How to make free international calls using viber
How to Make International Calls for Free
Calling friends and family members is usually a top priority for anyone traveling or living abroad. Whether you’re feeling homesick, would like to tell a loved one how much you’ve missed them, or need to converse with a colleague who happens to be located in a different country, calling abroad can end up getting quite pricey. Take it from someone who nearly spent the amount of money it cost to buy flight ticket calling her then-boyfriend and best friend while she was abroad.
Instead of having to deal with extremely high phone bills (and a rather unpleased father), making international calls for free or for a low rate is something everyone should know how to do. If you need a guide on how to make international calls for free but don’t really feel like rummaging the web for your answer, we’ve got the exact answers you’re looking for right here. Let us guide you through the process of international calling using your smartphone.
How to Call Abroad For Free
Nowadays, several apps including our very own Viber, are able to connect users through their desktop, mobile or tablet to their friends and family no matter their physical location. Thanks to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), a revolutionary method that takes analog audio signals and turns them into digital data that can be transmitted over the internet, international calling, which was once considered quite the luxury, has now become something every person is able to do for free.
As a cross-platform instant messaging and VoIP app, Viber enables you to call, video call and message other Viber users for free no matter where you are. How does it work, you wonder? Viber uses your 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi internet connection to enable you to call abroad for free no matter where you are. You should, however, be aware that there could be mobile data charges if you have exceeded your data plan. If your data plan is not unlimited, though, simply use a Wi-Fi connection as often as possible to avoid additional charges.
And if you’re not sure about your data plan restrictions, contact your service provider for further information.
Here’s how to use Viber to call abroad for free to make international phone calls from your iPhone or Android. Simply follow these instructions:
From the contact list:
1. Choose to view only Viber contacts
2. Select the contact you want to call
3. Click Free Call
From a one-on-one chat:
1. Open your chat with the contact you want to call
2. Click the Call button
From the calls screen:
1. Open the calls screen
2. Click the phone icon next to one of your recent calls
OR
1. Click Open Keypad
2. Enter the Viber user’s phone number in the correct format (+Country Code – Area Code – Phone number)
3.
Click the Call button
You can also make free Viber to Viber calls from your desktop either by selecting a contact from your existing contact list or by typing in a contact’s phone number through your keypad. Here’s how to get it done by desktop in case you’re busy charging your phone in the meantime:
From the contact list:
1. Open Viber
2. Open the contact list
3. Select the contact you would like to call (Only contacts with the Viber badge can be called for free)
4. Click on the Phone Icon
5. Select Free Viber Call
From the keypad:
1. Open Viber
2. Select the keypad icon
3. Type the number you would like to call
4. Select the call button
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Making International Calls Using Your Smartphone
Now that you’ve got all the instructions you need on how to call abroad for free using your phone or desktop, you should know what other options are out there for making international phone calls to your family or friends who don’t have a Viber account.
While the majority of the world’s population owns a smartphone, there still are those who don’t own one, don’t have an internet connection or don’t have a Viber account. That’s where Viber Out comes into play, helping you get in touch with your loved ones no matter their circumstances.
Viber will never complete a call to a non-Viber user without first telling you that you’re about to make a regular call and requesting permission. However, if you know you’ll be making international calls on a regular basis, purchasing Viber Out credit is your best choice. Not only will it save you money but it will also prevent your having to search for cheap international calling alternatives.
With Viber Out you’ll be able to call anyone, no matter their location or circumstances. Call at a flexible and low-rate by choosing the option that best suits your needs:
Credit plans:
30-day calling plans:
Monthly subscription plans
Now that you not only know how to call abroad for free but also how to make international calls using your smartphone, you’re all set to go on your summer vacation, resting assured that your loved ones will be up to date regarding your trip with Viber’s help.
Making International Calls - The Dos and the Don'ts
Making international calls hasn’t always been easy. Remember the times when you had to use your landline and a “cheap international calling rate number” to call abroad? Well, thanks to today’s rates on Viber’s low-cost calling service, Viber Out, those calling tricks are a thing of the past. Whether you’re abroad or need to call a landline from your mobile, Viber Out provides you with the cheapest and quickest option to do so, allowing you to contact your family and friends abroad easily. When choosing the best way to make an international call, you want to make sure you’ve taken into account all the dos and don’ts. Here are some things you should be aware of:
Dos
Enjoy Making Free Viber-To-Viber Calls
The easiest way to contact your friends and family abroad is through Viber. All Viber-to-Viber communication is absolutely free as long as your loved ones are also Viber users and you both have an internet connection.
