Making voice calls over the internet/WAP

[Guest mattscholey]

Hi,

I've just ordered my O2 Online PAYG Talkalot SIM card, which gives me 300 free WAP minutes every month, but no free voice minutes (something I'll miss after a month with a contract). The WAP minutes include connecting to the internet.

Is there any way I can use the free WAP minutes to make voice calls, probably by some sort of service on the net which allows you to make phone calls?

I think it's a long shot, but if there is such a service it would be great. I'm sure it's technically possible with a Smartphone, so if anyone has the money/resources you could make quite a lot of money setting up such a service, as I'm sure theres a huge market for people with a smartphone wanting 300 free minutes a month on Pay as you go.

EDIT: After a bit of research

I've discovered that there are a few services available allowing you to make voice calls over the internet. I read this article at http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectI...808ECB89500E0E0 which said the technical name for it was Voice over IP. I couldn't find any such services, but I'll keep looking.

Any idea if these will work on a Smartphone?

Matt

[Guest Lordsmiff]

VoIP is more of a technology rather than a service - if you've ever used MSN Messenger to talk to someone, then you've used an example of it (though MSN probably doesn't use the more common protocols associated with it :) )

To use it, both you and the other person would need a client - I've heard of it being used to call a landline but that would need a third party company and you'd end up paying for it that way.

So to use your smartphone, you'd have to find someone who's written a client for it so I would suggest googling for internet phone or something similar - I think it's a longshot that someone would write a client for a phone but you never know ;)

T.

[Guest mattscholey]

I assume it would be cheaper to call a landline using a third party VoIP service than using O2's rates (40p a minute to non-O2 mobiles).

I'll so a google search to try and find someone who might do it for the smartphone.

Matt

[Guest beersoft]

You can do it, it will cost a fortune and gprs isn't fast enough for fulll duplex voip

you would need something like this http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/ which does voip

and

http://www.swyx.com to talk to a real phone and loads of other stuff as well

if you can do it, sell it, its worth a fortune

later

owen

having flashbacks to the IPconvergance confrence i went to last week