Ether Voip hack for free calls

We had just noted from voipguide about a new service "Ether" which will let you make free calls to many countries including UAE.
The service is run by AT & T.
Ether is actually a paid to talk service, where experts can charge people to talk to them. Like for example, I can setup a account on Ether with the following description.

Listing Name: Financial Expert
Tags: Guidance on investments
Pricing Plan: Free until "*"; $0.01 per minute; Repeat

That means I can help you plan your investments. If you want to contact me, just dial my ether number 1-888-MY-ETHER ext. 02703XXX. Consider you live in Newyork and need some expert help, so you can contact me and I will charge you 0.01 cents per minute. Ether takes 15% commission.

Now this is all what Ether works on. Now the hack to convert this to a totally Free Calling Haven.

Lets see how we do it.

1) Go to Ether and register.
2) Add a phone number. currently Ether offers about 20 odd countries. India and UAE is accepted which is extremely surprising.
3) While you add a number, rememeber to chose the option,
Allow customers to start the call for free. The rate below will begin when you press *.
Now this is the hack. Remember this.
4) Now Ether will assign you a extension number like 1-888-MY-ETHER ext. 02703XXX.
5) If someone wants to talk to you, give them this number, 1-888-MY-ETHER (1-888-69-38437) and ask them to enter your extension at the prompt.
6) your call will be connected but remember dont press *, coz that will trigger the billing :-)

Talk as much as you want, its all FREE. The only worry is it's a USA number, however they are various ways to call USA number for Free. You can use Earthcaller, icall or Truphone to make calls to that Ether number.

Free phone calls to whole world including India

Go to this website and register for pin to call anywhere in the world for free. You can call only from the number you registered.
You can call both cell phones or landlines free for 10 minutes. Voice quality is also nice.

You can make calls from the following countries

USA, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong Hungary India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Pennytel offer unlimited Phone calls to India

Pennytel is offering unlimited calls (no limit per call) to India using their service.

Under the "Talk till you drop" promotion, Pennytel is offering 8 cents untimed (You can talk as much as you want, no limit on call time) destinations to over 70 destinations, which does not include India. Pennytel is also offering the rest of destionations at 38.88c per call (Its AUD so its around 36.5 USD cents per call, which is great). This rate applies to countries such as India.

If you talk for more than 10 minutes, you already beat Betamax rates.

Lets see why this is cheapest call to india.

Consider you talking for over 30 minutes to India. With Betamax, considering rates of 3 cents per minute, you have to pay 30 x 3 = 0.90 USD. With Pennytel, you would only be spending 36.5 cents, thats almost a saving of over 0.535 dollar per call.

The more you talk, more your benefit since you just have to pay 36.5 cents once the call starts.

On top of all this, they are offering

1. 50 Free SMS Monthly!
2. Free Traditional Phone Number!
3. No commitment, contract or minimum terms
4. No flagfall or connection fees
5. Free PennyTel to PennyTel Calls
6. Per second billing - for destinations that are not untimed

Remember, you can configure Pennytel on your SIP softphone or you can use it using Mobile VOIP or you can download their softphone.

Pennytel sip details are

Phone Number 888xxxxxxx
Display Name 888xxxxxxx
SIP Domain sip.pennytel.com
Sip Server sip.pennytel.com
Username 888xxxxxxx
password --- what they emailed you

Sip settings

SIP Listen Port 5060
Proxy Setting Proxy IP: sip.pennytel.com
Proxy Port: 5060
Registrar Setting Registrar IP: sip.pennytel.com
Registrar Port: 5060
Re-Registration Time Interval 300

Happy talking to your friends and family.

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