SIPphone’s Web-based VoIP service, Gizmo Project, is now offering free calls to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world.
Through the Gizmo Project’s “All Calls Free” program, registered users can call other registered users in China, the United States, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Thailand, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Canada, and other countries for free. Most European and Asian countries are also included (a full list of countries may be found at
www.gizmoproject.com/allcallsfree). Calls to countries not on the list, or to users who are not registered with Gizmo Project, will be subject to the service’s low rates.
“The All Calls Free program allows Gizmo Project users to call more than 2 billion landline or mobile phones around the world at no cost to them,” said Jason Droege, president of SIPphone, in a
press release. “There are no hidden fees or catches and we hope to extend the program to more countries in the near future. This is a great reason for people to get their family and friends to make all their calls using Gizmo Project.”
Absent from the press release is any mention of time limits on calls. Apparently, not only are the calls free, but users can talk for as long as they want.
Recently, the Web-based VoIP service Jajah also started offering free international calls. Although it didn’t put an exact time limit on call duration, it did ask that users within its community to adhere to a “fair use” policy, which simply asks that they keep their calls within a “reasonable amount of minutes.” This is mainly to help keep call data moving freely on the network for all users.
Like other Web-based services, there is no fee to sign-up for Gizmo Project. However, it offers free features not available through other softphones, including free voicemail, free conference calling, complete call history, and built-in IM capabilities.
For more information, visit
http://gizmoproject.com.
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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.
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