How to Make Free Phone Calls to Land Lines Over the Internet

1. Visit iCall.com. This is a fairly new online phone calling service that allows you to call people from the comfort of your laptop for free using VoIP technology. There are limitations, the biggest one being that you can only talk for 3 minutes for free.
2. Download the 'iCall for the Desktop' program to your computer. Once it is downloaded, you will be able to sign up for a free iCall account.
3. Plug headphones into your computer. These headphones must be the type that customer service representatives wear, with both earphones and a microphone that can be positioned in front of your mouth (see 'Resources' below for an example).
4. Click the 'Dial' tab on your iCall dashboard. Type in the phone number that you want to call using the black numerical keypad (be sure to type 1 before the number for U.S. calls) and then click 'Place Call.' You will hear the Internet VoIP phone dialing.
5. Receive calls for free by giving your friends and family an iCall local access number (you will be given a list to choose from at sign up) and your extension. When your friends and family members call the access number, they will be prompted to enter your extension, and the call will come through to your computer as long as you have the iCall program up and running with a working Internet connection.