Talkster gives totally free calls to 33 countries
I got a note from buddy James Wanless, Talkster founder and COO yesterday regarding Talkster’s free calling offer.
Totally free calls to 33 countries, yes totally free, nothing beats that in my opinion.
This is a huge advance from Talkster and James has given me a sneak preview of huge news coming on Monday for Skype users
More about that on Monday
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This looks very similar to Rebtel. Give people local numbers in two countries and tie the call together with VoIP.
I checked Talkster and it’s as complicated as Rebtel. My Peruvian friends would never understand this model where they have to hang up and I stay on line until they call in again.
Much better are the free local numbers I get from Gizmocall, Tpad and Sipbroker. The Peruvians get a real phone number in Lima for me. Since it’s a VoIP number it always rings wherever I am, e. g. by forwarding it for free to my Maxroam cell phone number.
Of course I don’t have to pay for my local numbers, which these three companies can provide in dozens of countries. Gizmocall had plans to sponsor them by advertising, but that was one year ago.
I hope Talkster’s Monday news is something really exiting. Free local numbers sponsored by advertising could be it. To save them money, my leg of the call could be a SIP address, the way that Grandcentral and the three mentioned companies sometimes do it.
OK. The Monday news is “for Skype users”.
So hopefully my leg of the call would be my Skype address. That would be great since I forward from Skype to SIP anyway.
The most important breakthrough would be to abolish the hangup-and-call-in-again model.