Free Canadian DID's
QBZappy:
Very cheap, but not free to use ($25 to open an account?). Sounds interesting:
http://switch2voip.us/index.php/2012-07-04-20-11-33/international-did-s
Free USA or Canada Virtual Phone Number
You can order a FREE virtual phone number from any state in the USA or Canada and you can use it for personal or business purposes.
Price
Monthly Fee $0.00
Setup Fee $0.00
USA Outgoing Calls/Minute 0.008
USA Incoming Calls/Minute 0.01
Canada Outgoing Calls/Minute 0.0045
Canada Incoming Calls/Minute 0.0045
giqcass:
It looks to me like http://freephoneline.ca/ wins for anyone that expects a lot of calls. Higher upfront cost but cheaper in the long run.
This review was FUNNY! It would be startling to wake up to a stranger talking to you. Sounds like a software glitch so it's not a problem for someone using it on an Obi.
Quote from: hiddenbyrequest link=http://www.dslreports.com/comments/3520 date=1352892537
Good "Service is 100% free (unless you want to call outside Canada), relatively easy to use"
Bad "Major privacy breaches; strangers can port your computer and listen to you without you accepting their calls"
Overall "I would not recommend this service to anyone"
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I am providing this review based on my personal experience with FreePhoneLine.ca, which is greatly mixed.
If you're looking for a free phone line, this company truly offers it. For the most part it is user friendly, with good call quality. Some calls would get choppy now and then, but would fix themselves after a few minutes.
My biggest concern relates to privacy and is why I would not recommend them, ever.
I had left the application open to receive calls as anyone would normally do as it acts as a phone line this way. At 5:45 in the morning, I heard a voice coming from my computer next to me saying, "Hello? Is anyone there?". I immediately popped up the app to figure out what was going on, and noticed that a call had become active automatically from a stranger. This stranger was listening into my home for over 10 minutes before they said anything. It was not only the scariest thing ever that has happened to me on a computer, but it was also a complete invasion of my privacy. I immediately quit the application to end the call, and deleted it in fear of a hacker continuing to use it to access my computer through the vulnerability of the software. Do not get this application for that reason alone.
giqcass:
Still not a free DID but Voxox appears to offer Google Voice like services. Outbound calls and SMS cost but inbound is free and it will forward to multiple phones. They give you a free US DID. You can buy a Canadian DID for $19.95 USD yearly.
Koby:
Quote from: Hortoristic on February 26, 2014, 02:35:16 pm
Anybody know of any free DID's providers in Canada?
Currently my daughter can dial the SIPBROKER local PSTN in Canada then the special sequence to call my Callcentric number - but it's a lot of numbers.
If I could get a Canadian version of IPKALL or free Callcentric, it would help.
If it's a low-usage situation you might be able to use Tropo - I bookmarked an article, "One way you might not have considered to get a DID for incoming Google Voice calls" several months back, but don't know if the procedure described there still works, but Tropo does have Canadian DID's. I think that now Tropo shows a price next to each DID but as long as you qualify for a developer account you are not charged that, or at least that was the situation when I was playing around a bit with it.
EDIT: Mixed up responses to different threads. :( Fixed now.
giqcass:
This does not solve your free Canadian DID problem however I thought you might be interested in this cell phone company I just heard about. The reason I thought you might find it interesting is they offer a cool service called "Call me free". It works similar to the Sipbroker setup where they provide local access numbers. An IVR answers and it prompts you to enter the cell phone number of the person you want to call. It allows people to call your cell phone from all over the world as a local call. It runs on the T mobile network and they have pretty good rates if you live in an area where T mobile has good coverage.
www.ultra.me
Sim cards are available on Amazon for $0.01 shipped and work with most unlocked GSM phones.
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