Free Phone Line

Free phone line is a free VoIP phone call service offered by a Canadian carrier. It's a media-based soft-phone application that allows you to register a free Canadian phone number and make/receive calls across the country. The company belongs to a Canadian CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) called Fibernetics Corporation (more about Fibernetics below).

Basically the system is a desktop based application which you can run on windows or Mac computers. It has some these free features:

* Free Phone Number - available in most cities across Canada

* Free Enhanced Voice-mail

* Caller-ID

* Call Forward and Follow-Me Service

* 911 emergency call service

Currently available cities...

You can get a free number from freephoneline.ca in the following cities:

Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver etc...to see the rest list of available cities visit freephoneline.ca/phoneNumber [opens in new window]

Free Phone Line Requirements

It is easy to use and install FPL, following are all what you need:

Internet access - high speed/broadband

PC / iMac / Laptop

Headset/Mic

Then download FPL's soft-phone from its site which looks like this...

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New

How It Works - Steps to follow:

1. Register new FPL account by visiting their signup on the main home page

2. Activate your FPL account by clicking on the link sent to your email by FPL.

3. Choose a phone number in your desired Canadian local area...

Example of Top free calling cities in Canada:

Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Montreal, Laval, Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Ottawa-Gatineau, Quebec, Lévis, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Burlington, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, St. Catharines-Niagara, Niagara Falls, Welland, Halifax, Oshawa, Whitby, Clarington, Victoria, Saskatoon, Regina, Windsor, Tecumseh, LaSalle, Lakeshore, Sherbrooke, St. John's , Barrie etc...

For complete list of free calling cities check freephoneline.ca/cityListing [opens in new window]

4. Install the software

5. Follow the on screen desktop app settling to go through:

911 INFORMATION

FOLLOW ME

VOICE-MAIL

SIP SETTING

You will need a land-line or cell phone if you want to forward incoming calls to your home or mobile phone. To do this login and enter your number on the follow me setting page, it looks like this...

(BYOD) Bring Your Own Device

One of the great advantages of FPL is that it allows you to configure the service with your own device. Though the company charges about $50 one time fee. By BYOD it means you can use an ATA or VoIP device such as Cisco SPA122, Grandstream's HT814, Lynskys, Obihai' OBi302, Sipura, etc..

More about the Fibernetics Corp...

As I said above the Fibernetics corporation is a telecommunications service provider based in Cambridge, Ontario. It is behind FPL, Fongo and also supports and partners with the following group of companies...

* Bud Phone

* Bud Light Phone

* Kokanee Phone

* Dell Voice

* Worldline.ca and

* Fongo

Contact Information:

Address: 605 Boxwood Dr, Cambridge, ON N3E 1A5

Phone: 519) 489-6700

Website: www.fibernetics.ca

Update: In Feb, 2012 the corporation partnered with Dell Canada and launched a service called Dell Voice and Fongo Mobile Apps. Hence FPL is now powered by Fongo.

Fongo is a mVoIP (mobile VoIP) application that you can use for local and long distance calls. It works on smart phones iPhone and Android. BlackBerry coming soon. Works anywhere in the world where Wi-Fi and Cellular data is available. Similarly to FreePhoneLine, Fongo also gives you free real phone number.

Top Features

- Free Voice-Mail

- Free Caller-ID

- Free Call Waiting

- Free Call Forward

Main benefits of Fongo

- Free unlimited incoming calls

- Free local and long distance calls in Canada

- Free Fongo to Fongo calls (meaning both parties need to install the app)

As of January 9, 2013 Dell Canada has ceased it's so called Dell Voice service (dellvoice.ca not accessible anymore). Now it is simply called Fongo. To read the company' news/press release visit www.freephoneline.ca/companyNews

We can say free phone line is today's Dialpad Inc. but with much more features. It gives you free Canadian phone number and voice-mail. Visit free VoIP phone service page to learn why some firms provide free VoIP calls.