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PC to phone calls
are easy to set up, easy to use and best of all,
cheap. You can save up to 90%
on long distance calls.
All you need to make a internet phone call is a computer
with a sound card (full duplex), a microphone, speakers, a
56K modem and an internet connection. It is a good idea to
invest in a sturdy headset as headsets will help eliminate
external noise making your call a lot clearer.
If you plan to make free internet phone calls on a
regular basis, you will want to get on a cable modem
connection or high speed DSL. Again
this will greatly improve voice quality. Using internet is
ideal for calling friends and family and as technology
improves, it will become commonly used for business calls as
well.
IMPORTANT: to achieve a good quality, you need a good pair
of headset and especially a good sound card (you a
buy a good one at about 50$). Without a good sound board,
the quality of the call will be anyway very good from the pc
side, but not-so-outstanding from the phone side. With a
good sound board (and headset) will be excellent from both
sides.
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Go2call |
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Great
Pc-to-phone company. You can use your PC
to make calls to more than 200
countries around the world.
The rates are
generally very low (look at the chart), and
the quality is excellent: it can almost match
a good phone-to-phone regular call.
The site is
only in english, and they accept only USD (US Dollars), but
this company is (with Callserve) my first choice.
With a DSL
connection, the quality of the sound is even better than a
regular phone (provided you have a good headset, of course).
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I connect here |
One of the leading companies
in the Pc-to-phone industry. They have great prices especially
for calls to USA: only 0.03$ per minute, Their rates are not very aggressive for
European destinations (especially for the countries of
European Union), but there are interesting prices for some
countries of Asia and South America, so give them a look (chart).
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Pccall |
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Quite similar to Go2Call and Callserve, but
their prices are generally higher. This company is not my
favourite, but is still quite good.
Their rates are
not impossibile.
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