Touch Santa’s bag and tell Santa what you want for Christmas.

After recording the christmas list, you can listen to the recording, record a new list, or email the recording to others.

Tell Santa is perfect for pre-readers, Santa says all instructions over the speaker and the on-screen buttons are big and easy to use.  Tell Santa uses the speakerphone, anyone can hold the phone and join in.

While Tell Santa is running, Santa says, “Ho Ho Ho” and snow falls.

Don’t be naughty and shake the phone or Santa may fall down the chimney!

Listen to a message from Santa and leave a Christmas list.

As a holiday treat for the kids, we’ve partnered with Honey, Don’t Cough to release Santa Dial, a free iPhone application.

By default, Santa Dial uses FreeConferenceCall.com’s Santa hotline, but can be customize to dial any number.

Honey, Don’t Cough is a safe natural choice for your child that actually works! Developed by a family doctor & an elementary school teacher. “Honey, Don’t Cough” children’s buckwheat honey supplement is 100% pure buckwheat honey. Clinical studies have never been able to show anything to work better. Conveniently packaged in ready-to-use liqui-paks that are predosed for children makes it an easy, no mess solution for parents and caregivers. This product is considered safe for children 1 year old and older.

For more information or to download the application, visit Santa Dial in the App Store.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this may cause.

In the light of the currently unstable regulatory environment in Pakistan and given our lack of confidence to keep the service available for an extended period of time, we have decided to suspend all our operations in Pakistan.

The PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) has decided to suspend all foreign IP telephony services using Pakistan numbers. Despite multiple discussions and escalations we have not obtained the needed confidence that the regulatory environment would evolve positively for IP telephony services.

All Pakistan numbers will therefore be disconnected within the next 3 months.

We are working to find an alternate local access number provider in Pakistan before service is interrupted.

RF.com members,

Thank you for your patience.

We have successfully completed our upgrade and the RF Dialer service is back on-line.

Try out the new interface from your desktop web browser.

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RF Dialer users,

We need to temporarily take the RF Dialer service down while we upgrade.

The RF Dialer service will be unavailable today starting at 2:30pm Pacific. We estimate the upgrade will take less than an hour. Follow our migration status on our Twitter feed.

The upgrade will introduce several new features, including a new desktop user interface.

If you encounter any problems, please report them to us.

Due to popular demand, we need more servers.

Unfortunately, we need to temporarily take the RF Dialer service down while we move servers, it’s a DNS propagation thing for you techies.

The RF Dialer service will be unavailable today starting at 2pm Pacific. We estimate the server move will take less than an hour. Follow our migration status on our Twitter feed.

Today, we announce a whopper: RF.com has expanded throughout the globe and is now available in 35 different countries.

Here’s the list of nations where you can make an RF call (through Skype, GoogleTalk, Yahoo, your own VoIP provider, an Asterisk PBX, your office phone system, etc.) over the national mobile network:

Argentina
Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
El Salvador
Estonia
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Poland
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

Stay tuned as we’ll be adding other countries soon . . . and another major new feature announcement is on tap.

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!