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Pay Per Second calling plans in India

2009-11-02T08:32:00.000-08:00

Again a massive revolution in Indian telecom industry is on its way. It was earlier Pay per minute then came Pay per call and now its time for Pay per second.

Yes, most of the telecom providers in India have launched their Pay per second plans which means you pay only for the time you talk. It began with Tata docomo, Aircel with Airtel, Idea and others soon coming in with their plans.

Now by paying a small fess (vary with provider) you will get entitled to this plan. You will be charged 1 paisa per second. So that makes 60 paise per minute. If you talk for 10 seconds you pay only 10 paisa.

I guess this is a very nice move by the telecom providers, and will soon bring another revolution in the industry. I would like others to share their reviews about this new move. Have you started using it now, will you be going for it..?

Rebtel offers free Voip calls to Pakistan

2009-11-01T04:57:00.001-08:00

This is big by the voip giant Rebtel. Making calls to Pakistan is not a costly affair now, instead its now free. Yes Rebtel is now offering free calls to Pakistan and 50 more countries. Rebtel is now offering free calls to Pakistan and free calls from Pakistan to 50 more free countries included in their list.

Rebtel is offering local access numbers (two numbers), one in Karachi and one in lahore. When you make calls to these numbers, you pay only for your local calls. The international part is made free by Rebtel. The free calling procedure has already been discussed on this blog, but let me explain it again.

If suppose, you live in Pakistan and want to call your friend in USA free. It can be vice versa, you living in USA and calling your family in Pakistan free. Firtly both of you need an activated Rebtel account. Make it first. After that you will be given a local number (say if you in USA then you get a local USA number) for your friend whose living in Pakistan. It means when you call this USA number your call will be connected to Pakistan. Wait still call is not through, now when you call your friend, ask him to dial this local Pakistan number (he will be asked to do that). You are not suppossed to cancel the call in between.

When he also dial this number, the call will get connected. So both of yo pay just the local call rates but actually the call is International. Some of the countries from where you can call Pakistan free are -:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hongkong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.

Please share your feedback about this move of Rebtel.

RingPlus comes with voip service : Call India cheap

2009-10-28T07:35:00.000-07:00

The time Ringplus.net came into market, it was a big hit as it offered free calls to India. Ringplus offered free calls to many countries and the call duration was also high. Basically Ringplus made their costs from the advertisement. After few months, this ad-based voip service then lowered the free calling minutes.

At present Ringplus offers 5-6 free minutes to India. A lot of people use Ringplus.net voip service to make calls to India, but some dont prefer it because of the call duration. Now Ringplus has started its paid service (combined with free service). With this paid service you can buy voip calling credit and can use to make calls to any country.

The best part about this new move by Ringplus is that it still offers free minutes, what it means that if you call India then your first 5.54 minutes will be free and you will be charged from next minute. So you call wont get disconnected and you enjoy free part too.

Lets talk about the calling rate which ringplus is offering to India. Ringplus is offering calls to India at 2 cents per minute. So if you talk for 8 minutes, you will be charged about 6 cents. I guess the calling rate is not the cheapest but clubbed with free minutes, the effective rate comes down.

Ringplus is access based number service, you need to call local access number then destination number. Call quality is also ok.

You can purchase call credit in denominations of $10, $20, or $30. I would suggest you to first try with $10.
Few points to be considered here are :
All sales are final. No returns. No exchanges. No refunds. All items purchased are not for resale.
VoIP minutes will expire after a one (1) year period of inactivity from the date of purchase.

So overall Ringplus offers looks good to me, and is worth trying. Please post your reviews to help others.

SoftCall.me: Cheap International calls to India

2009-10-26T08:07:00.000-07:00

If you are still paying high for making international calls, then you certainly needs change. Change to Voip or your vop provider. We have already discussed about so many voip provider which offer cheap and free international calls. Specially to India, the calling rate is now in the range of 1-2 cents/min.

Today we will talk about another voip provider softcall.me, we are not very sure but heard that this even works from UAE. So all the UAE people who are looking for working voip provider, can try Softcall.me for making calls to India.

The calling rate offered by Softcall.me to call India is 1.3 cents/minute, calling rate to other countries are also very cheap.

Softcall provides Mobile voip service, it also provider SIP support so you it from any SIP phone. SoftCall can also be used from your PC for making PC to Phone calls, as it provides PC voip application. Some features of its Softphone are :
Address Book
Call History
Credit Balance Display
Call To, Calling Destination Display
Cost Per Minute Display
Call Duration Display
Check CDRs
Speed Dial, Redial

Softcall also provides 10,000 free minutes to USA, Canada at price of just $4.99/month. For more info, Visit Softcall.me

Going for Vacation : Wowtel International Prepaid Sim Cards

2009-10-23T18:22:00.000-07:00

We have discussed a lot on making cheap international phone calls, but have not really discussed about making cheap phone calls whn you are going abroad for a vacation.

