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Dialing Canada Really Cheap

Sep 25, 2008
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In general, Canada is very friendly towards VoIP technology, so if you live inside Canada as I do, you must have a long list of telecom carriers that offer you good rates to call Canada. But if you are outside of Canada and want to call your families and friends inside, you probably don’t have any handy options to call cheap. A little clarification first: by saying “call cheap”, here I mean the calling rate to be under 5 cents per minute.

So what are the quick options, if any? To me nothing is quicker than downloading a pc to phone software, deposit some bucks, then start calling. If you have the similar mindset we can narrow our search to an array of VoIP software for worldwide internet users. Let’s take a quick look at them:

1. Skype

Skype is quite popular nowadays, and it’s no mistake to go with Skype, the price is 2.1 cent, but with VAT added, it will be 2.4 cent per minute. Skype also offers an unlimited calling plan but it has nothing to do with you – it only offers to North American users where phone calls are already cheap. So you have to go with Skype’s pay as you go plan.

Upside: popular, sound quality and pricing.

Downside: none

2. Vbuzzer

Vbuzzer is a Canadian product, it offers cheaper rate than Skype does when dialing Canada (http://www.vbuzzer.com/ld/callcanada.php) - 1.5 cent per minute. It means 40% cheaper than Skype, and with $10 deposit, you can almost double your calling time with Vbuzzer then with Skype. In terms of quality, Vbuzzer is slightly better than Skype, in voice clarity, much better in voice consistency, according to my experience.

Upside: excellent quality, good pricing, also an excellent instant messenger with multi protocol support.

Downside: none, except as a Canadian company, I don’t know why they are charging fees in US Dollars.

3. Betamax series

I call it Betamax service because it has many affiliate websites, all with voipxxx.com such as voipbuster, voipcheap etc. Believe me there are a lot of them. Each of the sites, at their early launches, are typically offer free minutes to many countries: US, Canada, UK, and many other European countries. Once they build up the user volume, they will require you to make a $10/$20 deposit and they tell you it is good for the next, say, 4 months of free call. You are happy so you make the deposit, but it happens that you don’t call a lot in the next 4 months, Betamax is then charging the full payment and raise their price to very high. Then the next site will be born shortly, if not simultaneously.

As a user, you can play their game by searching the new born site, and take advantage of their “free promotion” – but don’t make any deposit as they may require, because you simply don’t need to, why pay them when there will be always new promotions ahead?

Upside: free or very cheap minutes when promoting

Downside: questionable business practice of revoking deposit and raising price

4. Yahoo Voice

Yahoo Instant Messenger is a very popular IM, but I have no stats to show how popular Yahoo Voice is, it could have millions of users, but not myself yet. In writing this blog, I checked Yahoo Voice website, and surprisingly find that their call Canada rate is very cheap, 1 cent per minute, yes one cent per minute. I probably should try it next time. This company has very broad product lines, but the problem is that none is dominant. What a pity!

Upside: no comments as I have no direct experience

Downside: no comments as I have no direct experience

Here is a video to explain how to dial Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLtHGACYMo

For additional information, please visit Vbuzzer blog about dialing Canada.

http://www.vbuzzer.com/blog/voip-service/how-to-dial-canada-with-vbuzzer-messenger.html

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Vbuzzer Enables Unlimited Toronto Cell Phone Calls

Sep 22, 2008
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Now you can make unlimited mobile phone calls within Greater Toronto Area.

http://www.vbuzzer.com/ld/torontocellphone.php

Introduction

At an extra $20 per month, Vbuzzer call back service allow you to make unlimited “outgoing” calls within Greater Toronto Area, as long as you have an unlimited incoming plan to bundle with it. This means you can have a unlimited Toronto city calling plan at a total of $45/month (the unlimited incoming plan will typically cost you $25).

Toronto cell phone users have to, as their fellow Canadians, pay higher fees for cellular phone calls, there is no unlimited city calling plan being offered, and even an unlimited incoming plan can easily cost them $35/month. Compared to the $99/month unlimited domestic calls that US consumers can get, Canadian mobile phone plans are pathetic. But things have changed recently, a cell phone call back service offered by Vbuzzer (http://www.vbuzzer.com/ld/torontocellphone.php ) offers great value for heavy mobile phone users in Greater Toronto Area.

