Make a phone call on your computer using VoIP.
VoIP, or voice over Internet protocol, is a technology that allows you to transmit voice communications over the Internet. Making calls with VoIP technology is an effective, low-cost alternative to making traditional telephone calls or calls over a cellular network. Several commercial services allow you to make VoIP calls from your computer over a wireless Internet connection.
Instructions
1. Create a Skype account and download and install the software found on Skype's website. Skype sells calling credit in $10 increments and has both domestic and international rates. Calls to other Skype users are free. To make a call from your computer, attach the headset and microphone to your computer. Open the main Skype window and click on the keypad icon at the bottom of the window. A new window will open with a Skype dial pad; input the telephone number you are calling, including the area code. Click on the green circular telephone icon in the bottom right corner of the dialpad and wait for your call to connect.
2. Purchase a magicJack device and plug it into a USB port on your computer. MagicJack allows you to make low-cost calls over the Internet by connecting a land-line telephone to the magicJack with a standard telephone wire. The magicJack service offers unlimited calling to the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and discounted international calling rates to other countries. The first time you connect the magicJack to your computer, a window will pop up and ask you to register for the service. MagicJack will assign you a local telephone number in the area code of your choice. You can then make and receive telephone calls as normal on the telephone connected to the magicJack. You must leave your computer on and connected to the Internet to make and receive calls, however.
3. Download and install the iCall application onto your computer. iCall offers monthly service plans with unlimited calling to U.S. and Canada numbers, prepaid bundles of minutes and low-cost international rates to other countries. Free calls are limited to five minutes and disconnect automatically after the time limit is reached. Once the iCall application is installed, click on the iCall desktop icon to open the dial pad. Attach a headset and microphone to your computer and make calls using the dial pad.
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