{"id":1360,"date":"2007-12-14T02:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T10:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/free-outgoing-calls\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T02:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T10:39:42","slug":"free-outgoing-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/free-outgoing-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Outgoing Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So awhile back, I hit onto this page while searching for VoIP info: <a href=\"http:\/\/nocostvoip.blogspot.com\/\"> Zero Cost Voip Calls<\/a>. The blog really only has 2 entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nocostvoip.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/viatalk-down-grandcentral-is-up.html\">Viatalk down, GrandCentral is UP!!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nocostvoip.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/zero-cost-voip-calls.html\">Zero Cost Voip Calls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This gave me an idea on how to make <strong>free outgoing calls<\/strong> with my current setup: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/voicestick-replacement-ipkall-with-grandcentral\/\">VoiceStick Replacement &#8211; IPKall with GrandCentral<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I basically have unlimited incoming calls now due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipkall.com\/\">IPKall<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeworlddialup.com\/\">FWD<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=br_ss_hs\/002-5477801-7638416?keywords=pap2&#038;platform=gurupa&#038;url=index%3Dblended&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20\">PAP2<\/a>. But to make outgoing phone calls, I still had to use my cell phone, and what sucks about making phone calls to customer service and technical support is that you&#8217;re on hold typically for over 30 minutes and that drains your minutes quite fast.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it turns out GrandCentral connects you with anyone in your address book on their dime. It&#8217;s similar to the function on Google Maps when you find the business you want to contact, and they have the &#8220;call&#8221; button which prompts you for your phone number and connects you directly to them.<\/p>\n<p>So you just need to create an entry in your GrandCentral address book and then click call. What happens then is they&#8217;ll call you directly on your line and since you don&#8217;t pay for incoming calls, it&#8217;s a free call to you. Once they confirmed that there&#8217;s someone on your side, they&#8217;ll connect you to the other party. Simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s neat about this is that you can basically make any phone calls within the United States for FREE! I&#8217;m not sure about Canada, but it&#8217;d be sweet if you can make calls to Canada for free too.<\/p>\n<p>These past few days I&#8217;ve been playing with GrandCentral a bit since I&#8217;ve set it up for my parents and there are some very neat things. One really neat thing is the ability to record a conversation. Even if you selected to not record initially, you can hit &#8220;4&#8221; in the middle of the conversation and it&#8217;ll begin to record immediately. However, they appear to have only enabled that for calls you receive and not calls you&#8217;ve initiated from their web UI.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting thing is RingShare, where you can customize the ring people hear when calling you. By default, it&#8217;s set to the American ring, but you also have the British ring and the Japanese ring. You can also go through the gallery and choose from a small selection of chimes and even people talking.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I really want is the option to turn off the screening process completely. Even with Call Screening off, it still prompts me to push 1 to start chatting. I can definitely see it as a useful feature, but to my parents, it just complicates the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So awhile back, I hit onto this page while searching for VoIP info: Zero Cost Voip Calls. The blog really only has 2 entries: Viatalk down, GrandCentral is UP!! Zero Cost Voip Calls This gave me an idea on how to make free outgoing calls with my current setup: VoiceStick Replacement &#8211; IPKall with GrandCentral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/free-outgoing-calls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Outgoing Calls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[168,24,23,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}