Free Cell Planet pushes on China VoIP market

You can avoid paying international phone call charges – at least to half the world.

That’s the idea behind the company Free Cell Planet. The new calling service that it will feature plans to offer more than 40 countries available to customers to call for free.

Free Call Planet utilizes VOIP technology to allow calls to be made from any phone to any phone – that includes landline and Internet. It is similar to the existing VOIP software like that used by Skype.

Because the company is focusing largely on the China market, the name Call China for Free was originally kicked around. Executives felt that the name Free Call Planet more incorporated what the company actually wants to accomplish.

The service is relatively easy to use. The customer dials a domestic phone number and is connected to Free Call Planet’s gateway network located in Iowa. The customer then dials the international number.

Customers will be charged the regular long distance rates for the call to Iowa and it is possible that they could also be charged for the international call as well. Some cell phone customers complain that when they used the green call button on their phones to dial the international number, their phone company connected them for the call through the cell line and not VOIP, resulting in extreme charges.

Cell phone companies involved have yet to respond.