Many cell phone devices are now equipped with wireless Internet support. The phone connects to your home or office wireless router and lets you make free VoIP calls. Some of the VoIP applications that can be installed on cell phones are Telfree, Fring and Skype. Telfree and Fring basically let you access any VoIP service on which you may already have an account, for instance Google Talk or Live Messenger, to call your existing contacts for free. Skype is a standalone VoIP service through which you can make free calls to other Skype contacts. Calls made through any of these VoIP services to landline or cellular numbers will first require you to purchase credit from the company website.
Instructions
1. Sign up for a Telfree account. Telfree lets you make low-cost calls to cell phones and landlines in any location in the world (see Resources). However, an added advantage is that if the person you want to call has also signed up for a Telfree account, you can make a free call to him when the person logs in to his Telfree account and is connected to the Internet.
To call cell phones and landlines, log in to your Telfree account after signing up. Then click "Purchase Telfree credit." Enter the phone number you want to dial in the "Call" field after you've purchased Telfree credit. The call will then be connected.
2. Sign up for Fring, if you already have an account on a VoIP service like Skype, Google Talk, Live Messenger or ICQ. Download the Fring application on your cell phone (see Resources). Once you install it on the phone, you can register for a username and password. Then add a VoIP account of your choice to your Fring account. For instance, if you have an existing Skype account, select "Skype" from the list on Fring, and enter your Skype username and password. Fring will then show your Skype contacts who are available online. Next to each contact's name, you will find the option "Call." Select this option to talk to the contact.
3. Download Skype. Install it on your cell phone (see Resources). Sign up by entering a username and password. If you want to make calls to cell phones and landlines, select the option "Purchase Skype Credit" from the menu of the application, and give your credit card details. If you want to make free Skype-to-Skype calls, then simply add the Skype contacts (your friends who've registered on Skype) to your chat list. When they appear online from their computer, you will see the option "Call." Click this option, and you will be connected when the other party receives the call.
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