I have seen so many tips and tricks on Internet which says make free calls or cheap STD ISD calls and most of them don’t even work. Here is one trick which I tried and worked for me. I’m sure this will work for you.
Though before sharing this trick, most of free voice call features works on advertisement. They provide you free calling feature because they run advertisement before the call. This is the same in the case of free SMS.
To make this free calls we are going to use Skype. Open Skype and key in this number
1-800-3733-411 (1-800-free-411)
Since its a 800 number you will not be charged anything. You will be welcomed with an automated voice message. Upon asking, for various voice response say free call.
After That dial your desired phone number. This free call will last for 5 minutes only but you can again redial the number by restarting the process.
I’m sure by using this you can save lots of your bills on your phone calls. Do share any other trick you know to save bills on phone calls.
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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Nice tip , Harsh
Really would save many bucks. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Harsh,
This is the best trick to call and save hundred dollars in a month.
Is it works better than Google Talk ?
Awesome tip.. Thanks for the update.
I still believe nothing in this world comes for free !
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♥ One should be careful while using such services
♥ If possible we must avoid passing sensitive information over such calls
♥ As long as possible making a judicious usage of such services would make it last longer ( who knows provider may introduce an upper cap anytime soon upon the total usage
♥ Thanks for sharing such tricks , p@r@noid !
You are absolutely correct!!
“I still believe nothing in this world comes for free !”
Nice Trick!! but how do i call a number if it is a mobile number for example :9836200021
Quite confusing trck!!
first type country code +91 then type 9836200021
eg:- +919836200021
Enjoy………..!!!
Harsh, the same trick also works with the Y! Messenger’s Yahoo Voice Service.
I Agree with Rakesh. These tricks work for a short period of time till the promotion is on.
I tried it but it returned the error “You need skype credit to call this phone number”
This free service won’t lost long I suppose. Any how thanks for sharing.
not working for me yet, says number busy. nice share, nevertheless
Same over here…
Says number is busy..
Thanks for the info Harsh..
The trick doesnt seem to work for me. Does this trick work on Yahoo?
This isn’t working for me. It’s telling me that i didn’t have skype credit. Do i need to buy skype credit to make this work?
Nice information I need to try it out…………..
Thank you once again for the information……………
Hey you should always add the country code before the mobile number eg. if u want to call on mobile no. 98xxxxxxxx then go with 9198xxxxxxxx for india…….. (or respective county code) Hope this info is useful
The service has been stopped due to ‘continued misuse’ as per the site.
this is not working i m tried to do this i know all about or read also but really not working
All the ideas fail in UAE.If you have idea for UAE plz tell me.
call is not starting skype.nothing happens.i m from india.is there anyway to std call .please tell me.i tried yahoo messanger also.but it is also not working.
The trick is not working anymore. The Free Call option on the IVR menu is no longer availble now. The only options are:
1. Business
2. Government
3. Residential
@Nikhil Seems like they shut down the service.
Though you can try other services but they are limited to certain countries…
You can try Whistle which is good and it has a desktop version as well: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/unlimited-free-calls-to-u-s-a-from-iphone-and-computer-using-whistle-phone.html