On 1/12/2013 4:27 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
I'm looking for free VOIP options for Android phones.
As already mentioned, red phone is an option.
Google Hangouts has free video calls but it seems that the ring time usually isn't as long as the time taken to establish a connection so the caller often has it ring out before the recipient is notified of a call attempt.
Skype seems to demand a Hotmail/Microsoft account before it can be used.
Yeah, I won't use Skype, it's always had some issue or another -- privacy is the latest issue with M$ ownership and NSA spying....
https://www.pennytel.com.au/personal-voip/plans/free-access
Pennytel says that they aren't currently accepting new signups. When they do they apparently allow free calls to other users of the same service.
MNF now own PennyTel, it is a recent occurrence. Almost ANY VoIP provider will allow zero cost (aside from data) for their owner users to call each other. MNF has some Whirlpool offers that might be interesting. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1922559
My aim is to have free calls to relatives who have Android phones. Many of my relatives are using Aldi with the $15 for 2G plan, so they pay for calls but 2G of data is way more than most of them will use in a month - essentially the marginal cost of data is zero.
The real problems are the slower data on 3G with more latency (unless you only do WiFi) and the heavy penalty of counting data in 1MB chunks on Aldi plans. VoIP via mobile, using the mobile data network is never going to be anywhere near as good as other mobile data options. A.