A lot of Indians go abroad for business trip, leisure, students go for higher studies. Now offcourse since you are going for few days, you wont be buying a phone connection in your destination country. Ultimately you end up having no phone connection when you are travelling abroad, not able to talk to your loved ones in your home country.

A simple option which most people choose is to get their International roaming activated, and you know the call charges in international roaming are so high that you end up spending a lot of money. (Call charges in International roaming to India are in range of Rs 50-100. More than $1.)

So what all options do you have and how can we help you save on your phone bills. A good option is to get an international prepaid sim cards. These sim cards are normal sim cards which will work in your destination country and best part is that call charges are less than half of what you pay when in International roaming.

We have already discussed about one, Matrix Sim cards (which is already very popular). Lets now talk about other such services. One such service is WowTel International Prepaid Sim cards.

Wowtel offers International Prepaid Sim cards in five countries which includes USA, UK, Belgium, Thailnd, Switzerland.

The initial cost of Sim Card is Rs 1499, and you dont even need to return the card when you get back to India. Initially you will get some free calling minutes and free sms plus wowtel to wowtel local calls are free. The local call rates and call rates to India are also very cheap. When you have used your free minutes, you can easily topup your sim to talk more.

Using Wowtel (USA sim) to call India will cost you 15 cents per minute (approx Rs8) but you know on International roaming you may need to pay more than Rs 100/min. So this clearly shows you how much you can save if you take International prepaid sim cards with you while travelling abroad.

Zenofon : New promotions and User review

2009-10-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

Zenofon came into the voip market with a bang offering free voip trial credit to test their service. Since then Zenofon has been quite active in bringing new promotions.

Thanks to Mr Hitesh for reminding us Zenofon service and informing about new zenofon offer. He also reviews Zenofon voip service.

You will be able to see the new promotions once you log in to your account area of zenofon.

Hitesh reviewed that to stay in to focus, there is a new promotion with zenofon. Call quality of Zenofon is really good. They provide direct dial number so you do not need to dial access number and enter pin. Rate is very competitive. Customer service is good.

The new calling rate to India by Zenofon is 2 cent per minute.

In new promotion once you create a new account with zenofon they give you 30 minutes free calling.

The Auto recharge promotion is for both new and existing customers. Customer who create their credit card profile, mean who gave their credit card number to zenofon and enable auto recharge will get $ 10 credit. To curb misuse they will give instant $3 credit and will give $7 over seven days.

I think this is nice promotion for customer who is using zenofon and those are planning to use it. To claim your free 30 minutes register with Zenofon.

BingoTelecom Calling card : Cheap calls to India

2009-10-20T08:30:00.000-07:00

We have already posted so many cheap calling ways to India and other countries. But Post Diwali we bring to you some more cheap calling options to India.

BingoTelecom is offering calls to India in the price range of 1.69 cents to 1.83 cents per minute, this depends on credit value of the calling card you purchase. The above mentioned call rates are when using this calling card for making calls from USA to India (using local access numbers).

What I suggest is to buy a calling card worth USD 10, which will get you 454 minutes and 90 free minutes. This makes effective rate of 1.83 cents per minute (Regular rates to India is 2.2 cents per minute).

To make calls using Bingotelecom, first register with them. Dial the local access numbers and follow the prompt. (You can Register up to 5 phones to make it pinless calling)
For all calls, Dial 011 + Country code + Number you want to call and press #.

Some other features of Bingotelecom calling card :
PIN-less Dialing
Speed Dial
Auto Recharge
No-Hidden Fees
Balance/Minutes Remaining
Follow On Calls
Last Number Redial

For more information, Visit BingoTelecom.

Post Diwali : Calling Card, Voip Providers User review

2009-10-17T19:41:00.000-07:00

I hope you all have had a great Diwali this year. You all must have talked to all your loved ones in India this Diwali season and with voip around, the cost also would not have been much.

We posted about various voip providers like Rebtel, LocalPhone, Rynga and calling cards like Pingo, Simplecall, PinlessWorld Calling card which were offering cheap calls and free diwali offers to call India. What we would like from you now, is if you can provide your feedback about these service.

On the day of Diwali call volumes to India increase soo much that many voip providers could not sustain the traffic and start giving errors resulting in people not able to use their service to call India. So, please post about the voip provider you used this Diwali season to call India whether you liked it or not.

