Free
PC To Phone Calling
- How It Works
Who Pays For Your Free Pc To
Phone Calls?
Free pc to phone calling in the sense that you
don't have to pay anything for making pc to phone calls is not viable
economically. No VoIP provider could provide you such a
service indefinitely, though he may give you some free
introductory minutes when you sign up. But he can't continue with it
long unless he wants to go broke.
This is because when you make a call
from your pc to some landline or mobile phone, your call travels over
the internet but it has to connect with a landline or a mobile company
for completion or termination of the call.
For this service, the VoIP provider has to pay that phone/mobile
company. These charges vary from landline to mobile and from country to
country. If a VoIP provider gives you free service then this money has
to come from his pocket - something which he can ill afford to bear for
a long time.
This means that there cannot
be anything like totally free pc to calling at all. At the same it is
also a fact there
are some VoIP providers like Globe7
that give you free pc to phone calling facility.
Then who pays
for such pc to phone calls?
The answer to this question is YOU. It is you that pays for this
service. Not in money but by your time.
How Free Pc To Phone Calling Works
A VoIP provider has to earn enough income to pay for business and
personal expenses from somewhere if he is not charging you for the
calls. This income comes from advertising. Advertisers pay the VoIP
provider to promote their products and services on his site.
Such promotions could be ad impressions, asking for free information or
free trial offers. For any of these promotions to succeed, the VoIP
provider needs traffic to his site. Somebody to see the ads, ask for
free information or try out a product or service. That
somebody is you.
You Make It All
Possible
The VoIP site needs you. Because by joining and visiting the site you
are providing the traffic to the VoIP site. When you complete any of
the offers you are helping the VoIP provider to earn his income because
except for CPM - cost per thousand impressions - kind of advertising,
the advertisers pay the VoIP webmaster by results of the promotion.
In return for this help, the VoIP
provider pays you in free time to
make pc to phone calls. So it is actually you that is making the
free pc to phone calling
service possible.
How Much Free
Time Can You Earn?
Your earning in free minutes depends upon your involvement in
completing the third party offers and the time you spend for them.
Offers to ask for free information
or free downloads pay comparatively
less than free trial offers because the advertisers feel that only when
a large number of surfers ask for free information or download a
software, there is some likelihood of converting a few of them into
paying customers.
On the other hand the free trials usually pay more - sometimes as much
as $5 - in free talk time because most such offers require you to use
your credit card. Of course you are not charged during the trial period
but it is upon you to cancel the offer before the trial period ends
otherwise your cc could be charged for the next month according the
terms of the offer. (Always read the terms of service when going for
such offers.)
Naturally the advertisers pay more for such a lead which they consider
as highly motivated and more likely to convert into a sale.
The
bottom line: No, free pc to phone calling is not
free as such but it comes very much near to that as you don't have to
pay any money for them. So why not earn some free minutes for the calls
you have always wanted to make?
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