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Most of the details about just dial service has been covered by John.SW and I thought I just provide a little bit information about the service. For those who experience occasional difficulties, it may be worth trying an alternative service, http://www.0870-dial.co.uk and http://www.0871-dial.co.uk (NOTE: 0871 number is "named" as national rate but is actually 10p/min at all time. Different from 0870 numbers, it is also rather expensive to call 0871 from mobiles).

The way JustDial works is via the telecom interconnection agreement. When you dial their 0870 number, you pay your telephone company for a national call. Your phone company then pass a portion of the charges back to the 0870 service provider.

The upsite is of course extremely cheap or FREE (if you have appropriate free minutes on your mobile phone plan). Also, your are billed per second as compared to phonecards / prepaid services that bill per minute. It will no go further as it has been described by other Ciao members.

The downsite is that you have to pay from first second which you do not normally do if your call doesn't get through.

From their website. 0870-dial provide service to the following destinations : Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Sao Paulo, Canada, Chile, China Beijing, China Shanghai, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece Athens, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan Osaka, Japan Tokyo, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zeland, Norway, Portugal, Russia Moscow, Russia St Petersburg, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK geographic, USA, Vatican, NEW - Malaysia (603, 604 and 607)

My opinion is to use both (or all) and use more the services that cause you least trouble to get through !