This post diwali analysis about various voip providers will help others to choose the best voip provider in the future. Post your feedback in the comment section.

SimpleCall Free and cheap calls to India

2009-10-15T07:01:00.000-07:00

Firstly wishing all my blog readers a very Happy Diwali. I hope you will enjoy this festival to the fullest. To all my NRI readers, just go through the blog and you will find many post regarding making cheap and free calls to India, one of them being Rynga Voip service. This Diwali just call all your relatives and friends in India and wish them up. I guess with Voip you will be able to do so with very low cost.

Lets now discuss about another voip provider, SimpleCall. Thanks again to Mr. Harry for informing us about it.

SimpleCall is offering all new users free 1USD to try their service for free. You can make use of this free credit to make free calls to India. The calling rate offered by SimpleCall to India is also just 1.6 cents per minute. So this free credit will enable you to make approx. 62 minutes of free call.

Since the calling rate being so cheap, I guess you can continue with SimpleCall as Harry gave good reviews about the service.

Using SimpleCall is lot more easy with many ways to use it. You can either use local access number service, dial local access number followed by international number and connect to ones living in India. You can also use SimpleCall Pc application (softphone) for making cheap Pc to Phone calls.

Apart from cheap rates to India, SimpleCall also provides very cheap rates to other Asian countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan.

So, go for SimpleCall. Try the service for free and please do post your reviews as it will help others know about the Simplecall service.

Pinless World Calling Card : India Bulk rate 1.6c per minute

2009-10-12T08:59:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Mr. Harry for informing us PinlessWorld Calling card. Its one of the cheapest calling card to India in the market widely used by many.

PinlessWorld Calling card offer calling rate of 1.6 cents per minute to call India. Unlike other calling card companies that offer low rates with an expiration date, PinlessWorld offers its low rates without any fees or expiration date. This is indeed good as they is no validity and you can use your credit at your pace.
Use your minutes when ever you need to and never be afraid of being charged any fees or having to use your minutes within a certain period of time.

Speed Dial: Enter your destination numbers and assign them to a quick dial number. At the balance prompt just dial the Speed dial number followed by #.

PIN Recharge: Instantly recharge your existing pin online via your PIN Manager.

Rounding: There is one minute rounding when using any one of our calling plans.

Call History: You can view all the calls you made from your PIN online in your Pin Manager. Get the Date and Time of each call you make as well as the number you called from and called to. Also view the duration of each call made online.

Dialing Instructions: To place a call to India you need to follow these steps
1) Dial Access number
2) Enter Pin Number (If Pinless Dialing is set up, please skip step 2)
3) Enter your destination number in the following format 011+Country code+City Code+Number

PinlessWorld calling card offers many local access numbers. So, this Diwali you have one more option. Try PinlessWorld Calling card.

Diwali offers by LocalPhone : Lowers calling rate to India

2009-10-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

With Diwali coming closer, the call volumes to India have increased. But we dont want people to spend more on making calls to India. With so many voip offers already in the market, we bring to your notice another good cheap deal to call India. Its by another major in voip market LocalPhone.

Thanks to Mr. Hitesh for informing us about the LocalPhone reduction in calling rates this Diwali. LocalPhone has announced their new rates to India of just 1.8¢ per minute to mobiles, 2¢ to major cities, and 2.2¢ to all other landlines.

Good things about this Diwali promotion from LocalPhone is that there are no expiry dates, no minimum top-ups, and no other terms or conditions required to participate. Best part is that these rates are not for a week or month but these rates are new rates by localphone and will remain in effect even after Diwali.

So, this Diwali you have one more option to use LocalPhone. Dont use your normal plans to call India, save on your phone bills by using Voip to make international phone calls.

IndiaLD Diwali Offer: Free 2 million minutes to India

2009-10-08T09:02:00.000-07:00

Diwali season is around and voip provider have stared offering free and cheap calls to India. More and more voip providers are coming up with special voip diwali offers to call India.

Firstly Rynga offered such cheap rates to India (one cent per minute), then Rebtel launched Diwali promoton offering very cheap calls to India. Reliance India call and now its turn for IndiaLd and this promotion is really big.

IndiaLD is offering free 2 million minutes as Diwali Promotion. IndiaLD is going to giveaway over 2 million minutes to call India for free this Diwali. Every active account holder will get 1 hour of free calling time added to their account on October 14th.

IndiaLD is also going to give away 10,000 special easy dialer accounts with an hour of free talk time to anybody who does not already have an account, and wants to call one number in India or other 27 countries for free. This is really big. These 10,000 accounts are on first come first basis.

