Vonage is introducing a new, affordable way for calling to over 100 countries from your iPhone and pad with a nifty little app called the Time to Call™ app.

Available in the Apple App Store, this free-to-download-and-install app also gives you your first 15 minutes of talk time free.

With relatives all over the world and mainly in the United Kingdom and operations in Nigeria, other parts of Africa, and in the UK, I make a lot of international calls. For me, a product like Vonage Time To Call™ would dramatically cut down on my telecommunications expenses. It would be especially useful when I am in a hotel room or on the road, where I can leverage my mobile data plan to make calls bypassing the exorbitant prices charged by mobile-telco for international calls, or for roaming.

How does it work?
Vonage Time to Call is quite easy to install and use.

I went over to the Apple App Store, downloaded and installed the Vonage Time To Call™ app. Easy.

To place a call, I initialized the app, selected the country I wanted to call, in this case, Nigeria, and hit the ‘Buy’ button. Call billing was taken care of by my iTunes account, and that was it. Real easy.

Please note: your iTunes account will be charged for a fixed amount for a voice call of up to 15 minutes to call the selected country.

The costs for Time To Call™ calls are the same to both mobiles and landlines. Moreover, the service is available everywhere.

NOTE: once your call is concluded, all unused minutes will be available to use for the next twelve months.

The Vonage Time To Call ™ app is a free download, and it allows for fifteen (15) minute calls to 100 countries, with costs ranging from $0.99 to $1.99. more than 90 additional countries can be called for at flat rates. Additionally, you do not have to be a Vonage subscriber to enjoy this app. Furthermore, since payments are handled through iTunes accounts, users do not have to worry about mobile-telco accounts, currency exchange and so forth

iPad2 Giveaway
Vonage is sponsoring an Apple iPad2 giveaway at all the sites listed below to publicize the Time To Call™ app.

Each blog has been given carte blanche to create a contest in which they give away a brand spankin’ new Apple iPad2, complete with 32GB and Wi-Fi. A $15.00 credit for voice calls is also included in the giveaway.

AbsolutelyWindows has been invited to participate in this promotion which includes the giveaway of an iPad 2 by each site in the giveaway. We are honored.

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For the rest of this month, you can enter all of the contests on the blogs below. However, you can only win once.

A detailed post, and more information can be found here.

Please Note

• All amounts are in US dollars
• You can ONLY win on all site once.

I will be giving a copy of the book, Social Media Judo, starring yours truly to three randomly-selected people who email me at john.obeto@absolutevista.com.

Should the winner prefer, a Kindle version of the book will be substituted once that becomes available.

This free offer ends on September 30, 2011 at midnight Mountain Time.