Free PC to Phone Calls with AdCalls

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Free PC to Phone Calls with AdCalls

by Jason Clarke Sep 7th 2005

There are a number of different PC to PC voice-calling options available these days, including AdCalls

Skype and the upstart Google Talk. While Google Talk does not at this time support calling to a regular telephone, Skype allows you to do so, for a small fee. But if you're looking for a way to make completely free PC to telephone calls anywhere in the US, including long-distance calls, check out AdCalls. AdCalls is a small application that you download to your local computer. When you use it to make a call, an ad is displayed, and it is this ad that pays for your call.

Similar business models have been tried in the past, without much success. Let's hope this one lasts - it's great to have a free calling alternative.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Storm said 2:52PM on 9-07-2005

Does it come with spywares as well? Just seems dodgy when it give u free calls with just ads.

hkid said 3:28PM on 9-07-2005

Anyone brave enough to do this?
Im doing a clean windows restart and im trying to keep weirdo installs to a minimum. (Good luck to me, reading this site.)

Ricky said 3:28PM on 9-07-2005

sorry, it really sucks

Whisky said 3:48PM on 9-07-2005

Ricky

Care to elaborate?

Ricky said 3:56PM on 9-07-2005

crappy interface, never been able to make a successful call

weinong said 5:26PM on 9-07-2005

I made a successful call to my home easily, and the quality was OK.

SPeedY_B said 6:42PM on 9-07-2005

I've been told to check the terms and conditions. Apparently you give permission for every number you dial to be used by advertisers.

lost.sync said 7:02PM on 9-07-2005

yah, this was on digg.com a few days ago and the terms say that any number you dial is basically put on a call list. speculatively, a telemarketer approach to getting around the do not call list.

Gil Creque said 8:05PM on 9-07-2005

This software sucks. I should of read the comments before I tried it out. I haven't made a successful call yet and I just got my friends cell phone numbers on a marketing. I hope they don't find out it was because of me. =)

Dennin Lucherini said 7:08AM on 9-09-2005

This is not a real AdCalls. You need to do a activation email, and tons of other stuff. Got to the offcial website, and get the official version

mike said 4:31PM on 9-10-2005

hello thsanks good byr

Rob said 5:00PM on 9-12-2005

I've been using this service for a year and it's fine. All one has to do is download and provide your demographics. For most people it's painless, but i guess if you're looking for something negative to say about a product, I guess you'll make up things. By the way, none of my friends have been called for any advertising or solicitations. Maybe in the future AdCalls might decide to contact those persons to see if they'd like to join the service, if not AdCalls will not hassle them like other solicitors, since it's not their job to do so.

jfjb said 5:26PM on 9-12-2005

Tried it, trashed it......
When it actually worked, the sound was awful, the call lasted 5 seconds.
Piece of s***t if I may say so, buzzword and marketing put together without a glass of Scotch, and there you have it.
Sorry, it ain't good enough, hum, specially when their site appears to be ofline lots of time.

faridoon said 12:53AM on 9-28-2005

i would like to call US and Canada by the help of Internet Dailer

ken said 12:41PM on 9-29-2005

With or without spyware, if my info is being sold to someone to be used in ways I'm not aware of, or to get calls and junk emails, I sure don't want to have any part of it. I hope this company goes out of business SOON!!! We have enough crap going around the internet deceiving people. Now we'll this junk that capture people's phone number and email so we can get more stuff we don't want. Except this time, they use some scheme to make you want to give your info-free damn calls!!

ken said 12:44PM on 9-29-2005

and your question??? hm... next pls...

have said 4:17AM on 10-04-2005

thxxxxxxxxx

consumer67 said 1:33PM on 10-08-2005

I've been using this AdCall service since last 2 months and there was no problems...every call last for 10 minutes and in a day you can call upto 6 calls..so 60 minutes of long distance calling in total....or 6 calls per day at maximum of 10 minutes...sometimes you may have some problems but that may be because of the speed of Internet or how many persons are using the service at the same time...but over all it is good and none of my contacts has recieved any call from any telemarketers...

Body Piercing said 6:55AM on 10-12-2005

Free cheese only in mousetrap :)

ahmed said 4:15PM on 10-22-2005

I like your free phone calls

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