What's for existing customers and how will they get free calling minutes to India. All active accounts on October 14th will automatically get 1 hour of free calling added into their account. You do not need to do anything other than to enjoy the free calling to India for festival season. But what you need to do is spread the word around about IndiaLD so that others also get free minutes.

These accounts (new 10000 accounts giveaway) will be good for 14 days or until all the minutes are used up. Enjoy Diwali and call home to India for free with IndiaLD. Surely worth trying!!

Rebtel (Diwali Season) : Lowers calling rates to India

2009-10-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

The day we posted about Rebtel for making cheap calls to Mexico, Rebtel came up with Diwali promotion, in which Rebtel is offering very cheap calls to India. The festive season of Diwali is around with Diwali on 17th Oct. Almost all Indian living outside India talk to their parents and loved ones on the day of Diwali (and during the whole festive season).

Each year various Voip providers bring special plans for Diwali season so that people can connect to India at cheap rates. Rebtel has been one of the first few ones this season to bring Diwali cheap calling offer.

So, lets then talk about the Rebtel Diwali campaign.

Until the 20th of October, users of Rebtel can call India for an all time low rate at 1.9 cents per minute to mobile phones and for 2.4 cents to landlines. The regular rate that we previously carried was, as you probably know, 3.9 cents per minute.

Furthermore, users of Rebtel are able to keep the 1.9 cent and 2.4 cent rate when the Diwali campaign expires. If they make a prepayment of USD $25, they will be able to call India at that very same reduced rate for an entire year. After the 364 day period subscribers call at the standard rate plan for any remaining credits.

Well Rebtel is a trusted name in the Voip industry and surely worth trying. Try Rebtel this diwali season to make cheap calls to India. Please do give your feedback about Rebtel as it is very important for us.

Indiald lowers call rates to India : 1 cent per minute

2009-10-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

Most of the voip providers have reduced their calling rates to India, with many offering in the range of just 1-2 cents per minute. Since, the calling rates have been revised by many voip providers, we thought to check the rates of providers we have already discussed on this blog.

Indiald, one of widely used voip provider to call India has lowered the call rates with offering from 1 cent per minute to 2 cent per minute depending upon the plan you choose.

By paying monthly cost of $29.99 you will get 3000 free minutes to India, effective rate of calling being just 1 cent per minute. If you dont want to spend so much amount monthly then, I guess $16.95 plan is good. The effective rate of calling is 1.7 cents per minute with 1000 free minutes.

Each month your plan will automatically renew, and you will get a fresh set of minutes. So their is no forwarding of free minutes. Your month starts the day you create an account with Indiald and will be good until that day next month. The rest of details about Indiald have already been discussed in the previous post.

Cheap and Free Voip calls to Mexico by Rebtel

2009-10-03T07:05:00.000-07:00

Lately a lot has been discussed about ways and offers to make cheap and free calls to India. Its time to look at the other destinations which are also among the most called countries. You know Mexico is worlds largest calling corridor. And because of this reason a lot of voip provider offer great deals to call Mexico.

Rebtel one of the most trusted and well known voip provider is now offering very cheap calls to Mexico. Rebtel is now offering just 1 cent a min so that all the Mexicans living in USA can connect to their loved ones in Mexico. Its actually result of the war between prepaid calling card industry (which seems to be involved in some kind of fraud activities) and voip industry that has prompted Rebtel to slash their calling rates to Mexico.

A Rebtel survey this month showed that 79 percent of participants believe they had consistently received fewer minutes than promised by calling card providers. With Rebtel there is no charge to set up a Rebtel account. No monthly fees. No connection fees. No hidden costs. Rebtel works with any phone – even the most simple, cheap mobile phone – without modification, software downloads or changes to the user’s calling plan with their cell phone provider.

Rebtel service is very easy to use, actually Rebtel is a well known name on this blog and I dont think I need to discuss about how to use Rebtel service.

What I think which is worth mentioning is the calling rates of Rebtel to make cheap calls to Mexico:

From calling USA to Mexico, Rebtel offers 1 cent per minute to call Mexico landline phones and 8.9 cents/min to call mobile phones.

You know by following a simple procedure you can make free calls to Mexico using Rebtel service. But in that case you need to ask your friend in Mexico to callback. Three simple steps and voilla make free calls to Mexico. More about it on Rebtel website.

Sabse acquires Mobivox Voip service

2009-09-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

This Indian voip telephony service is on a roll. Very famous SabseBolo ( of sabse technologies -- Sabeer Bhatia) has started expanding. First Sabse technologies acquired Jaxtr voip service and now it has acquired canadian voip service Mobivox.

