The Localphone Blog

Now Localphone customers can click to call

We’ve launched a brand new service called Dial Online which lets you make an international call between two phones by clicking a button on our site.

All you have to do is tell us the number you want to call from and the number you want to call, then click “Make the call”. We’ll call you – Your friend’s phone will then ring and when he or she answers you’ll be connected.

The call will be made at our low-rates and you’ll pay for both parts of the call. For example, if you ring a US mobile from a mobile in India you’ll be charged 2.4¢ per minute. This is because you pay our US rate 0.9¢ plus our India rate 1.5¢ (based on our current rates).

Our Dial Online service is especially useful if you don’t live in one of the 40+ countries where we have local access numbers – you can now make a cheap call using this method instead.

To start making cheap calls at the click of a button just log in and go to the Dial Online tab. We hope you like this new addition to your Localphone services!

New users can sign up here.

We’re very excited to announce the availability of our most popular products for users living in or travelling to South Africa, with the addition of access numbers in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.

With Direct Dial we’ll give you a different South African landline number to call for each of your contacts. When you dial these local numbers you’ll be connected straight through—no need for account numbers or PINs.

With our Virtual Calling Card you can call one South African number to manage your Localphone account and to dial any number in the world.

You can now also purchase Incoming Numbers in South Africa in any of the four cities. These appear as normal landline numbers but can be forwarded to your landline or mobile anywhere in the world at our great rates, or for free to a Localphone VoIP account.

Existing users can get South African access numbers by clicking the “change” link next to “Your Location” near the top of the Localphone Direct Dial page. New users should select South Africa as “Your Country” when signing up for their free test call.

We’re very pleased we can now offer these great products to users in South Africa, and to those travelling to South Africa for the upcoming World Cup. Don’t forget to tell your friends and family and you can call and SMS for free.

To help commemorate Memorial Day we’re giving completely free calls to landlines and mobiles in the United States for the entire weekend!

As of 9:30am GMT this morning and lasting until 12:00 GMT (noon) on Monday 31st May you can talk to the US for as long as you want, to as many people as you want, and we won’t charge you a cent!

New and existing customers can make free calls from your landline or mobile using Direct Dial or Calling Card, or from your PC, iPhone, or other VoIP-enabled device with Localphone VoIP.

You can also buy a number in any of our 45 Incoming Number countries and forward calls to your landline or mobile in the US for free throughout the weekend!

Don’t forget to tell your friends and family to sign up for an account of their own, and if they keep using the service after the weekend you can keep calling for free!

For full details, please see our Cheap Calls to USA page.