Phoning Using The Computer

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With this free service, you can use a dedicated number to make and receive long-distance calls from your computer—and have incoming calls rerouted to your landline or cell. Sweeet!

Phoning Using The ComputerWASTE NOT | Living Rich by Spending Smart author Gregory Karp says telecom- munications, along with food and insurance, are three of the biggest recurring expenses in every adult’s life, so to achieve “financial fitness” you should avoid waste in these areas first.

In an effort to staunch the telecommunications hemorrhaging that goes on in our house, I signed up for Google Voice (CLICK HERE for our story), a software program that allows those with a Gmail account to make free long-distance calls (through 2011, anyway) all over North America via computer. I’ve used “GV” to make free calls to the U.S. but found the sound quality so hit and miss (I’m told it’s Beta software) that it prompted me to try another free software for calls in Canada. This one has provided me with consistently clear reception—plus some bells and whistles.

What Freephoneline.ca Can Do For You

Freephoneline.ca is a Canadian software program that allows you to make and receive local and long-distance calls to 80 percent of Canadian cities from your computer with an assigned number that recipients learn to recognize (better than GV’s “unknown caller” prompt any day).

When your computer is turned off (or if you choose not to answer), calls to your Freephoneline number can be forwarded to your landline or your cell, where you can either pick them up or have them sent to voicemail and any audio message dropped into your voicemail or email inbox. While you can’t make outgoing Freephoneline calls from your phone (without their adaptor, but that’s another story), the call receiving feature effectively turns your phone into one with two incoming lines. I have a friend who uses his regular number for personal calls and his Freephoneline line for business. —C. Rule

There’s way more to Freephoneline than the few features mentioned here. See everything it can do at www.freephoneline.ca

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  1. Beth Robinson
    Beth Robinson says:

    I’ve been using Magic Jack since October/10 with great success. $20/year, free calls to all of US/Canada. Take my computer with me and call at will. Free voice mail, free 411, Free call forward, Free 911 if you want it. LOVE IT!! You do have to buy the initial plug-in ($20), but that is a one-time cost. You can talk through your computer or a regular ‘phone. They do have a plan for $70 for 5 years, but I’m going year to year at present. The International rates are VERY reasonable!

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