Jajah: Free international calls (no, I'm not a bot)

[mugen]

I found this website today which lets you call for free internationally using your own phone(between members). I haven't tried it myself yet, but I did some research and it seems legit.
If anyone is interested, here's the link http://www.jajah.com/

[Citizen]

STFU, bot.

[Plekto]

Skype. GTalk. Problem solved. (I figure if you can post here, you have the prerequisite InterNet.)

[Random]

Skype. GTalk. Problem solved. (I figure if you can post here, you have the prerequisite InterNet.)
Doesn't mean he has a microphone or speakers, though.

[mugen]

Skype. GTalk. Problem solved. (I figure if you can post here, you have the prerequisite InterNet.)
As far as I know skype requires either:

A- Both users to have a headset or skype-phone
B- Money. The person calling will still need a headset though.

[Random]

Correct, but Jajah apparently requires both people to be members and have landlines or mobile phones.

[MeneerDijk]

What happens to the phone numbers you enter? Will they be sold to marketeers?

[Roxie]

As far as I know skype requires either:

A- Both users to have a headset or skype-phone
B- Money. The person calling will still need a headset though.
skype's free between skype users. all you need is a mic.

[mugen]

What happens to the phone numbers you enter? Will they be sold to marketeers?
That's why I haven't tried it yet, I don't know. But I'm guessing a lot of people are not as paranoid as I am and will use it anyway.

Or you could, you know, read the disclaimer before you sign up.

@toxic: I know, but it requires both users to be online, jajah lets you call people on their phone.

[Radiance]

How silly, all I require is a name and a face. Silly VoIP, when will you ever learn.

[Plekto]

Yes, Skype does video and audio conferencing(and allows each side to turn each portion on and off as they wish, so video one way or audio one way is easily doable.

Just need speakers and a mic.(though a mic and a webcam work better, obviously). Free, too(PC to PC). I use it every Sunday to talk to my friend in Portland for several hours.

[Jay]

What about when you want to call dear Auntie Sallie over in Taiwan but she doesn't have computer access very regularly, Plekto?

Skype and GTalk are right off the top shelf, but Jajah sounds pretty cool, too.

[whispering]

Yes, Skype does video and audio conferencing(and allows each side to turn each portion on and off as they wish, so video one way or audio one way is easily doable.

Just need speakers and a mic.(though a mic and a webcam work better, obviously). Free, too(PC to PC). I use it every Sunday to talk to my friend in Portland for several hours.
I think its pretty clear what Skype can and cant do, it cant call to my mobile phone for free.

Anyway, from the Jajah site:

"JAJAH uses the Registration Data about You for internal purposes, to improve its site and to better tailor the site to meet Your needs. In addition, JAJAH uses the Registration Data to analyze site usage and to deliver to You information about certain promotions, services or items that might interest You."

So i think MeneerDijk is right, though i'm not bored enough to read their Privacy Policy further...

[Plekto]

It's infinitely easier for her to get InterNet than to pay for cell phone charges. But yes, Skype is currently free anyplace on the planet that has a computer at each end. And audio-only it works fine over a modem/wireless. SO one person could be using a data plan(Blackberry account/etc) and wi-fi or bluetoothing to their PC for audio(or if it's a Windows CE phone, runnig Skype directly). Of course, if they're in a high-speed 'hotspot", you're even better off. :)

[Random]

Out of interest, why do you capitalise the N in Internet?

[Jetsetlemming]

Out of interest, why do you capitalise the N in Internet?
Out of interest, why did you singularize your internets?

[Random]

Because it's "The Internet"?
Internets is a meme.
I'm seriously asking him why he has a capital N.

[Plekto]

Originally it was Inter-Net. Basically all ways are correct and you find a lot of old-timers doing it the original way.

Type in "Inter-Net" in Google. Notice the "did you mean?" :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions

**quote**
Another example is IBM's TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview (ISBN 0-7384-2165-0) from 1989, which stated that:

The words internetwork and internet is [sic] simply a contraction of the phrase interconnected network.
****
I suppose I should put a hyphen in. Usually it's now uppercase now to denote The Web as opposed to The Backbone/underlying system, but it's been around since 1969.(wikipedia). I remember back in the mid 80s talking to people online from Europe on BBSs - a decade before The Web.(and yes I kicked myself for not registering about 500 names when they launched the DNS services. I knew and ignored it for a month. Would have paid for college and then some.(The Web was miserably small and college and commercial only until about 1998 or so - nobody saw how it would go nuts)

Anyway... back to our program...

In two words: Skype. Works.

[erbiumfiber]

My daughter's university (Cambridge, UK) supposedly won't let them use skype. This bums me out as it was my main hope of keeping in contact with her. I have a Brastel card and it's about 7 yen (about 7 cents) per minute, guess I'm stuck with that...

[Plekto]

Gtalk also works well. Very low bandwidth and since it's run via Google, most places don't block it.

[erbiumfiber]

Well, I can use the phone card to call her mobile so it probably makes sense anyway as incoming calls cost nothing on mobiles in the UK. Finding her in her room working on her computer (or in her room at all or working) will probably be next to impossible so I think I'm stuck with Brastel. Not really a problem as she is super busy (socializing) and doesn't have more than 10 minutes to talk.

When she was at boarding school she HAD to be in her room after 11PM so she was a captive audience...

It's hard letting go as a parent...even though you want them to be free and independent, a part of you really misses having them around. Unless they were horrible teenagers you couldn't wait to get rid of...

[phenyl]

Although i am a skype-user (would be nigh impossible to get all my contacts to move...), I am looking a bit at ekiga (http://ekiga.org/), which is based on the open sip-protocol. (Windows/Linux)

Maybe the university would have less problems with that? Member-member is also free.

There is also openwengo (http://www.openwengo.org/), which is also available for Windows and Linux as well as the mac.

[Jetsetlemming]

Because it's "The Internet"?
Internets is a meme.
I'm seriously asking him why he has a capital N.
:P

In two words: Skype. Works.
You have to pay to make calls to real world phones with Skype. It's only free if you're talking to someone else with the program over the internet.

[Plekto]

Well, it's like that most places. PC to PC, Skype is the best, because the video conferencing WORKS.