Canada Gets Coast-to-Coast Local Calling
Canadian users, be happy!
We’ve been quietly making some major changes to RF.com’s back end. One important change is support for multiple Points of Presence (POP) within countries where RF.com is available. In short, a POP is the “local” number your mobile phone rings when you make a call with the RF dialer.
Since we added Canada, we learned (and a bit red-faced learned a bit too late) that Canadian cell phone carriers don’t support nation-wide local calling. This presented a problem with our service. RF.com users in Vancouver, for example, had to pay hefty tolls to their cell phone carrier to make RF.com calls through our POP in Toronto.
That just wasn’t working for many in Canada, and we promised to fix it. Unfortunately, the fix required significant and time-consuming code changes on the RF.com media server. Fortunately, those changes are now fully implemented and, among many other improvements we’ll outline in a post here soon, it is now possible for Canadian users to select one of seven local POPs (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver) to route their RF.com calls through.
It’s up to you to choose the local POP that is best for you.
If you are already registered with RF.com: Click on the RF Dialer “Settings” tab. Tap on “Phones,” and tap on your phone number to edit it. Under “Country” modify it so it uses “Canada” and in parenthesis, the city closest to your area code, i.e.: “Canada (Toronto).”
If you are signing up with RF.com for the first time: simply choose the city closest to you when selecting your country.
This will allow most Canadians to make calls through a local POP and use RF.com without enduring long distance charges.
Go nuts!
October 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am
[...] More information about the RF.com service in Canada. [...]
December 30th, 2008 at 1:05 am
hi there!
i personally thinks that rf.com it is very cool
but i have a question; if i call someone to roger wireless number
i will be still using my minutes or it will be free?
and same if i call to an skype number or msn?
before hand tahnks!
i willl wait for your answer
atte: daniel
December 30th, 2008 at 6:48 am
The calls will use your mobile minutes.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Can you call from Toronto to USA without getting charged LD. Using my Cell Minutes is OK.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Yes you can call from Toronto to the US without getting charged long distance charges. The FAQ and forum have more information.
January 24th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Great service! Thank you for providing this. Will you be adding any more POPs in Canada? For example Hamilton, Ontario area?
Thanks ……. JD
January 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I registered my iphone on Rogers Toronto and tried to make a Long Distance call…The voice mail from Rogers indicated that it was going to make a LD call. Is this how RF should act? Need to know before I go nuts and call everyone and then get a LD Bill…:)
January 27th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Tried to re-register again and I have activated RF with Toronto Rogers…When trying to call LD the message goes through the Rogers customer service which tries to make a LD call. I assumed that it would use Toronto POP and make the call.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 am
Have used RF for many month on the rogers network in Toronto. Since a couple of weeks the access number seems to be blocked by Rogers. Anyone else experienced the same problem in the Toronto area?
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Marc,
Are you still having problems?