My other half (waist down) is in Canada, I am in the UK, at the moment and I have been calling his mobile for 2pence per minute. I bought one of those internet phones from errr that large supermarket for £14.97 with £5 free airtime and he took one too which means that when he gets on-line I can talk to him for free. I hope this helps.

When you're both on-line you could talk through Skype providing you've got speakers & mic.
www.skype.com

Or MSN

Let's keep this Mac friendly - iChat is the dog's proverbials.

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OI I'm always friendly to those folks from north of the border.

if you dial 08442009595 then the number you need ie 001 403 *** **** t only costs 1/2 a pence per minute.

so the £30 spent on tesco phones will go a hell of a long way on this!

Hi Tirrelz,
This is the info I sent to my friends & family in England, I hope it helps.

Here are the cheap call sites

http://www.voipcheap.co.uk/en/index.html

http://www.internetcalls.com/en/index.html

http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

Internetcalls is free for 300 minutes to most landlines and about 18p or euros a min to mobiles. After the initial free trial period, you have to buy credit (around £10.00) to continue to recieve free calls. The credit will only go down if you call mobiles, or country's not on the free call list, but I'm not sure how often you will be calling outer mongolia! The free calls last for about 3 months, and then you have to buy more credit to get another 3 months. Best to use up the money to call those friends that only have cells, when your cell is running out of minutes. The calls are free at any time of day, so if you're at home during the day, it's cheaper than your landline. If you use up 300 minutes in a week the rate is about 1p a minute.
I swap between the three companies depending who and how I'm calling, and which has the best deals, as they change.
Skype is free when calling other Skype callers computer to computer, and you can use a web cam for this, but charge a penny or two for calls to landlines, and a bit more,but not by much to cells. I think internetcalls is free for computer to computer, but it doesn't do web cam, although just for voice calls, the sound quality is clearer.
Voipcheap charges a bit to some landlines, and are free to others, but it changes to who is free. At the moment calling Canada is about 1.5p a min, but it is also 1.5p to call canadian cells too.
The quality changes as well, so if there is a delay, or the sound quality is crap, I try calling again, and if no improvement I swap between sites. If you are on Skype and using the web cam, the sound quality goes down a bit, but it's good to have the picture on for the first few minutes so you can wave. The picture is a bit stilted, but you can turn off the picture if you want, and are having a bad hair day! If you click on the picture someone is sending you, it gives you the option to have the picture full screen.
The sites will talk you throught the set up, and it's dead easy, and they have FAQ's to help you learn how to use it, or if you are having any problems.

Sally

. If you are on Skype and using the web cam, the sound quality goes down a bit, but it's good to have the picture on for the first few minutes so you can wave. The picture is a bit stilted, but you can turn off the picture if you want, and are having a bad hair day! If you click on the picture someone is sending you, it gives you the option to have the picture full screen.
The sites will talk you throught the set up, and it's dead easy, and they have FAQ's to help you learn how to use it, or if you are having any problems.

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Sally, this was really kind of you, I know it won't just help me but I am very grateful - but, even with this said, anytime you wanna borra my tesco handset its yours ha ha

Not sure how good this is yet, but I just signed up with Jajah. You set the call up by the website then your phone rings and the other end rings(like the ringback service in the UK). Its free between registered phone numbers(not free from or too UK mobiles, but free to a Canada mobiles). I've only tested it once and it worked well. Means you don't need you and the other person to be online at the same time. My mothers never got Skype running when I want to call. Just one of many cheap and free options.

Internetcalls.com also has this option, to call landline to landline, using your computer to connect the two landline numbers. Your phone rings, you pick it up, and the number you are calling rings on the other end. A friend told me the way it is free is because they are both classed as incoming calls. The number you are calling does not have to be registered.
Sally

Just bought 3 sets of Skype Phones and webcams for me and the inlaws - worked out under £15 a set. They work a treat! The phone is great - it works with VOIPCheap.com(.co.uk)/FreeInternetCalls.com (they're all the same company - different domains) as well - which as mentioned above allows you to phone landlines for free (5 hours free per week). This includes the UK and Canada. The "directcall" feature - phone to phone bridging - is really cool.

Might be useful for your friends and family:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/105765
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/105572