Free International Phone Calls

[immabadspellor_]

I found this awhile ago and used it a few times on the bridge.  It's a gateway that lets you make free international calls to certain countries, provided that you could call Iowa and Minnesota for free.  They tend to get busy on the nights and weekends but its free, so it's worth the price.  Hopefully Futurephone and Jazango will stay free longer than Skype had free calls for.

http://www.futurephone.com/
http://www.jazango.com/

Those pages have the list of countries that these numbers work for, but here's the access numbers anyway:

712-945-1112 (just announces the 218 number right now. but is still on their page)
712-338-7200
218-339-1300
218-339-1990

It seems that ANI is passed through to Canadian numbers but I just called an ANAC in New Zealand (011-64-8-320-1231) and it's coming up with a 1-866 number.  Oh, and you can't call US numbers with them so they don't make good diverters anyway.

[phonehead]

I've tried them all. 

[Godot]

This was listed in Popular Science. It is a really cool service.

[immabadspellor_]

After trying these for awhile, I have to agree that the Jazango one is by far the best.  Never had a busy signal or even a wait for a line on it yet.  Plus, it seems to connect to all the countries it says it does, where I've had problems with some Canadian area codes and some country codes on the Futurephone ones. 

Also, these make a nice divert for toll free numbers that blocks your ANI pretty good.  You dial the Jazango number, then at the prompt dial 011-31-20-3987567 and you get a dialtone.  At the dialtone, dial * followed by the toll free number, like *1-800-444-4444.  The ANAC says your number is 702-403-1000
Nothing like bouncing your call from Cass Lake, Minnesota to the Netherlands back to North America and end up showing a Las Vegas number on someone's ANI. 

[Imnsvale]

After trying these for awhile, I have to agree that the Jazango one is by far the best.  Never had a busy signal or even a wait for a line on it yet.  Plus, it seems to connect to all the countries it says it does, where I've had problems with some Canadian area codes and some country codes on the Futurephone ones. 

Also, these make a nice divert for toll free numbers that blocks your ANI pretty good.  You dial the Jazango number, then at the prompt dial 011-31-20-3987567 and you get a dialtone.  At the dialtone, dial * followed by the toll free number, like *1-800-444-4444.  The ANAC says your number is 702-403-1000
Nothing like bouncing your call from Cass Lake, Minnesota to the Netherlands back to North America and end up showing a Las Vegas number on someone's ANI. 

Is 011-31-20-3987567 another service like Jazengo?

[immabadspellor_]

Is 011-31-20-3987567 another service like Jazengo?

No, it's a FWD (Free World Dialup) Gateway run by xs4all.nl .  It differs from other gates as it gives you a dialtone so you can use all of the FWD features including the * to dial a toll free number with and the FWD conferece rooms, etc.  Most of the gateway numbers in the states have a menu to go through first and block out the features like the * toll free calling. 

There are services similar to Jazengo in the UK.  Some are premium rate numbers, but others are mobile numbers and if you're on the same network, you can use your free mobile to mobile minutes and make free international calls with it.  I'll have to look some of them up and try it with Jazengo.  That would be a great, easy way to make a difficult to trace call to any number anywhere, states included, with a different ANI attached.

[Imnsvale]

Is 011-31-20-3987567 another service like Jazengo?

No, it's a FWD (Free World Dialup) Gateway run by xs4all.nl .  It differs from other gates as it gives you a dialtone so you can use all of the FWD features including the * to dial a toll free number with and the FWD conferece rooms, etc.  Most of the gateway numbers in the states have a menu to go through first and block out the features like the * toll free calling. 

There are services similar to Jazengo in the UK.  Some are premium rate numbers, but others are mobile numbers and if you're on the same network, you can use your free mobile to mobile minutes and make free international calls with it.  I'll have to look some of them up and try it with Jazengo.  That would be a great, easy way to make a difficult to trace call to any number anywhere, states included, with a different ANI attached.

I tried just Jazengo to dial an Australian cell phone, it said it wasn't a valid area. Then I tried Jazengo to the FWD, no dice. I can't get the FWD to go anywhere but the toll-free number you suggested. What am I doing wrong? Does the FWD not allow anything that's not a toll-free call? I tried both the way of dialing internationally from the US and the way of dialing internationally from the Netherlands.

[immabadspellor_]

Is 011-31-20-3987567 another service like Jazengo?

No, it's a FWD (Free World Dialup) Gateway run by xs4all.nl .  It differs from other gates as it gives you a dialtone so you can use all of the FWD features including the * to dial a toll free number with and the FWD conferece rooms, etc.  Most of the gateway numbers in the states have a menu to go through first and block out the features like the * toll free calling. 

