone here at home and to use it in Germany it will cost me 99 cents a minute. I want to be able to talk to my family every day so thats kind of a lot.

I am wondering if anyone knows of an alternative? I won't be in Germany for long and my language skills are pretty bad so I don't want to just get cell phone with a German company. Its pretty much the same deal with calling cards.

So, how can I talk to my family on a regular basis cheaply while in Germany?

Thanks, any input appreciated!

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If you have an access to a computer and your parents at the other end too, the cheapest is Skype, it's free! Go to google to find their website and load it down. It takes a few minutes and you can talk as much and as long as you like.

Hey thanks for the idea, I'll tell my friends to download skype

but alas, my parents are old and do well with such ultramodern technology

and my sister only has access to her computer at work.

any other suggestions?

Yes, use the search function!

You still can download Skype on your computer and use their regular #, but then you have to pay a little on your side.Still a lot cheaper than regular calls.Check it out on their web site. Good luck! For being old, I'm eighty and still learning

This works for landlines; not sure about cell phones:
Predial Numbers to Call US
Sometimes you have to go down the list to get one that works, though, but I've never had any problems getting at least one to work.
Dial the predial number, then 001 then the area code, etc.

Not from a cellphone...

My package with Telekom is 44€ per month flatrate with DSL2000. No extra charge for calls to Germany, European and North America.

Not free when you call from your mobile.

@emy
One solution is to sign up for a VoIP service like VoipCheap and use their call through number (03031190303 for Berlin). So you pay the cost of a call to a fixed number in Germany plus 1ct/minute maximum extra. But make sure the callthrough number works with your mobile provider.