We have seen many services like Jajah, Freedom phone, etc., that offered FREE international calling.
Talkster is the new kid on the free international calls market and looks very promising. You can call your friends or family in 30+ international destinations for FREE with Talkster. 
How it works
You can call your friends from your computer, cell phone browser or via SMS.
- Enter your name, phone number, your friends name & phone number at Talkster.com
- You will get a local phone number and your friend will get a local number in his country. You can save this for the friend in your phone book and use it anytime.
- Call your local Talkster number and when your friend answers, ask him to hang up and call his local Talkster number. But, you don’t hang up. he should have gotten his local Talkster number in his Caller ID or via SMS.
- When he calls his local number, you will both be connected and you can talk free as much as you want
The only difference with doing this via SMS is you will send an SMS to a Talkster number with this information and you will both receive SMS with your local numbers to call.
Unlimited Talk Time
Previous free international phone services I have seen had some sort of time restrictions but Talkster doesn’t seem to have any. You don’t need a credit card or even need to register for an account!
Group Call
I like this feature a lot. You can even add up to 5 friends for a group call and you can reach the whole group with one single phone number.
What’s the Catch
Well, to be in business Talkster needs to make money through this. And they do that by asking you to listen to short advertisements (10 secs or less) with offers or coupons to products/services, etc.
Considering you can make free long distance and international calls that could save you tons of money, listening to a brief ad shouldn’t be that big of a deal.
Alternatives?
If you need to talk to someone from another country quite often, you could probably ship them a MagicJack with a local number as yours and you can just talk all the time. if you haven’t heard of MagicJack and how you can have a phone service for $20/year, you can check out my MagicJack Review.
What do you think of this service? Would you be trying it out to call a friend you haven’t spoken in a while?
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18. November 2008 at 3:45 pm
Talkster seems to be a good way to save money on international calling, although there are ads that you have to listen to, it’s definitely worth the money you save.
18. November 2008 at 10:06 pm
I can put up with 10 seconds of ads for free international calls!
19. November 2008 at 4:38 am
Nice find, they seem to be providing a low cost service for what they are offering.
21. November 2008 at 9:02 am
This sounds like a good service they are offering and at a great price, free! I think I could handle the less than 10 second ads especially if I’m making a long distance all. I’ll just think of all the money I’m saving while I’m listening to the ad
21. November 2008 at 12:44 pm
Sounds like a great idea but I still think I will try MagicJack once my skype subscription expires.
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22. November 2008 at 6:08 am
listen to 10 secs or less advertisements is not a big deal if can save my money to call my brother in other country.
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22. November 2008 at 7:04 pm
This will come in handy now that I have landed my first international client
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24. November 2008 at 6:31 am
Dang, Pakistan is not on the list of 30 countries. Will it still work if I want to call Canada which is on the list? or do both countries need to be in the list?
25. November 2008 at 8:35 pm
Thanks for the info on talkster. I sometimes make out of the country calls to Iran and other nations so it is nice to have this. Thanks for showing me this!
29. November 2008 at 10:22 am
The ads will not matter at all if they provide a long distance free call. Thanks for info. Long live talkster
and all time be it free 
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4. December 2008 at 3:00 am
Thats cool! Few seconds of listening to some advertisement and talking for hours for free.
6. February 2009 at 4:56 am
listening to 10s of ads is not a big deal for me, especially during these days where everyone is keeping their belts tight. thanks for sharing Ill definitely try this one.
19. February 2009 at 6:07 pm
It’s a good idea to use both Talkster and MagicJack together. This could really be convenient and free. I’m still looking for the day when phone calling is FREE just like internet traffic.