Sunday, May 11, 2008

Call Landlines & Mobiles from Google Talk now

If you are signed in to google talk for 24 hours a day, then this post is for you.Now, you can call any landline or mobile from google talk. Yes.Its true. But it's not free ( i know you would be disappointed after hearing this).

All you need to do is, just goto http://www.gtalk2voip.com/& follow the steps mentioned below,
1) Once you go to the website, just subscribe by giving your gmail id and click on "Invite". Now, when you log into google talk, you will see service@gtalk2voip.com has added you as a contact. Just accept the invitation
2) Click on service@gtalk2voip.com chat window and type 'MYPAGE' & enter. You will receive a link. Just click on that.
3) From the page, you can see your current balance, your SIPBroker ID & some more information. The next question is how to buy credits. Here you go.
4) Once you get your page, click on the second tab, 'Buy Credits'. You can buy credits using the following options,
a) Buy credits using PayPal
b) Buy credits using WebMoney
I would suggest you to buy credits using PayPal.
5) If the payment is not enabled, just send an email to "team@gtalk2voip.com" to enable PayPal payment for your email address.
6) Thats it. you are all set. The next obvious question would be how to call a landline/mobile.
7) Click on service@gtalk2voip.com & open it up in a chat window . Now type the following 'CALL Countrycode-AreaCode-Number' in E.164 format. For eg. 91-452-2680450 and press enter. A call will be initiated. Accept the call and wait for some seconds. The call would then be routed to the destined number.

The voice quality is excellent since the provider uses an algorithm based on ASR (Answer Seizure Ratio). The lower cost for a given destination and the higher ASR, the more probability is given to route your call through a certain service provider. ASR is a percentage of well placed calls to total calls routed through a service provider, which is calculated using pinalty-based algorithm.

For more technical information, just click here .

Some other cool features are
1) You can make voice calls between Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger & Yahoo!
2) You can call SIP phones & SIP services
3) Free toll-free calling to 1-800, 1-866, 1-877 and 1-888 numbers via SIP Broker

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