Verizon wireless - Re: Futurephone: calling globally for "free", okay, uses your minutes. Free to almost eve

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Re: Futurephone: calling globally for "free", okay, uses your minutes. Free to almost eve

verivin@yahoo.com

2006-10-29, 10:33 pm

Has anyone successfully made a call using Futurephone?

http://futurephone.com/

You dial 712-858-8883, then 011, then the country code and number. If
the country is Canada, you just dial 011, 1, the area code, and the
number.

Every time I try it, I get a message that either 1) the area I called
isn't serviced or 2) the number can't go thru as dialed. I've tried
different numbers in different countries.

Any success stories?

dr wrote:
> 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)
>
>
> --
> 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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