My daughter in Melbourne Australia is now calling friends in the US
over fixed lines (bell company unknown but mostly in New Mexico).  I
know that the costs to us are only local connection fees, but want to
make sure that international charges are not being incurred by the
recipients of her calls.  FOr example, sometimes the costs of
international mobile calls are charged to both parties.   CAN anyone
help me on this?

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Request for Question Clarification by funkywizard-ga on 04 Nov 2002 15:50 PST

if this below comment was a sufficient answer, please let me know and
i will post it as such. if you need specific information, it would
help to know what internet to phone product your daughter was using,
at which point i could probably give you a specific answer.

If your daughter is using one of the common net 2 phone products (see
this answer for a list [
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=91086 ] ),
there is likely no hidden charges occuring to any party. These
particular services pride themselves on being able to call any phone
in the united states from any computer in the world for the same low
fee (usually less than 4 cents a minute). This is due to a quirk in
internet access pricing. No matter where in the world your internet
data is headed, the costs are the same for the end user, thus you can
save money on long distance by sending your voice thousands of miles
to the us through the internet, where it is then sent over normal
phone lines for a much lower charge than would be the case for a
typical phone call of this nature.