Comments on: AllFreeCalls (un)Surprisingly Successful

By: Mediator Tech » ADR Resources Roundup, February 2007

Mediator Tech » ADR Resources Roundup, February 2007 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:24:54 +0000

[...] AllFreeCalls Unsurprisingly Successful: Brief profile of a service using a legislative loophole to help callers make free phone calls. [...]

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:25:03 +0000

we should be back in 5 hours

By: niraj

niraj — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:52:55 +0000

hey !! thats not working please fix that no. 712-858-8094 …….not working aha not working!!! ….plese let me know!! i cant place any call it says no is changed and after dailing that changed no . its says wrong no

By: Andrew Zarick - Viral Marketing, Guerilla Marketing, Advertising Brooklyn, NY, NYC

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:24:38 +0000

Free International Phone Calls…

A friend of mine pointed me to a company called All Free Calls which offers free (yes its legit) international phone calls to supported country codes. According to TechCrunch,
The company operates under a legislative loophole that gives rural telco’s…

By: الجميل

الجميل — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:22:43 +0000

شخة على شخة تبقى الدنيا فيها زخة

By: lemminks

lemminks — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:24:13 +0000

Has anyone noticed that one of their competitors “FuturePhone.com” was mysteriously shut down?? Are they cracking down on this business now?

Rob

By: Rick Resnik

Rick Resnik — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:51:49 +0000

These numbers are working:

712-338-8868
712-338-7005

By: Cliff Kerr

Cliff Kerr — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:55:29 +0000

Tried AllFreeCalls multiple times on different days to several numbers I usually call in the U.K. Not one call has been successful. The failures come in several different flavors, including a U.S. operator “number is not in service” message (definitely not true), fast busy signals, and dead air.

This dog won’t hunt.

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:21:24 +0000

Ben, you should find skype recognizes numbers if you are on latest version, I had issues with older versions.

Pam

By: Sreen

Sreen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:51:59 +0000

http://www.voipcheap.com provides similar service and its online for the past one and half years. I think voipcheap is a direct competitor to skype cos it compares its pricing with skype. The best thing is it shows how much skype charges for the same call. I prefer voipcheap to skype cos its cheaper and simpler to use than skype.

Above all with voipcheap one can call to many countries for free, eg., US landlines and mobiles – absolutely free for certain period (more than one year in my case) and you will never get a negative reply. God knows who pays for all this…

By: david b

david b — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:49:19 +0000

I have used futurephone (www.futurephone), a similar service (iowa based phone#) with great success and they seem to have more free countries.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:51:42 +0000

Pat Phalen,

Im just saying – it looks like no one has gone to your site to get the phone numbers (except for one day). Thats all.

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:24:13 +0000

Hi Jon/Jorge
please contact me by email to discuss issues you are experiencing as that is not the feedback we are receiving in general.I tried your blogs but your contact details are not available.
my contact details are on my blog.
Chris
We record nothing and keep absolutely no records. In fact our server is purged of all numbers @ 12am EST every night.

By: JRC

JRC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:55:02 +0000

awful service – it sounds like you are calling from the north pole to south africa. Lots of busy signals as well.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:27:23 +0000

How safe is this, what if they record every calls one phones into. One has to be cautious on this one. Nobody gives free for nothing.

By: Jorge Smith

Jorge Smith — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:04:45 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’ve been trying to dial phone numbers in countries that are listed but I keep getting busy signals.

Any idea if this actually works?

- J

By: Alfred Toh

Alfred Toh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:45:40 +0000

I second Erik, Alexa # doesn’t really apply to this company. As a matter of fact, they don’t even make money from their site. Eyeballs doesn’t matter much to them either.

The service is great for now, since it is at it’s early stage, so hopefully they will be able to scale as it grows more popular and not deteriorate.

By: Erik Schwartz

Erik Schwartz — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:32:08 +0000

Alexa numbers are totally meaningless for companies whose business is phone based. Our users visit our site once or twice a month, they access our service via the phone every day.

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:21:47 +0000

Dave G
why would you need daily hits. User needs to get the access number one time, one visit equals a new customer, we got 14708 new visitors in the last 7 days to the site which was after the Alexa spike.
So a potential new 15,000 customers in the last seven days, bet Microsoft would like that.

By: RaviK

RaviK — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:42:07 +0000

DTMF Codes seem to be a problem on that bridge.
Try the 1-712-945-4444 number. Skype works on that one.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:05:31 +0000

Donald – i don’t see this info on vecosys. did they write about it? I got an email from the company with the news. Perhaps they wrote about it when it first launched?

By: Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:59:53 +0000

I’m finding that both the the AllFreeCalls number, along with a similar Iowa number run by a different comapany, have some kind of compatability issues with skype.

When entering the number for my redirected call, using touch-tones over skype, the system doesn’t seem to recognize all the numbers and ultimately complains that the (mal-formed) number isn’t valid.

I’ve heard of some other issues using JaJah and skype… Anyone able to confirm similar problems, and secondly anyone know if Skype is putting a spanner in the works on purpose?

Ben

By: Vinay

Vinay — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:20:32 +0000

Hi Micheal,

Do check out my hack to make Allfreecalls.net work for non-USA people. Now even if you are not in USA, you can use allfreecalls.net. CEO Pat Phelan has endorsed this on his blog.

http://voipguid...-worldwide.html

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:32:27 +0000

i stand corrected then. +672 is a country code for a continent
i have emailed the Australian Base down there to ask where 672 came from
john

By: DrDoubt

DrDoubt — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:27:24 +0000

“The company operates under a legislative loophole that gives rural telco’s a kickback on every received call. That kickback is greater than the cost the company bears for making outbound international calls.”

That cannot be true. can someone here verify this with some numbers?