Use Viber out for Calling Landlines and When There’s No Internet Connection
Viber Out is the best solution for when you need to call a landline, someone who doesn’t have Viber or someone who doesn’t have an internet connection. Always make sure that you preload your Viber Out account in advance with credit so that you’re always able to use your phone to call anyone, anywhere – even if you don’t have an internet connection. Call any number in the world with Viber Out’s low calling rates and choose the best calling plan for your specific needs. For example, you can choose whether you need a 30-Day Calling Plan or a Monthly Subscription Plan if you travel abroad frequently.
Find out Whether Your Mobile Service Provider Is Available Abroad
The first thing you should do before traveling abroad is to check whether your mobile service provider allows you to make international calls and whether your contract covers the amount of data and minutes you’ll need to use while you’re away.
If you know that your phone is able to work abroad, you can keep using your local SIM card as you normally would at home. If it’s not included then find out how much it will cost to use and make sure your phone is suitable for using abroad and is unlocked so you can also have the choice to use an international SIM card. This means fewer chargers and roaming rates from your service provider.
Use the Right International Dialing Codes
When making international calls to a mobile or landline, you should take into account that you need to know the international dialing code for the country you wish to call. So whether you’re abroad working, traveling or at home and need to call Ireland from the US or any other country, you will be required to use an international dialing code before dialing your requested phone number otherwise your call will not go through. It’s super easy to call internationally with Viber Out. All you need to do is use the following format: (+)(Country Code)(Area Code without the leading zero)(Phone Number).
Use Viber Desktop as Well as Your Mobile
Use Viber for Desktop to make free international calls if you are a person who spends most of their day in front of a computer or you just don’t have your phone with you at that moment. Viber for Desktop enables you to call from your computer to other Viber users’ phones or computers. You can also make Viber Out calls from your desktop, offering an easy alternative for people who spend a lot of time at their computer and don’t have to worry about looking at their phone. Give it a go!
Don’ts
Don’t Wake up the Person You’re Calling
Be aware of the time differences before you make your call since you don’t want to have to deal with a grumpy friend or coworker who you’ve just accidentally woken up! If you are calling China, take note that there is only one official time zone (CST – China Standard Time), which is 8 hours ahead of UTC. This means there’s no Daylight Saving and the time zone stays the same all year round.
Don’t Forget to Examine Your Environment and Connection Issues
When traveling abroad many people have a difficult time finding a quiet place to speak on the phone from all the buzz that’s going on around them. Background noise such as construction, traffic or an echoey audio can also affect your call so make sure you are connected to a strong internet connection. Once you’ve examined the space you’re in, where the noise is coming from and you’re still having connectivity issues, try one of these sound blocking tips.
Don’t Run out of Viber out Credit
Be aware of how much credit you have on your Viber Out account before you make a call. You don’t want an embarrassing situation where you are cut off from a business call with your team as a result of running out of credit. Viber Out is a low-cost calling service to any international destination in the world.
Don’t Dial a Different International Calling Code by Mistake
Be aware that every country has a different code and varies in cost so dialing the wrong code could cost you more than you think.
Now that you know the dos and don’ts of making international calls, you can choose which Viber Out plan suits your needs. Discover international low calling rates for any destination of your choice. Let us know which Viber Out plan you chose and who you’re planning on calling on our Twitter page.
How to call from Viber to Russia and other countries to mobile or landline phones
Updated on 10.10.2020
Viber is now installed, if not for every first, then, for sure, for every second.
Well, maybe that grandmother over there with a purse who crosses the road in the wrong place doesn't have it, but that's only because she has an old phone with buttons.
And as we all know or guess, calls using this application can be paid and free. If the person you decide to call has this program on a smartphone or computer, then if you have the Internet, you can communicate with him for free and for an unlimited time. nine0007
But if your interlocutor does not have Viber installed, then you can persistently suggest that he install (what a terrible word) it on your phone (and then, if you like it, install on your computer ).
But, if he looks at you with frightened eyes and does not quite understand what he is talking about (or does not want to understand), then you can call him on a regular phone using the Viber Out function.
We are talking, of course, about cases when it is impossible or very expensive to use regular communication. nine0007 For example, you are outside your beloved homeland, but your friend or relative is at home.
There are also cases when the owner of a phone with the installed Viber program has to call via a paid channel.
This happens when the smartphone is turned off, discharged or just thrown somewhere, and you need to contact the person urgently right this second. In this case, you can call a landline office or home phone.
Also, many people carry two mobile phones with them, and you can always call the other one if the first one is not available. nine0005
This is where the function Viber Out (Viber Out) comes to the rescue.
But, for money.
After topping up your account, you get the opportunity to call landline (landline) and mobile phones at fixed rates, which are linked, of course, to the dollar rate. American..
Now let's go through all the steps step by step, looking at the pictures for a better perception of everything written.
