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Everybody ta498lks about VOIP but except for standalone-phones and software solutions there is not much available. Especially on the mobile phone market it seems to take a long time to get VOIP on your phone, smartphone or PDA. This is because phone creators are working with the major carriers who do not want to see cheap VOIP calls with normal handsets. The profit margin would be too low. There are however some other solutions to get the power of VOIP on your phone. Web-activated calls are phone calls initiated over the internet and routed over the internet between two (or more) normal phones. That means you do not need any special equipment except a phone and a web-browser with internet connection to initiate a call.

Basically you need to fill in your number and the number you want to call in a web interface and hit the call button. A computer will initiate a call between the two phones. It will first call your phone on which you get a computer voice asking you to wait for a moment until it connects to the second phone. After that you have a line just like it would be doing a regular phone call. Some providers, in particular Jajah.com provide free calls between its53F users. That means everybody who has registered his number with a free Jajah account, can call any other Jajah user for free (excluding some very remote countries and some mobile phone networks). For example a cellphone user in the US could call a cellphone user in China completely for free.

Until now there was one problem, especially for BlackBerry users. You were in need of a desktop computer with a browser to enter the phone numbers and activate the call. But now there is a free utility program for the BlackBerry called "BBCalls" which plugs into the BlackBerry address book and allows you to call any contact via the Jajah service by simply clicking on it. Internally the program loads the website and activates the call. You will be in need of a data connection, but this should be available for nearly every BlackBerry users anyway.

# posted by voip71722 @ 5:37 PM