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

Dennis Ferguson

2006-10-30, 10:34 pm

On 2006-10-30, verivin@yahoo.com <verivin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?

For me it gets "number can't go through as dialed" messages when I
phone real phones, but for some reason will ring through to overseas
SkypeIn numbers from the same countries. I wonder where they get their
long-distance service from?

I think this blog post

http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/10/free_internatio.html

is plausible, that they're running an arbitrage scheme between
the low cost of long distance and the high call termination charges
that some small, rural phone companies still get (oh, and that
they're having the difficulty topping up their SkypeOut account
that Skype "customer service" has made famous).

Dennis Ferguson

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