Free Overseas Phone Calls to the United States from Overseas

If you travel on business quite often to other countries, or you like to travel a lot, wouldn't it be nice if you could make free overseas phone calls back home? Before the invention of VoIP (voice over internet protocol), you had to have a special phone and pay outrageous amounts of money for a plan that would allow you to call overseas. Even today, if you are currently with a provider in the United States and will be living or travelling to the United Kingdom for example, you will have to pay for a new phone if you do not have one that is capable of working over there and pay for international rates.

Here's the kicker, even if you call someone in the UK on your phone, international rates still apply because you are using international cell phone towers. Beware, some cell phone companies will allow you to go on a seasonal plan that is about $5 per month and you have to put yourself on seasonal every 6 months. This is where they catch most customers off guard. So you think "this is great! I can leave and go on seasonal plan for 6 months and just keep renewing it without losing my service", however, for every 6 months you place yourself on seasonal , your contract with them is extended.

This is precisely the reason to go with a VoIP service. Magic Jack is s service that is very reasonable. What Magic Jack is, is a company that will send you a USB phone jack. You simply plug the USB device into your computer and then take a regular household phone and plug it in. You will hear a dial tone and even have your own voicemail set up. Here's the nice thing about this device, it only costs about $19 a year and you can make free international calls when you are in the UK. So how exactly does this work? Well, when you first sign up for Magic Jack, you are assigned a number based on your current location in the United States. Once you select the location, Magic Jack will assign you a number with the proper area code.

Now, when you travel over to the United Kingdom, as long as you have internet connection, you will be able to call people back in the United States for free because you are calling from an area code that is in the US. However, you cannot make phone calls to the UK for free since you would be calling from a US number on the Magic Jack. If you have a laptop that is capable, you can also talk through the built-in microphone. Better yet, if you have a bluetooth device, connect it to your laptop and you can select it to make your phone calls through Magic Jack. Simply leave your Magic Jack device hooked up to your computer all day and it acts as a regular house phone.So why pay for expensive cell phone bills when you can make free phone calls? There are other providers out there that allow you to call over the internet, but none that provide you with a portable phone jack. Skype is another service that you can use and you can talk to other people on Skype for absolutely free. Even people in other countries that are on Skype, you can talk to them for free and even use a video conference option. With the advancements in telecommunications, who knows where we will be at in the near future.