International call provider Localphone is celebrating the Fourth of July, Independence Day, by giving away free calls to the USA for two days.  Calls to landlines and mobiles in the USA will be free from 12pm (noon) GMT 3^rd July until 12pm (noon) GMT 5^th July.  Customers can call for as long as they want, to as many numbers as they want and Localphone won’t charge them.  The offer is available to

I had known of the phonetic alphabet when I lived in the USA of course, the military, police and aviation industry used them, we all saw it on TV and film. I had never before been asked to spell anything over the phone with this system, until I moved to the UK.

Being new in the UK, it's hard to grasp right away what the regional dialing codes mean and easy to lose money out of lack of understanding, especially with rogue companies out to take advantage of ev