No fee or unlimited time for network calls

Author: Zhang Tianwen Source: Saidi

With the increasing improvement of VOIP technology, IP phones are no longer in the water or in the mirror. People who do not operate on computers can also use China Telecom, China Unicom or JiTong's IP phone cards to send low-cost communications to friends and relatives on the other side of the ocean. The "chicken" family is also making full use of the high-tech means of Internet connection, using a variety of software to contact friends. Network telephone software is endless, aside from the PC-PC software, can be PC-Phone communication software there are several, such as Iphone, Net2phone, Dotdialer, and many PC-PC software are gradually providing PC-Phone functions, such as Media Ring Talk 7. version x and Webphone 4.0. Originally, I wanted to write an article on cost comparison of various types of network phones. A new type of network phone is available, and it is free of charge! So I changed the topic to how to make a free international long distance trip. I believe that it will soon become a new kind of online phone. What software is it? Okay, don't worry about it. It's Dialpad.com's free online phone number Dialpad.

It is not a software, it is just a small Java applet and does not need to download any program. Therefore, it is a new type of network phone. Its biggest advantage is that it does not have to pay any fee or unlimited call time, allow anyone to call a regular call through the Dialpad website. Haha, you can have a phone call with your friends in the United States!

Let me start preparing for the first call.

1. Registration: Open the browser, enter the http://www.dialpad.com, enter, click Join now to register a new user, display the agreement, click agree (dare not agree ). The registration process is similar to the free email address. You can click ID Check to Check whether the user name to be registered is available. Other procedures are omitted. After successful registration, you can enable the user name immediately, even if you receive a congratulation email in another day.

2. Create a phone book: there are usually more than a dozen digits than the neighbor's phone number for international distance calls. If your memory is as bad as mine, you 'd better create your own online phone book, you don't need to translate the text when you call later. ^_^. Return to the home page and log on at the lower left corner. The window in Figure 2 appears, and the dial (Dialpad) window appears at the same time. Because the Dialpad Java program is slow to start, the dial disk must wait for a while before it can be fully displayed. Ignore it first. Click the plus sign to Add a contact. Click Add to Add the first contact in your phone book. Follow these steps to create your own online address book.

3. Call. Two call methods are available. The first type is to dial directly in the dial. After each logon, a dial is displayed. The dial design is concise. The dial is on the right. The clear number, redial and dial buttons are displayed below. The green light on the left side of the analog LCD screen is the volume adjustment key of the microphone and microphone. You just need to click the number disk with the mouse (0 before the International location should be removed), and then click "Dial". In a few seconds, you will hear a series of crisp Dial-up sounds. Wait a moment and the familiar voice will be passed out of the speaker. This is an unlimited international long distance! Throw the stopwatch! I spent half an hour in the U.S. for the first time! The second call method is to click in the leftmost column of each contact in the phone book. The Dial will automatically display the number to be called, and then click Dial. Just wait.

Dialpad.com's free online phone number was launched in October this year. Within two weeks, without any deliberate market hype, 0.12 million registered users were developed, within a month, it reached an astonishing 0.5 million users, with a cumulative monthly call duration of 14 million minutes. The low cost of the IP Phone is all borne by the banner Advertisement bar on the dial.

Unfortunately, Dialpad only supports normal calls to the United States so far, but there is reason to believe that it will continue to support more regions (in fact, this is the case ). Because it is a Java program, the system is required to be Win9x, NT, And the browser is IE4.0 or NC4.5 or later. Otherwise, it may not be correctly executed. Java Virtual Machine (Java Virtual Machine) is built in NC4.5 and later versions. It may not be installed by IE users and must be customized for installation. Select Accept all cookies in the browser. In addition, like most network phones, Dialpad does not support _ blank "> firewalls, but the LAN can be used by configuring Wingate, Sygate, and other software. Specific help can be found on its website. If you have installed Netsonic and other Web acceleration software, it is best not to enable it, which may cause Java program to work abnormally.

How is it? Don't try it soon. If you use it, recommend it to relatives and friends. What? You have no sound card or microphone for the treasure "chicken? Me and me! @ # $ % ......

If your friends and family are distributed around the world, and you want to use your PC to communicate with them, you may wish to try some online calls, of course, preferably free of charge.

After accessing the Internet without a phone, click the mouse to enter some network sites and enter the corresponding account and password. A yellow phone is displayed on the screen, click the phone number you want to call on the phone or on the computer keyboard. A few seconds later, the phone will pass: "hello ......" A clear voice came from the other party. This is a popular network phone number. Unlike IP phones, the network phone number can be called directly over the Internet without requiring a phone number. The quality of the call is clearer and faster than that of the IP phone number. A network Phone can be roughly divided into three types: Pc to Pc, Pc to Phone, and Phone to Phone. The biggest difference between a network Phone and a general Phone is that the network Phone uses the Internet to save a fee during transmission. Pc-to-Phone can be used by computers to directly call any common Phone in international or domestic regions and cities. The call fees are surprisingly low. The fee table shows: $0.33/minute for us, $0.59/minute for Hong Kong, $0.30/minute for Singapore, $0.41/minute for UK, and $0.50/minute for Italy, to Germany 0.41 yuan/minute, to France 0.41 yuan/minute, to New Zealand 0.50 yuan/minute, to Tokyo 0.67 yuan/minute. For example, the network telephone fee is less than 15% of the current IP Phone Fee!

If your friends and family are distributed around the world, and you want to use your PC to communicate with them, you may wish to try some online calls, of course, preferably free of charge. How can I make a free PC-to-Phone call? What equipment is needed? Generally, a computer with a sound card, a headset microphone, and a set of software that can use the PC-to-Phone function are required. the software includes ICQ2000b, MSN Messenger, Service, and wenone so that you can prepare for the trip.

1. First, you need to obtain the MSN Messenger service software. You can download it from the MSN website http // messenger.msn.com.tw/download/download.asp. However, you must obtain the Microsoft Passport or Hotmail account before using MSN Messenger. If you have applied for one of the above accounts, you can select "next page" for software download. Otherwise, you must select "get Passport ". ".

2. after the "Passport registration" screen is filled in, and then press "register", Passport will immediately send a member confirmation letter to your mailbox, and then click the link URL to see the email already exists verification screen.

3. After obtaining the Passport, directly go to http // messenger.msn.com.tw/download/download2.asp to download the file, which is about 757kbthe file name mmssetup.exe.

4. install other MSN Messenger software in the same way. After installation, the system will immediately start and the "Welcome to MSN Messenger service" screen will appear. Click "Next" here ".

5. Next, you can apply for a free passport image. You only need to click "Next.

6. then, enter the previously applied and authenticated email account and password, and then press "Next" to see the "Congratulations on installation completed" screen, and then press "finish" to start MSN messenger.

7. Test the microphone. You can press the "audio player" option under the "tool" option to display the microphone and speaker screen, press "Next", and select the microphone and speaker option. Next, you only need to adjust the "adjust the speaker volume" and "adjust the microphone volume" as appropriate to prepare to call the PC to Phone network.

8. Press "dial phone number" under the "dial-up" tool icon of MSN Messenger to display the MSN Messenger dialing screen.

9. here we will focus on the U.S. trial, as for the telephone number, the US weather forecast telephone number is used as the test number. The US local telephone number is 205-916-0021. After you enter the telephone number, you can directly dial the number and finally hear the weather forecast in the US.. Before the formal dial-up, we should see two online advertisements jumping out, and there is no way to minimize the window during the call.