How to top up your Viber account (Viber Out)
In order to make paid calls from Viber, you need to have a positive balance on your account, as there are no credits here.
We will top up our account via mobile phone, which is faster and easier. Why complicate life?
So, open the menu of the Viber mobile application by clicking on the icon in the upper left corner and select Viber Out ..
This is the service that will allow us to call any phone, including the landline, without being tied to the application itself . nine0005
So far, as we can see, our account balance is zero. To fix this, select the required amount for replenishment from the three proposed options:
1$
5$
10$ (without one cent) and press the appropriate button.
At the current commercial rate, you can also see the price in national currency in order to navigate when paying.
(If your Viber is up to date and the recharge page looks different from the one shown above, then find the link 9 at the top0013 BALANCE and click on it.)
For example, let's replenish our account with a minimum amount of $0.99.
If you use iPhone , then payment goes, of course, through the proprietary application iTunes Store .
If your device runs on Android , then you can pay in two ways. By choice.
Either by simply entering the payment card details, or (second option) through your Google account, if your card is linked to it. And it can be tied if you have already bought something for Play Market or in some other way showed their card to the all-pervasive Search Engine.
In general, if Google knows your map, then payment will be very simple.
And we will go the hard way and pay with a new card.
Enter all the data required for payment and click BUY .
The whole payment process could not be shown on the screenshots (by the way, you know how to take a screenshot on a smartphone?), since the application blocked the creation of a screenshot in the process of transferring money, but there is nothing complicated there.
If everything is correct and good, then we will see how our balance from zero turned into one dollar, as in our case.
And in the menu Viber Out after the receipt of funds, a new item appeared My account , in which you can see all our calls and payments.
Since we have not had time to call anywhere yet, we can only see our recent payment:
How to unblock money on Viber Out account
They are not going anywhere, but for their further use it will be necessary to perform a number of actions.
First of all, you need to register in the personal account of this messenger, if you have not already done so.
The majority, of course, never register there, since there is no special meaning in this procedure. nine0007 But this is the only way to unlock money.
Follow the link to page to log in to your Viber account and enter the phone number and password you created during registration.
We first select the language in which it will be convenient for you to communicate by clicking on the drop-down link in the lower right corner:
see your balance and look at it again for another six months or safely spend and replenish again:
How to call with Viber abroad to a landline or mobile phone
It makes sense to call abroad (from abroad). Within the country, it is cheaper and easier to call in the usual mode on a normal phone.
Unless, you are in such a magical place that has the Internet, but no mobile connection.
Bunker, for example!
Calling with Viber Out is no different from calling a regular number from a mobile phone. nine0007 To understand how much a minute of a call to a certain country costs, you need to open the menu and go to item Prices for calls .
By default, several popular countries, according to Viber analysts, are offered. And in the search box, you can select the required country by entering its name or the first digits of your subscriber's phone number.
Calls to mobile phones are usually more expensive than to landlines. But not everywhere and not always.
If we talk specifically about calls to Russia, then their cost at the time of this writing is as follows:
A call to a mobile (cellular) phone per minute will cost $0.095
A call to a landline (landline) phone will cost $0.023
That is, ten cents and two and a half cents.
Prices in national currency at the current exchange rate are also indicated in brackets in order to better understand the tariffs.
Select the menu Calls in Viber in the top panel and click on the keyboard icon at the bottom right.
We dial the number and press the green call button. If this subscriber "has a Viber on the number", then the application will offer you a choice of how to call: free or paid through the Viber Out service. nine0007 Choose Call Viber Out and make a call!
If Viber is not installed on the number, the call will automatically go to the paid option.
In the same way, a call is made to any country.
You dial the subscriber's number in international format and press Call.
Tariffs do not depend on where you make the call from. The system will simply display prices in the currency of your country: euros, dollars, rubles, hryvnias, and so on.
After the end of the conversation, in the sub-item Viber Out My account , data on the call will appear.
Billing, as we see, is per minute, that is, any call duration, even one second, will be rounded up and counted as one minute.
In conclusion, we want to show the cost of calls to popular destinations that are valid at the time of writing the article in the Viber Out application.
Ukraine : call to mobile $0.23, landline $0.09$9 per minute
India : call to mobile and landline $0.023
USA : call to mobile and landline $0.019
England (United Kingdom) call to mobile $0.059, to landline $0.019
The full list of countries can be viewed either in the attachment as described above or on this page .
That's all we wanted to tell you today.
Yes! Don't forget to back up your messages in Viber, so as not to experience unnecessary stress when, as a result of some kind of “software failure” or your negligence, everything disappears somewhere ...
And so that Viber does not take up a lot of extra space on the phone (it has well done), do not forget to clean up unnecessary files that this application likes to hide in various hidden folders.
