How to make free phone calls from your computer to your phone

Modern technologies provide many previously unavailable features. Calling for free from your computer to your phone is now as easy as using a traditional phone. There are many communication services, so consider this article the most popular ones, and also pay attention to the pros and cons of this method of communication.

We call from the computer: what is needed for this

If you are going to call from the computer, then check how the microphone and the sound reproducing device work. If there are any problems, then either you do not hear the interlocutor, or he will hear you. Of course, you need an Internet connection. And the higher the connection speed, the better. If the speed leaves much to be desired, there will always be interference and suspense in the conversation.

Services that provide the service free of charge to call from a computer are usually built according to one principle - you register on the site and get the opportunity to make calls for free, but with time restrictions. The duration of a free call depends on the distance of the region with the person you want to contact.

You can call both mobile and landline numbers. There is no difference which subscriber of which cellular network is the person you want to call. You need to contact the MTS number or call for free on MegaFon - from the computer the call will be free in both cases.

Often you get a certain limit of free minutes - for example, 100 minutes a month, or 3 minutes a day. The second option - when registering a user, an account is opened on which there is already a modest amount for making calls - 10 rubles or 1 dollar. By the same principle as with the minutes, a small amount of money (5 rubles once a month) can enter your account at least once in a certain period of time. It is believed that you officially pay for the call with money from the account, but in fact it turns out to be free to call from the computer.

Why do these services survive? Free minutes in a limited number is a way to attract users who will pay for more minutes - as a rule, it turns out to be much cheaper than long-distance calls over a regular telephone line.

Users who often use such services to call for free through a computer are recommended to use Google Chrome or Firefox browsers - they are considered to be the fastest among the counterparts.

Why not Skype or Viber?

Most often for communication on the Internet and video calls, we use programs and applications that usually do not require additional money, but you need to have the same device on your device. Skype and Viber are some of the most popular applications for communication. If you can call from your computer to your computer via Skype, can you call from your computer to the phone? Free will only work under the following conditions:

• If the person you are calling has a smartphone with Skype installed, and not an ordinary push-button phone;
• If a person is currently online from the smartphone.

For those who want to call from Skype to landline numbers or to mobile phones without an installed application, Skype provides a paid service. The rate depends on which country you are going to call. For example, the minute of the call to the United States costs 2.3 cents, to India - 1.5 cents, to France - 8 cents for mobile phones and 2.3 cents for urban.

A similar situation with the "Weber". The service of calls to mobile and city numbers is called Viber Out. The cost of a minute of a call is comparable to the tariffs for Skype. Calls to city numbers always go cheaper than mobile calls. In order to use these services, you will need to replenish the balance of your Skype or VibER account in advance.

Online Calls Service

In order to call from this site, you will need to complete the registration process. Registration is simple and fast, you can even use your account "VKontakte". After registration, go to the main page and dial the required number.

This service also has an application for a smartphone, available for installation on both the "Android" and the iPhone. Downloading it, you can both call from your computer to your mobile phone for free, and from your mobile phone, provided you have Wi-Fi. But the site is quite strict time limit - one free call per day lasting only one minute.

Zadarma.com

The project "Zadarma.kom" also gives the opportunity to call free of charge from the computer to the phone after registration on the site. In addition, this service provides a "virtual number" service - you can choose a number similar to a fixed number in Russia or even a number from another country, and then take calls on it. By this number you will be able to reach not only the computer: a call forwarding service is available to the phone.

User comments on the project "Zadarma" diverge. Some note cheapness and convenience, others - weak technical support, poor communication and the complexity of technical settings. But if you are going to use the service exclusively for free calls, then the only thing that makes you worry is the possible interruptions in communication.

After registration, you get to your account free 30 minutes of calls to 40 countries. When the minutes are exhausted, you will have to refill the account by at least $ 9.5. After that you will have 400 more free minutes. The money will remain in your account - they can be used either for calls to paid destinations, or after the limited minutes run out.

Call2Friends.com

Foreign analog of the service of free calls. As well as domestic sites, Call2friends allows you to make free calls from your computer, but the creators immediately warn that the quality of communication with a free call can be worse, because for this the cheapest communication channels are used. You can call directly from the browser, without installing any additional applications.

YouMagic.com

Another representative of Internet telephony. After registering on the site, the user receives a Russian phone number with the code of one of the major cities and can make calls from him around the world. You can call a mobile phone from your computer for free with YouMagic, limiting yourself to a limit of 5 free minutes per day. To do this, you will also need to download a special program from the site.

YouMagic also provides a promotional tariff - the opportunity to use the service for 7 days for free: you get a city number and can make outgoing calls to the numbers of the connected region, as well as receive incoming calls from all over the world. However, a limit of 5 minutes per day per call continues to operate. If in a week you do not replenish the balance, all the connected services of the promotion are blocked.

Sipnet.ru

The system of work "Sipnet.ru" is similar to other services. You register on the site and call either immediately from the "Personal Account" in the browser, or download to your computer software - software called Sippoint. "Sipnet" is more designed for business use - with the help of this service it is possible to create your own telephone network for a company with internal short numbers.

Jaxtr.com: for free, but not exactly

Abroad, this service is used to make calls to another country at local communication rates. On the main page of the site page you will not understand this at once - information that calls are still not absolutely free, is contained in the "How it works" section. But Jaxtr.com allows you to encrypt your phone number. This is actively used by the owners of the pages that want to keep in touch with the visitors of the site, but do not want to publish their real phone number on the Internet.

FreeCall: free, but not immediately

Service FreeCall promises you free minutes and calls to different destinations, but only on one condition - on the account must necessarily remain at least 10 euros. Therefore, if you want to call a mobile phone from your computer for free at the initial total lack of funds, this site is useless for you.