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Futurephone: calling globally for "free", okay, uses your minutes. Free to almost everyw
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| I did a quick search, and didn't find a title containing futurephone. If
this is a dup, sorry.
Mac Pogue, an editor for NYTimes, discovered and wrote an article about
futurephone, and then had a blog for it as well. Basically free long
distance, after you place an initial call to Iowa.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006...pogues-posts-4/
Seems you can call a number in the USA, and then dial a number anywhere in
the world for no additional charges.
"There's no contract, fees, taxes, signup, registration or calling cards;
you don't even give them your name or e-mail address. You just pick up the
phone-home phone, office phone, cellphone-and make a free call to Argentina,
Australia, China, England, France, Iceland, Israel, Mexico, Venezuela or any
of 40 other countries. Just might be something to look into if you want to
call internationally." Mac writes. Dr
(If this is old news, sorry, I've been away; and I have nothing to gain by
passing this on, not everyone gets Mac's newsletters)
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dr.news //stores.ebay.com/better-price-wireless (not better than you
deserve, just more than you're used to) //free.better-price.biz (for new
lines of wireless service; all carriers; the phones are almost always a
better-price)
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