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When Voip providers came into the market, they offered services and features that the regular phone companies wouldn’t offer or will offer for an additional fee. One such service was free international calling plans that come bundled with some voip plans.

Some voip providers like Vonage offer free unlimited calls to a few countries outside of US and Canada with their regular unlimited calling plans. Some providers offer a slightly higher priced plans which would include unlimited calling in the US, Canada plus other countries. Thess plans generally have a lot more free calling countries, cost around $5 to $10 extra. Which still would mean great savings if you have families in those free calling countries and you call frequently.

Some of the International Calling Plans offered by Voip companies are listed here.

Packet8 Freedom Unlimited Global plan $29.99/month

In addition to the regular free countries US/Canada, the following countries are free with the plan.
Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Moscow-Central, Moscow-Suburb, St. Petersburg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.
Asia: Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Latin America: Chile, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara.
Australia
Middle East: Israel.
US territories: Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam

Unlimited Lingo Plan $21.95/Month

Lingo does not have a separate plan for international calling. But its unlimited calling plan does include 22 European countries as free calling countries. This is of course in addition to free Unlimited calling to US, Canada, Puerto Rico

Western Europe Countries: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Luxembourg, Vatican City, Norway, Portugal, and Spain

Australia, New Zealand

Singapore, and South Korea.

Vonage Unlimited Plan $24.99

Vonage includes the follwoing countries in its free calling list with its regular unlimited calling plan.

Italy, France, Spain, UK, and Ireland

Net2Phone Unlimited World Plan $39.99

Net2Phone probably has the biggest list of free countries in its World Plan. Total number of free countries in the plan is 60, though the price is also the highest compared to other plans.

Free Countries in the World Plan:

Mexico-Guadalajara, Mexico-Mexico City, Mexico-Monterrey, Mexico-Puebla,Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Chile,

United Kingdom, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, China, China-Mobile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Turkey, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guam, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,  Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia-Moscow, Russia-St. Petersburg, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea-Seoul, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

Malaysia, Malaysia-Mobile,Hong Kong, Singapore, Singapore-Mobile,Hong Kong-Mobile,Taiwan, Thailand, Thailand-Mobile, Australia

U.S. Virgin Islands, Vatican City and Venezuela.

123Spoof.comis offering a new kind of service. Its not April 1st or we wouldn’t have taken it seriously. But its December, so here we are, writing about it.

Caller ID spoofing is the name of the service, aptly named. Did you ever want to make an anonymous call? Or may be just block your number so the person wouldn’t know who is really calling? Now you can do just that with this service.

Or record a call so you could save it or play it back? Imagine you’re a professional playing hooky on the golf course and you want the call to look like it’s coming from the office. Or you’re a business man and you want to re-check your phone orders. Or just a kid who wants to play a prank. Come on. Plus we are the only Caller ID Spoofing service that lets you dial anywhere in the world! Here is a list of features that 123SPOOF offers.

CALLER ID SPOOFING

1. Have any number you want to appear as your Caller ID! Well that wd be a prank call.
2. Have your number come up as “Unavailable!”, this may be useful.

VOICE CHANGER (yes you read it write the first time)

123SPOOF.com, lets you disguise your voice beyond recognition so that you may remain totally anonymous. This feature will also allow you to change your voice to sound like a male, female or just a sound that’s not yours. You also have an option to hear how you will sound before you make the call, so you can make it sound as real and different as possible. You can pre-set different voices for different people in your Phone Book!

Apart from the above interesting features 123Spoof also offers some not so interesting, but more useful features

RECORD A CALL
You have the option to record your calls for later. It also allows you to announce that the call is being recorded.

CALL NOTES
After the end of your call, you can records to yourself.

Try 123Spoof.com and have some fun with its cool features.

Recently voip provider Vonage has quietly added a new tier of voip plan called Vonage Pro. Its a higher priced plan at $34.99/month and packs a few more services to its residential unlimited plan.

The added features are

• Vonage Companion – Its basically a softphone using which you can make and receive calls from your pc.
• Vonage Visual Voicemails – A voicemail transcription service that converts your voice mail to text so you can read the voicemail in your email or on your cell phone. You get 25 free with this plan.
• 25 Directory Assistance calls

For the above three features you pay extra $10 per month. The soft phone feature may be something that road warriors will like. With the softphone, you travel with your phone anywhere you can access internet, from the airport, from your hotel or office. For regular home phone users these features may not add much value, but then Vonage may not be targeting this group with this plan.