Price of Unlimited Mobile Calls

Now with Vbuzzer Cell Phone Call Back Service, you can make unlimited mobile phone calls at a total cost of $45/month - $20 for Vbuzzer Callback and $25 for unlimited incoming plan from your cellular carrier. The service is pretty easy to use too: it requires you to dial a local 416 access number from your cell phone, then hang up when you hear a busy tone, the system will instantly call you back and prompt you to enter your destination number. Once you enter it, the system will connect the call for you. This way, technically both you and the person you called are receiving calls from Vbuzzer Call Back System.

Local Calling Area

From my experience the “local area” is the same as Bell Canada’s Toronto Local Areas – all 416, 647 area codes are covered, many 905 areas are included too, some are not covered, these are typically distance 905 regions like York Regions (Aurora, New Market, etc.) Durham region (Whiteby etc.)

Other Calling Areas

The $20/month allows me to call Montreal and Ottawa for free! It is really sweet, although they didn’t make it official but they didn’t block or charge such long distance calls.

The Chip

For some GSM phones, there are very thin chips that can be embedded into the SIM card seal, the chips function to automate the process, so you just enter the destination number and press “call” button, the chips work behind the scene to complete the call back process for you, you will be automatically called back and get calls connected.

It offers great convenience, I bought a chip from Vbuzzer for a one-time $25, and I love to use the call back since then, as it is super easy and effortless.

Service Quality

The service is very stable. I use it for 3 months and made a lot of phone calls, saving a lot of money, and never had a single downtime.

Here is a video to explain how the cell phone callback works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qw1h7f0Es

For additional information, please visit Vbuzzer blog about Unlimited Toronto Cell Phone Calling.

http://www.vbuzzer.com/blog/voip-service/vbuzzer-enables-unlimited-toronto-cell-phone-calls.html

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Vbuzzer Toronto Phone Service

Sep 17, 2008
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Top quality Toronto phone service at lowest price provided by Vbuzzer only, pay only $50/year and get a Toronto phone line instantly.

http://www.vbuzzer.com/ld/torontophone.php

Vbuzzer Toronto Phone Service at $50/year

We usually expect two things from a phone service: solid quality and good price, and I can find both in Vbuzzer, a Toronto based VoIP company that offers very reliable voip service at very good price.

In terms of quality, I've been using Vbuzzer with a 416 phone number of 416 area code for 3 years now, the service is very robust and reliable, everytime I pick up my phone adaptor I will have my dial tone. And when I call Greater Toronto Area, the quality is the same as the Bell phone I used to have in my home, my friends can't tell the difference either.

That's why I've recommended vbuzzer to many friends, many of them signup vbuzzer, and use it with a VoIP ATA adaptor as a second phone line, some even use it as primary phone line.

Here is a video clip of Vbuzzer's Toronto Phone Service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXf3kcq0Xh0

Another cool thing is its rock bottom price - $50/year for a Toronto phone service with caller ID, call forward, voicemail, and you can have call history even on local phone calls sent and received. Isn't it cool?

Sign up is like a breeze, a few clicks and enter your credit card information online, you will get a Toronto phone number (416 area code) within a few minutes.

Vbuzzer is a software based VoIP, but it supports open standard SIP, that means you can configure a VoIP ATA adaptor to work with your vbuzzer account. Known adaptors that work with vbuzzer pretty well are Linksys PAP2, Grandstream, and Cisco ATA186 etc. you can find and buy the items on ebay.com, if you live in GTA, you can also find local ATA vendors on vbuzzer website.

$50/year for a Toronto phone line is a stunning price - half of the cheapest VoIP alternatives in town. For many Canadians telephone service is still expensive and they have to pay more than their US counterparts, Vbuzzer changed the landscape with a solid quality, that's why Vbuzzer is highly recommended.

For more information about Vbuzzer's Toronto phone line, you can visit their website

How to Get Vbuzzer Toronto Phone Service?

To get the best Toronto phone service is really easy, just go to http://www.vbuzzer.com/ld/torontophone.php All it takes is to download the software, register an account, use your credit card to make a $50 online payment. In seconds, you will get a brand new Toronto phone number with 416 area code. No waiting, no hassling, straight acquisition.

When to Get Vbuzzer Toronto Phone Service?

The quick answer is: immediately. The price is so good that it can be sold out fast. You don't want to miss the opportunity.

Toronto Phone Service for Local Calls?

Yes you can make local phone calls with this toronto phone number including 416, 647 and some 905 areas. In short, all GTA areas that Bell Canada considers to be local calling areas are included.

You should note that 411 and 911 calls are not possible with vbuzzer, because it is a software program running on your personal computer, it is not a replacement of your traditional phones.

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