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A client has requested a feature on his contact-us page where browsers can call only his phone and he will be charged by some online calling service. Does anyone have any thoughts if this is possible?

Haz
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    Why not simply showing the phone number? I think most people prefer their own telephone to a call out of a browser at the PC. – Yogu May 05 '12 at 16:14
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    Call his phone *using what*? Obviously you can't make a link that when clicked causes my mobile phone to call your landline. – Jon May 05 '12 at 16:16
  • @Yogu the client wants the visitors to be able to call for free – Haz May 08 '12 at 07:49
  • @Jon call his phone using an online calling service like skype – Haz May 08 '12 at 07:50
  • I dont see why you guys downvoted this, the question is seems useful... Unfortunetly I cannot ask anymore questions – Haz May 08 '12 at 07:59

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Twilio offers a voip api that spesifically does what you need: Click to Call

Note: I am not affiliated with twilio on any level. Request of Original Poster's client would reqiure a third party api/software for sure and will be limited to the features provided with it anyhow.

Varol
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    How do you know that Twillo support the country of that client? – hakre May 05 '12 at 16:17
  • Twilio has support for nearly all countries around the world. check the documentation: http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates – Varol May 05 '12 at 16:19
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    A simple "I don't know." would have made it as well ;) – hakre May 05 '12 at 16:20
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    Actually i have used twilio for a very similar purpose and it did the job for me. Your obvious effort to turn this into a computer science discussion is nonsense. – Varol May 05 '12 at 16:23
  • this is exactly what I wanted – Haz May 05 '12 at 18:46
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There are a number of call services which will call both parties - one of those might suit. A google for "Click to call" should find someone in the relevant country.

Andiih
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If your customers have skype, you could post a link to that skype user:

<a href="skype:the_skype_name">Call the admin on skype</a>

Otherwise, you could use a flash or html5 app.

Yogu
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If skype is an option for both the client and visitor, the simple solution is <a href="callto://YourSkypeName">Call us</a> If not, use one of services, corresponding to your country, as told Andiih.

Konstantin Pereiaslov
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