Please note with the Vonage Pro plan you get all the features of the Vonage Residential Unlimited plan, like unlimited local and long distance calls in US, Canada & PR, FREE calls to landline phones in Italy, France, Spain, UK and Ireland and 25 calling Free features. Also you get 1 FREE MONTH.

PhonePower is now offering its Yearly PrePiad plan at a promotional rate of $119/Year , plus 1 free cloned line. At $119/year rate the monthly cost comes to about $10 for unlimited US and Canada long distance calling. Plus you get all the 25 features like voicemail, call waiting, caller id, call transfer and more at no additional cost

Read our full PhonePower Review here.

The Skype Internatonal Plans offers excellent cost savings compared to other international calling cards. Plus these Skype plans offer unlimited calls to Landlines and in some cases mobile lines. Plus you get the robust service, good call quality.

All the Plans include unlimited calling in the USA and Canada.

Skype World Plan

Call From: USA

Call To: 40 Countries in Europe and Other

Cost: $12.95/Month

Call Duration: Unlimited, any time of the day

The following 40 countries fall under the Skype World Plan.

The plan is priced at $12.95/month. There is no contract and no connection fee.

• Australia Landlines
• Austria Landlines
• Belgium Landlines
• Canada Landlines & Mobiles
• China Landlines & Mobiles
• Chile Landlines
• Czech Republic Landlines
• Denmark Landlines
• Estonia Landlines
• Finland Landlines
• France Landlines
• Germany Landlines
• Greece Landlines
• Guam Landlines
• Hong Kong Landlines & Mobiles
• Hungary Landlines
• Ireland Landlines
• Israel Landlines
• Italy Landlines
• Japan Landlines
• Korea, Republic of Landlines
• Luxembourg Landlines
• Malaysia Landlines
• Netherlands Landlines
• New Zealand Landlines
• Norway Landlines
• Poland Landlines
• Portugal Landlines
• Puerto Rico Landlines
• Singapore Landlines & Mobiles
• Spain Landlines
• Sweden Landlines
• Switzerland Landlines
• Taiwan Landlines
• United Kingdom Landlines
• USA Landlines & Mobiles

Skype Mexico Plan

Call From: USA

Call To: Cities in Mexico plus USA & Canada

Cost: $5.95/Month

Call Duration: Unlimited, any time of the day

• Mexico City Landlines
• Guadalajara Landlines
• Monterrey Landlines
• Canada Landlines & Mobiles
• United States Landlines & Mobiles

Skype US & Canada Plan

Call From: USA

Call To: Anywhere in USA & Canada landlines and mobile

Cost: $2.95/Month

Call Duration: Unlimited, any time of the day

Skype Advantages- Cost, Quality and No Contarct.
Skype Disadvantage – All paid Skype services are PC-to-Phone calls. So you will need a pc. You can have a skype phone connected to your pc. That will free you from your PC, but your pc will need to on and connected to internet.

Also Read: Unlimited Calling to Europe

PhonePower’s 1 Free Year offer is back for a limited time. With the prepaid 1 year Plan at $199/yr you get one additional year of service for Free.

PhonePower is an up and coming voip home phone service provider with excellent call quality and all the free features that you would expect.

If you are looking for a home phone service provider, do consider PhonePower. Just try it for a month. If you don’t like the service, cancel before the 30 day period. All PhonePower plans come with a 30 day money back gurantee.

Read our full PhonePower Review here.

International Calling Rates including calling rates to India have drastically come down since carriers started using Voip to route calls to India. There are are many voip providers that offer great rates to call
India to its members. These plans are sometimes bundled with a unlimited or limited long distance(in US and Canada) voip calling plans.

Some Voip providers also offer stand alone “Calling Cards” to India at incredibly lower rates. These calling cards are totally independent and you can use them with any phone or cellular or voip carrier of your choice.

We just launched a comparison page that compares various India Calling Card offers as well as India Calling Rates being offered by voip providers with their regular long distance plans.

PhonePower is offering free international calling to the following countries to its new and existing members in the month of December 2008.

• United Kingdom
• Spain
• Ireland
• Israel
• Germany
• Singapore
• France
• Denmark
• Greece
• Italy
• China