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Prepaid Phone Cards or VoIP Phone Calls?

Many still rely on the utilization of Calling Cards or more appropriately called prepaid calling phone cards. These cards can offer significant savings, however, these do come with several caveats (read fees) here below we detail some of the most common fees, believe or not this not a complete list! Connection Fee: At the beginning of each call the...

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Localphone wins 2013 Best Consumer VoIP Award

Earlier Localphone won the Award of Best Consumer VOIP – the award is given by the ITSP (Internet Telephony Services Providers Association) The ITSP was formed in 2004 and is based in London, UK. ITSP represents all UK-based network operators, service and/or VOIP providers that serve business and residential consumers in the UK, European Union and beyond...

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Facebook Messenger jumps on VoIP’s bandwagon

Here’s a treat for us Canucks – the biggest social network of it all Facebook as made available through Facebook Messenger for Android and for iPhone VOIP calling to contacts for free. The App uses the mobile data plan and early usage reports indicate a similar call quality of those seen with Skype or other similar VOIP calling applications. In Canada...

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Cheap Long Distance Calls to India

VoIP technology makes it easier than ever before to make international long distance calls to India. Today we’ll compare the rates of some of our long distance and residential providers against the traditional Canadian telecom providers. Provider Landline Rate Mobile Rate Connection Fee Localphone 1.5 cents 1.5 cents $0 Skype 9.8 cents 9.8...

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New Area Codes in Canada coming in late March

Canada started with area codes in 1947 with only 9, after March 25th, 2013 there will be 29, and it’s expected to grow to 35 over the next few years. According to the CNAC (Canadian Numbering Administrator) people now have the ability to have more than one phone number, be it Smartphone or tablet. On this, we have to factor the growing utilization of...

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Cheap Call to Philippines from Canada

VoIP technology makes it easier than ever before to make international long distance calls to the Philippines. Today we’ll compare the rates of some of our long-distance and residential providers against the traditional Canadian telecom providers. Provider Landline Rate Mobile Rate Connection Fee Localphone 10.4 cents 11.9 – 13.9...