You can also read about how:
Change number on Viber
Transfer Weiber to another phone
How to remove advertising in Vaiber
as well as ...
Viber review - free messages and voice calls
9000 9000 Communication is an integral part man, it is not surprising that some companies have managed to make good business on this. While international phone traffic is slowly declining, traffic from messaging and voice calls on apps like Skype is growing at an incredible rate, according to researchers at TeleGeography. In 2012, international calls from Skype to Skype grew by 44% to 167 billion minutes. In addition, despite the constant decline in the use of SMS in favor of Internet messengers, according to Informa’s forecast, 9 messages will be sent in 2016..4 trillion SMS messages. According to her data, in the same year, the turnover of the instant messaging market will reach $16 billion, of which 54% will go to operators, and 46% to applications such as WhatsApp.
Thus, despite its simplicity, the messenger market is very attractive for both large companies and small startups. Viber Media has recently upgraded its instant messaging/voice calling software and is ready to compete with Skype and WhatsApp. She released the Viber messenger for the iPhone back in 2010, but the app gained real popularity only two years later, when it began to be used by 90 million people. In less than a year, Viber has already gained an audience of 200 million people, and this is an amazing result. What won the public a new application? The big advantage of Viber is cross-platform, at the moment its application is available for Android, BlackBerry, Bada, iOS, Windows Phone and even Symbian mobile operating systems. In addition, the program has recently been released for Windows and OS X. Let's see what Viber has to offer users.
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To register in Viber, as well as in WhatsApp, you must enter the phone number to which you receive an SMS with an activation code.
The program scans the phone book and determines which contacts also use Viber, so you don't have to add contacts manually. Moreover, Viber can display an alert if a person from the phone book has registered with Viber. This feature can be disabled in the settings. nine0005
Interestingly, with the help of Viber, you can turn your iPod touch player and iPad tablet into a kind of phone. The application requires a mobile number, but authorization is carried out using a confirmation code. Thus, it is not necessary that the SIM card be inserted into the device itself.
Voice calls
Viber Media focuses on free voice calls. The user can make VoIP calls from Viber to Viber over Wi-Fi and the operator's 3G network. I even received calls from Wi-Fi to EDGE in the Kyivstar network, and the voice was transmitted just fine. It doesn't always work smoothly, but it's still impressive for a free service. The quality of voice transmission when calling via Wi-Fi is beyond praise, domestic operators cannot yet provide high quality voice transmission.
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In Kyivstar, by the way, they don’t see a threat to Viber for their business, the operator’s press service vaguely answered my question:
, social networks, instant messengers, etc. we are happy to provide our subscribers with the opportunity to use any communication channels. And VOIP applications are no exception.”
An incoming call to Viber is received like a regular call, you do not need to launch the program beforehand. The call can also be accepted or rejected. nine0005
Despite the presence of a numeric keypad in the application, free calls can only be made to numbers linked to Viber. If you call any other number, it will simply go through the operator's network and will be calculated according to its tariffs.
Received and missed calls in Viber are stored in a separate log.
In general, the program copes very well with voice transmission, the presence of a developed 3G network in Ukraine would completely reveal the potential of Viber, but with EDGE speeds, our operators really have nothing to be afraid of yet.
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Messages
Instant messaging in Viber is well implemented and not much different from what WhatsApp offers. The user can select a contact, write a text message to him, insert a photo, video, a link to a map, emoticons and a sticker into it. All this works like with regular SMS.
Messages are displayed as a dialog and below them you can immediately see whether they were delivered or not.
Correspondence history, unfortunately, is not saved on the servers, so if you delete Viber, messages with it will also be lost. nine0005
The standard messaging functionality in Viber is diluted with the ability to create a group chat of up to 40 people.
Sent messages in the program sometimes do not find their addressee, and although this is unpleasant, it happens very rarely, at least in my case.
PC client
Not so long ago, Viber became available for desktop systems Windows and OS X.
For Viber Media, this is a significant event, as the company has never hidden the fact that it competes with Skype. Unlike the complex and not very pleasant interface of the latter, Viber received a pleasant appearance without unnecessary elements. nine0005
The left side panel of the program contains the main menu, which contains links to messages, contacts, call log and dialer. Below is the settings button.
Viber desktop features are different from the mobile app. The program allows you to make video calls, however, they are still in beta and work with varying degrees of success. In the mobile client, the interlocutor can still be heard, but not seen. I hope Viber Media will fix this soon. nine0005
Also, incoming calls can be transferred between the program on the PC and the application on the smartphone. This function also does not work perfectly yet, but even so it is quite possible to use it.
Desktop Viber synchronizes messages with the mobile version, so you can start chatting on your smartphone and finish it on your PC.
