Lots of how's and other questions...

Q1: What is FreeRinger?
FreeRinger is a flash application which allows you to make FREE calls to telephone numbers (to more than 30 countries throughout the world) right from your web browser without any software installation. FreeRinger is a joint, ad-supported service by GTalk2VoIP TEAM and Talkster International.
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Q2: How much does it cost to call from FreeRinger?
FreeRinger is ABSOLUTELY FREE for you. Recipients of your call may pay their phone companies for the local call, but only if it is not included in their plan or bundled minutes. FreeRinger never advertises to call to premium phone numbers.
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Q3: Do I need to install FreeRinger?
In the simplest terms, you can make calls from the browser — nothing to download or install.
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Q4: Which countries can I call for FREE?
You can call to more than 30 countries. Talkster is adding new countries all the time. If you want some country to be added to the list, you can request it here.
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Q5: Can I call mobile numbers for FREE?
Yes. Calls to mobile numbers are ABSOLUTELY FREE.
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Q6: How do I register?
Registration and preparations instructions:

1. Sign-up to the service: click on Register, fill out the form and click Register button again. Your e-mail address will be used as login identifier to the service, so please provide a working address.

2. Check your mail box to find welcome message from our service which contains activation link. Click on the link to activate your newly registered account.

3. Turn back to the application, sign-in to the service using your newly create account (e-mail address and password).

4. Once connected, you will see a dial-pad and your Talkster roster (list of contacts) right to it. Upon first connection there will be only one contact Echo Test Call, which is helpful to test your audio subsystem and network capabilities.

5. Click on Echo Test Call, after you confirm usage of your microphone, you will be connected to a voice prompt guiding you through echo test service. Basically, what you say will be turned back to you, so you could hear yourself. This will let you learn the voice quality and two-way delay. Adjust your microphone and speaker volume if required.
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Q7: How do I make calls?
Making calls:

1. Enter your friend's phone number in international format: country code followed by area code followed by local number. Examples: 16502345678 is for USA/California, 442012345678 is for UK/London.

2. Press Call button. If this phone number is not yet listed on your roster, a subscription process will be initiated and new contact created.

3. Upon success a new Talkster number will be allocated for your friend to reach you back on the web. A phone call will be placed to your friend's phone number and you will hear a voice prompt informing you on call progress.

4. Once connected, you will have 10 seconds to tell your friend to call you right back to their Talkster number, while you are staying on hold and waiting. Your friend will learn their Talkster number from: a) SMS message sent during subscription, b) CallerID displayed to them, c) you can tell them their Talkster number.

5. After your friend calls you back, the system will connect you both again and you may talk as much as you want.

6. Press Hangup button at any time to terminate your call.

7. Click on a contact and press Call to initiate another call to same number.

8. Double-click on a contact to edit contact details or to view associated Talkster number.
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Q8: How do I receive calls from regular phones?
You can receive calls from regular phone numbers right to your web browser, when your friends (you see their phone numbers in your speed dial list) dial their Talkster numbers for you. You don't have to do anything else, just accept incoming call and talk to your friend as long as you want.
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Q9: How do I receive calls from internet (SIP) phones?
You can receive calls from internet (SIP) phones right to your web browser. Just ask your friends to call you over SIP to: username_at_domain.com@freeringer.biz, where {{username}} is your email user name and {{domain.com}} is your email's domain address.
For example, if you have registered with joe@ibm.com email address, then SIP phone user may reach you by calling the following SIP URI: joe_at_ibm.com@freeringer.biz. More complicated example: user, who has registered with joe.random@mail.yahoo.com can be called to on joe.random_at_mail.yahoo.com@freeringer.biz.
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Q10: Why do you ask for my personal data on registration?
FreeRinger is ad-supported service. To target the ads we need to know who our users are for a better match. I.e. if you are a first year college student it's hardly possible that you would like to watch ads of new household products (detergents, vacuum cleaners, etc). So, please be accurate with the data you provide during registration.
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Q11: How can I embed FreeRinger into my website?
You can embed FreeRinger application into any of your web pages using one of the following HTML codes:

1. Embedding as an IFRAME:

<IFRAME SRC="http://freeringer.biz/open.html" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=400> </IFRAME>

<EMBED SRC="http://freeringer.biz/ringer.swf" HEIGHT="400" WIDTH="300">

Q12: How can I initiate calls right from the browser address bar?
You can initiate calls by giving phone number right in the browser address bar. Just open FreeRinger like this:

http://freeringer.biz?callto=1-800-GOOG-411

Q13: Where is a business? How do you make money?
We love giving people the chance to call whomever they want for free and we want it to stay that way forever! So, after your call begins, you may hear a brief 10-second voice advertisement and see in the application window some entertaining and even interactive flash ads. We want to provide valuable offers that are of interest to you, so our advertisers are screened with that in mind.
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Q14: Are you on revenue sharing with telephone companies?
No! We don't receive a cent from telcos. All our revenue comes from interactive flash ads. You also can advertise on FreeRinger, place your ad request here.
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