Thanks for any comments or help you care to offer.
I am trying to find an inexpensive way to use wifi to make phone calls to US numbers.
I hear one can purchase an Amazon Fire tablet with Alexa calling and make phone calls. Are these calls made via wifi for free?
Does one have to pay for an Alexa Calling subscription to make this work? Or is Alexa Calling a free or cheap app with one-time purchase / download?
Background
I tried buying a cheap TracFone smartphone with pay-as-you-go service. Making calls using minutes works fine. But I wanted to be even more frugal.
So I got an account with Google Voice. Then I downloaded the apps Hangouts and Hangouts Dialer to the TracFone smartphone.
This worked for a couple of calls.
Turns out TracFone hates free wifi calling. So it blocked my use of Hangouts Dialer and routed all outgoing calls through it's own dialer and charged me minutes.
(Sometimes the reduction of minutes didn't show up on my account status for a few hours, fyi.)
So the TracFone / Hangouts experiment was an epic fail.
Now I'm looking for other ways to make free calls using wifi.
If you know about Alexa calling and/or Amazon Fire tablet and wifi calling or any other way to make free phone calls via wifi to US numbers, I would be very appreciative of any info you care to share.
btw - My landlady allows me use her wifi connection as an included utility. But I can't attach a Voip phone to it because she already has a work-dedicated Voip line attached. So no Magic Jack, Vonage, etc.
Many thanks!