Home Phone to Cellphone Long Distance Charges?

Question

I live in Canda and my friend lives in The United States, and we use to call eachother on our cellphones a lot, but his bill was $500, so we stopped that.

He decided that he would use his home phone to call me, and we both know that obviously it's going to charge him for calling long distance.

I don't have a home phone that I can use to receive calls on, so I told him to call my cellphone. If he uses his home phone to call my cellphone will that cost ME actual money? Or will it just use my minutes?

Answer 1

get one for you and one for him. unlimited calling all for 19.99 a year!!!!! make sure he buys them and ships one to you himself since magicjack can't ship to canada just yet for custom reasons...but he can certainly mail it to you. then you two can talk all you want!!!!! no joke...its the product of the year:)

Answer 2

Yes, you are correct xxomegan.

Free at night, and only normal incoming minutes charged during daytime.

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If you have UnLimited Nights, and assuming that includes Unlimited Incoming calls, then you should not be charged anything extra to receive any calls after 6-PM....

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Yak only costs a flat 5 cent/min calling in USA/Canada.  No other charges.... that I know of.

To use Yak, you don't have to do anything but dial 1010-925 + phone number to call ... as long as they service your area.

There is no contracts, no sign-up, nothing to do but dial the number.... no sales people to talk to either.

Yak is a "Dial-Around" long distance alternative phone service.  They have a deal with the local TelCos.  So all billing goes through your local telco only.  It is automatic just by dialling 1010-925.

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It will not cost you any long distance fees to receive his calls on your cell.  If your cell plan offers "unlimited" or free incoming calls, then it cost you nothing, extra.

But, depending on your cell plan, if you are paying for all incoming calls, then it will only cost you normal incoming call fee.

Tell your friend about YAK.  

USA: http://www.yakamerica.com/

Canada: http://www.yak.com/index.aspx?id=2&lg=en

With YAK, all calls in USA/Canada are only 5 cents/min.

Nothing to sign-up for. Nothing to install.  No contracts, no fees.... no catch.

Just dial:

1010-925  then  your long distanc phone number.

e.g.  1010-925  then  1-x*x-x*x-xxxx

The 5 cent/min charges show up on his regular phone bill.

It's that simple.  Nothing to do.... just dial it.

(calls must be made from his regular home phone, of course)

Answer 3

It will just use minutes.

Answer 4

i dont think the magic jack is offering service in canada, that would have been a good option for both of you... but the one of you in the US can use it to call you on your CAN cell phone after your night time minutes start...

you can both use a voice chat program, like yahoo messanger, skype, or any of the others to talk for free with eachother.. just need a microphone and some speakers (but headphones are better, less feedback from the mic)