Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
How to Make REALLY CHEAP International Long Distance Calls
People who tend to call overseas a lot usually rack up huge long distance bills. Some resort to using pesky pre-paid calling cards which are inconvenient, it’s hard to know how much time you have left on the card, and more importantly unreliable in terms of call quality.
A solution that not many people use or think about for heavy international calling is getting a VOIP (voice over IP) Internet Phone Line.
Basically, you’ll get a little box that will plug into 3 places:
- the wall outlet for electricity
- any regular telephone – it can even be cordless, and
- into your cable modem or router.
After that, you use the phone attached like any other regular phone — the only difference is that you’ll be saving tons of moola with each call and you get a bunch of premium features that you’d normally have to pay Verizon or BellSouth for like Caller ID with Name, Call Forwarding, Ring Blast (simultaneously can ring your home phone, cell phone, etc and the 1st phone line that picks it up gets the call!), voicemail, email notifications of voicmails, etc.

But basically, you’ll pay incredible international calling rates — For example, only 3 cents/minute to Greece with SunRocket.
In fact, there are OVER 40 COUNTRIES THAT COST ONLY 3 CENTS/MINUTE ANYTIME:
Australia – $0.03/min
Austria – $0.03/min
Belgium – $0.03/min
Chile – $0.03/min
China – $0.03/min
Czech Republic – $0.03/min
Denmark – $0.03/min
France – $0.03/min
Germany – $0.03/min
Greece – $0.03/min
Ireland – $0.03/min
Israel – $0.03/min
Italy – $0.03/min
Japan – $0.03/min
Luxembourg – $0.03/min
Malaysia – $0.03/min
Netherlands – $0.03/min
New Zealand – $0.03/min
Norway – $0.03/min
Poland – $0.03/min
Portugal – $0.03/min
Singapore – $0.03/min
South Korea – $0.03/min
Spain – $0.03/min
Sweden – $0.03/min
Switzerland – $0.03/min
Taiwan – $0.03/min
United Kingdom – $0.03/min
And here’s the ESSISTME TIP OF THE DAY: If you talk more than 1 hours/day on international calls (5 hours/month), you should look into the Sunrocket SunSpot’s Edition Plan which gives you UNLIMITED DOMESTIC + INTERNATIONAL CALLING ANYTIME ALL YEAR.
I guess this really means “talk is cheap”!
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