Free Calls to 60 Countries – Gizmo5
VoIP provider SIPphone has launched a promotion which offers free calls to any land line and Mobile Phones in Australia, as well a 59 other countries.SIPphone is even offering free calls to mobiles in some countries, including Canada, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, USA and others.
The free calling offer is available through SIPphone’s Skype-like software client called Gizmo5.
The only catch in the promotion is that you have to be an “active Gizmo user” and get your contacts to sign up for Gizmo and add their PSTN numbers to their Gizmo profile.
Gizmo is similar to the Skype client but considerably more feature-rich, including features like call recording and voice mail that are extra cost add-on for Skype. It’s available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Gizmo Project is also the first instant messaging network to be fully interoperable with Google Talk, so you can text-chat with Google Talk contacts via Gizmo without having to sign up for a Google Talk account yourself (and vice versa).
Gizmo started out as a VoIP client that was more standards-compliant than Skype. it uses industry-standard SIP protocols. However, it attracted criticism because despite using SIP, it could only connect to the SIPphone network.
The new version 5.0 can also connect to third-party Asterisk servers, allowing you to setup a VoIP PABX in the office and use Gizmo as a front-end.
Any call to a Gizmo5 user is free. No matter when, no matter where, no matter how long. Free. There’s no monthly service charge. Nor is there a set up cost. Gizmo5 is free.
Do you ever have to pay for internet calls? No. Again, Gizmo5 is free. There is no membership fee. The download is free. Where are the strings? That’s the point, there are none.