There are services similar to Jazengo in the UK.  Some are premium rate numbers, but others are mobile numbers and if you're on the same network, you can use your free mobile to mobile minutes and make free international calls with it.  I'll have to look some of them up and try it with Jazengo.  That would be a great, easy way to make a difficult to trace call to any number anywhere, states included, with a different ANI attached.

I tried just Jazengo to dial an Australian cell phone, it said it wasn't a valid area. Then I tried Jazengo to the FWD, no dice. I can't get the FWD to go anywhere but the toll-free number you suggested. What am I doing wrong? Does the FWD not allow anything that's not a toll-free call? I tried both the way of dialing internationally from the US and the way of dialing internationally from the Netherlands.

Many countries cell phones have free incoming calls.  This is because the person calling them foots the bill, so calling mobile numbers in Australia and the UK (amongst others) costs significantly more than a call to a basic rate landline, thus it is of no suprise that Jazango and Futurephone block out mobile numbers from being dialed. 

I suppose I should have been more explanatory when mentioning FWD (Free World Dialup).  FWD is a VoIP service.  You can only dial FWD VoIP users from it, with the exception of toll free calls using the * method I mentioned previously.  There are gateways set up that allow PTSN users to call a FWD VoIP user.  Most of them are set up so that you can only dial in to FWD numbers but since the gate in the Netherlands just gives you the straight FWD dialtone, you can use any of the FWD features, including the one that lets you access toll free numbers.  You CANNOT use a FWD gate to dial any PTSN number BUT toll free.  It is NOT a service like Jazengo.

[Imnsvale]

Is 011-31-20-3987567 another service like Jazengo?

No, it's a FWD (Free World Dialup) Gateway run by xs4all.nl .  It differs from other gates as it gives you a dialtone so you can use all of the FWD features including the * to dial a toll free number with and the FWD conferece rooms, etc.  Most of the gateway numbers in the states have a menu to go through first and block out the features like the * toll free calling. 

There are services similar to Jazengo in the UK.  Some are premium rate numbers, but others are mobile numbers and if you're on the same network, you can use your free mobile to mobile minutes and make free international calls with it.  I'll have to look some of them up and try it with Jazengo.  That would be a great, easy way to make a difficult to trace call to any number anywhere, states included, with a different ANI attached.

I tried just Jazengo to dial an Australian cell phone, it said it wasn't a valid area. Then I tried Jazengo to the FWD, no dice. I can't get the FWD to go anywhere but the toll-free number you suggested. What am I doing wrong? Does the FWD not allow anything that's not a toll-free call? I tried both the way of dialing internationally from the US and the way of dialing internationally from the Netherlands.

Many countries cell phones have free incoming calls.  This is because the person calling them foots the bill, so calling mobile numbers in Australia and the UK (amongst others) costs significantly more than a call to a basic rate landline, thus it is of no suprise that Jazango and Futurephone block out mobile numbers from being dialed. 

I suppose I should have been more explanatory when mentioning FWD (Free World Dialup).  FWD is a VoIP service.  You can only dial FWD VoIP users from it, with the exception of toll free calls using the * method I mentioned previously.  There are gateways set up that allow PTSN users to call a FWD VoIP user.  Most of them are set up so that you can only dial in to FWD numbers but since the gate in the Netherlands just gives you the straight FWD dialtone, you can use any of the FWD features, including the one that lets you access toll free numbers.  You CANNOT use a FWD gate to dial any PTSN number BUT toll free.  It is NOT a service like Jazengo.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the information. I'm guessing there isn't a free (legal) way to call an Australian cell phone from the US, then?

[PHISH-PHREAK]

Not unless your able to find a toll free number like jazengo.

[phonehead]

Futurephone is G-O-N-E.

[immabadspellor_]

Futurephone is G-O-N-E.

Wow, yes it is.  And they've only had that new 218 number for about a week now My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself..  Jazango still works, but their webpage has gone 404.  I remember reading something on their webpage that said they'd be around until at least 2011 or something like that.  Oh well at least it was the crappier of the two that went away!

[Amok]

Jazango doesn't work with SkypeOut.  I e-mailed the guys and they said that SkypeOut doesn't pass an ANI, and that Jazango blocks calls that don't have an ANI.

[frog]

Jazango doesn't work with SkypeOut.  I e-mailed the guys and they said that SkypeOut doesn't pass an ANI, and that Jazango blocks calls that don't have an ANI.

You had to ask them if SkypeOut passed ANI?

[cyberpunk136]

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