FREE DID NUMBERS PROVIDER'S LIST

VOIP has gone mainstream and everybody today needs their very own VOIP Phone. However, VOIP is not just limited to owning a home phone service. With people moving all over the world, businesses catering to entire world its important that people can port numbers for other countries on their VOIP Phone and be able to receive calls.

A person based in Singapore has clients in USA and UK and he doesnt want his client to call a Singapore number to reach him. How about a USA and UK number for them to make a local call? Sounds great, this is where DID (Direct Inward Dialing Number) comes into play.

Today we put together the world's most comprehensive DID number provider's list. If you know a DID provider not listed here please let us know.

1)FreeDigits/TalkDigits/CallDigits/ClickDigits: All managed by SIP Number and all DID services are interconnected. Offers USA numbers for FREE.

2) IPKALL: Ipkall offers free usa incoming DID number. Washington State numbers of 206, 253, 360, 425)

3)GrandCentral: Get free USA number from any state. You can of course forward this number to upto 6 numbers in USA or Canada.

4)IPComms: IPComms gives free US DID number from over 5000 locations in USA. Offers Unlimited Inbound Calling, 2 Incoming ports (VoIP Delivered).

5)Orbtalk: These guys offer any geographic DID number in United Kingdom in any county.

6)Coms: Really one of the best Geographic DID number providers in UK.

7)Messagenet: Offers Free DID numbers in London, Milan, Rome or Turin area codes. Voicemail with an unlimited number of messages.

8) Num2IM: These guys offers a Free France DID number, which can be forwarded to your Google Talk/Yahoo/MSN etc.

9) LocalPhone: LocalPhone offers a cheap international call service and also offers a UK Geographic number which you can forward to your phone.

10) Speex: Offers Free cellular (057) Isreali number. Its a number with an extension so not pure DID. The site is in hebrew, so apologies for that.

11) TelFree: Offers a 087 number in South Africa. National Rates Apply.

Do let us know if you are aware of a DID provider and its not listed here, so we can add it to the list. I hope this Free DID number provider list will be helpful for everyone. Don't waste your money on things which you can get for FREE, especially when it comes to FREE VOIP:-)

FREE CALLS AND SMS WORLDWIDE !!!

This offer is only available for new sign ups. So, carefully follow the
steps and enter the voucher code at the time of signing up.

1. Signup for the Rebtel account using this link(else you will not get additional minutes)
2. Click on TRY NOW button
3. Fill in the new voucher code "talktomom11" (without quotes) (See Screenshot)
   
   
4. Fill in the other details (Use a new email id always) and Click Join
5. That's It. Make free calls; Register using all the available numbers and enjoy!
   

Points to Note:
The code has to be entered at the time of registering (sign up) and NOT after sign up. When you first become a member there is a link below the signup box that says "Got a voucher code?" and that's where new users should put in the voucher code.You will not get free 60 minutes if you enter the code after you have signed up, it works only at the time of signing up.

FREE CALLS WITHIN CANADA AND USA !!!

Access Number based free calling services are back in Business. The good old AllFreeCalls.net and Yak4Ever closed down due to issues with local Telecom providers, but it seems there are more VOIP companies exploring this option to make some money off this route.

ZeroCents a canadian free long distance provider offering free calls within Canada only. I am not a canadian but it seems that calling within Canadian provinces is like a long distance call, so you will be charged lot more than calling within your local area. e.g: I am in toronto and I want to call Vancouver, I would be charged more than a local toronto call.

Now ZeroCents promises to reduce this "extra" cost by routing your call through their VOIP network. How do they make money? By running a 5 secs audio advertisement at the start of your call. Unfortunately, their website has no information basides the list of access number and cities you can call via their VOIP network.

With these service mushrooming in the VOIP Market, consumers will have more choice but we see lack of innovation and these service will fade away as more competition comes up. AllFreeCalls.net and Yak4ever were really one of the best services when it comes to access number based Free international calls. You could call 40 countries + with their services, but calling within Canada with access number probably wouldn't make me jump with joy.

Maybe fellow Canadians can enlighten me, if they see any value in this Free Long Distance Calling Service for Canada. I strongly suggest a better service called ViaTalk Free, a Phone to Phone service which lets you make free calls to USA and Canada from USA.

FREE and Cheap Calls To India

Lately many Betamax services are reducing the calling rates to countries such as India and Pakistan. It seems slowly we can see that cheap international calls to India and Pakistan is now a possibility.

I was talking to one of Asia's largest Telecom Carrier's CEO a few weeks back and he told me offering India for 3.99 cents or even lower could be possible and it would still be a profitable venture for them. Considering tremendous growth in VOIP in India and with mainstream telecom companies like MTNL and BSNL entering the market, its just a matter of time that VOIP will be more mainstream communication replacing PSTN lines. There will be Vonage, Sunrocket, PhonePower and Lingo like companies in India which would provide Digital Phone Lines.

Now till that becomes a reality, Betamax has again given away India at cheapest international call rate of mere 2.3 USD cents (Landline & Mobile). This is cheaper than what Intervoip offers at the moment roughly 3.1-3.9 cents. Thanks to Ramesh Kumar (Regular contributor and reader from Bangkok) for sending in this update.

SMSDiscount is a betamax product so you can either use their softphone or Phone to Phone service or use your own SIP Phone or VOIP Adapter.

For using SIP Phone with SMS Discount you can use the following settings:

SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.smsdiscount.com
Proxy server : sip.smsdiscount.com
Outbound proxy server : leave empty
Account name : your smsdiscount username
Password : your smsdiscount password
Display name/number : your smsdiscount username or voipnumber
Stunserver (option) : stun.smsdiscount.com

We have noticed that Betamax often charges more while making calls via SIP. Please keep that in mind.

We suggest make the most of this offer so you save some huge bucks on making cheapest international calls to India.