The service Localphone is giving away free voip calls for the Chinese New Year.  The free calls will be available during the entire Chinese New Year starting on January 26.  Each day of the festival the firt 20 minutes of calls to Chinese landlines or mobiles each day will be completely free, which comes to a massive 5 hours of free talk time over the 15 days.

What to keep in mind (from Localphone):
The Chinese New Year promotion begins at 00:00 China Standard Time (GMT +8) on 26th January and ends at 23:59:59 on 9th February 2009. Any calls made to China during this period will be charged at the standard rate of 0.8p per minute and after the promotion has completed you will receive a rebate in the form of Localphone credit for the first twenty minutes of call time used each day.

This means that you will get refunded the calls later.  We don’t see why we can’t have the calls free now, but this might be a move to get people to buy credit.

Make Free Calls to China for the New Year
Just visit LocalPhone.com for more information.