| Long
Distance Calling Solutions
Need
ideas in accessing CSConversations
at reasonable long distance rates? The list below provides you
with possible solutions:
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FREE
CELL (MOBILE) PHONE MINUTES - Many cellular phone
plans provide for free long distance usage on weekends. Check
with your cellular phone service provider. If you are calling
in using your cellular phone, you may wish to use a headset
so that you don't have to hold the phone up to your ear for
the duration of the service.
- LONG
DISTANCE CALLING CARDS - try the 99¢ Stores for
a $0.01 per minute calling card. [click
here for their web site]
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LINGO - If you live in the USA and have a broadband internet
connection, this is the service for you! Lingo is
a "VOIP" (voice over internet protocol click
here for article from FCC) technology. For a flat $21.95/month
charge, you are able to make all of your local calls, Unlimited
calling to USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, and 21 countries including
Western Europe plus Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and
South Korea AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE AND WITH NO MINUTE RESTRICTIONS!
The Lingo box connects to your broadband modem via a router
and you use your regular phones. Automatically comes with
tons of features like voice mail, call forwarding, call waiting,
caller ID, conference calling. (This is the service I use.)
If you sign up for this service, please mention you
were referred by Mark Mohlenbrock, eMail address mark@csdirectory.com
and YOU and I (CSDirectory.com) will both receive a $25
credit on our bills after you've been signed up for
90 days. Its an easy way to contribute to this project! Plus,
currently, the first month is free.
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For other
VOIP options, see
article with links from National Public Radio
(USA). Click
here for article from FCC
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 SKYPE
- Skype is a FANTASTIC "peer to peer" telephony
service for the internet and is FREE (when you talk computer
to computer). This allows you to "Skype" (call)
another Skype user and talk to them through your computer
(PC and Mac). (I use this service too.) Skype works best with
a headset if you are using a PC - and there are many to choose
from (Click
here for a good place to buy a headset below list price).
You can also "SkypeOut" which means
you can call a regular phone number from your computer using
Skype for a few cents per minute. The new Skype Unlimited
allows you unlimited calls to phones in the USA and Canada
for $29.95/year www.skype.com
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CHECK
WITH YOUR PHONE CARRIER FOR SPECIAL PACKAGES - You
may wish to check with your home telephone carrier to see
if they have special plans for calling long distance. (Recently
I had a plan through my then carrier, Quest, which allowed
me to call anywhere in the USA for 5 cents a minute and capped
the charge at $20 per month. www.qwest.com)
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