Sabsebolo offers conference call solutions to and this take clearly means that Sabse is expanding conferece calling service. We hope to see Sabse entering the global market with step and provide conference call solutions in other countries. It will also be a watch if it uses Mobivox free service and cheap calling service to offers cheap and free conference call solutions.

If Sabse merge Jaxtr and Mobivox and bring something interesting into the voip market, a single voip solution which offers free and cheap calls. (Mobivox started to loose customers when they stopped offering free calls and never decreased the calling rates) .

Do share your views about this latest action by Indian Voip company Sabse Technologies.

AirtelCallhome Holi to Diwali Offer : Calling Card to India

2009-09-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

Its time for Diwali and the free and cheap calling to India are now in action. The first one to launch Diwali offer is AirtelCallhome. AirtelCallHome calling cards are widely used by NRI to call their loved ones in India. Specially in this festive season, the call volumes to India increase to great extent.

Voip providers bring their best deals to attract more customer. Lets now talk about AirtelCallhome festive offer named "Diwali to Holi offer":
Plan Value: $24.99
Admin fees: $6.99
Talktime: $18.00
Calling Minutes: 1353
Validity: 6 months

The good things about this offer by Airtelcallhome is the extended validity and cheap rates. The effective calling rate to India is just 1.84 cents per minute. Considering that the service is Phone to Phone (a calling card), the rate is cheap and AirtelCallhome service is surely worth trying.

The reviews about Airtelcallhome have always been mixed on this blog. Many people dont prefer Airtel but still a lot of people say that AirtelCallhome service is good and recommended.

It should be noted here that AirtelCallhome other plans like India one plan and Aapno Gujrat plan still holds, and people may opt for those.

Rynga : Discount Voip provider : Rynga offers cheap calls

2009-09-25T20:39:00.000-07:00

Another launch of voip provider by the well known Betamax/DellMont Sarl. Every now and then betamax launch a new provider which offers the cheapest calls rates, free calls to many destinations. And this happens when the prices of other betamax providers increases.

This time its the launch of Rynga: Discount voip provider, offering very low rates calls to India, free call to countries like Bangladesh (mobile and lndline), and this has come after the prices have actionvoip, smartvoip and Jumblo increased.

Specia thanks to Varsha for informing about Rynga. First lets talk about the call rates presently offered by Rynga for calling India.

Rynga is offering 1 US cent per minute to Indian mobile and 1.5 US cents to call landlines. Since most people in India carry a mobile, the deal seems to be good.

You can use Rynga as a PC to Phone calling service using their free softphone. Use can also use Rynga SIP settings for making SIP calls:
Rynga SIP settings:
SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.rynga.com
Proxy server : sip.rynga.com
Outbound proxy server : leave blank
Account name : your rynga username
Password : your rynga password

Another way of using Rynga is using access numbers: this way make phone to phone calls. Rynga offers access numbers in many countries. Web initiated calling method is also there.

Well overall Rynga service looks good, but the only problem with betamax is they increase the price anytime. Another bad thing is poor customer support. So I would advice to buy minimum credit and use the service till the price hike takes place. If you start liking Rynga service you may then continue.

Do give your feedback about Rynga Voip.

Mobile Number Portability : In India by year end

2009-09-24T10:33:00.000-07:00

Yes the news is true. This news is for people living in India, using Indian mobile numbers. If you read the todays newspaper, I am sure you must have come across this news.

People in India will soon be able to change their service providers while retaining their numbers. Telecom regulator Trai on issued regulations that will govern telecom mobile number portability (MNP) when it is launched in metros on December 31 and in the rest of the country by March 20, 2010.

Irrespective of the mobile technology and service provider you are using, you will get flexibility of retaining your number even if you switch service provider. Many a times, you get a good deal from a new provider say Vodafone but you are using Airtel. Now you dont want to leave your number (as you are using for long time, and people have your this number only), MNP allows you to do the same. Change your provider and keep your number same. This way gets more benifits, enjoy better deal. More options to the users. Consumer is the king !!

This will help to increase competition between service providers, catalysing improved quality of service and cheaper phone call rates.

While mobile number portability will be available only within a given licensed service area, however, if a number is already ported once, the number can be ported again only after 90 days from the date of the previous porting. Nice move by TRAI.

Free UK Virtual Phone Number : IndiaLD

2009-09-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

IndiaLD is quite famous and used by large number of people for making cheap voip calls to India. Here is another great voip service by IndiaLD, which allows users from UK to connect to your loved ones living in India.

Actually IndiaLD latest Virtual phone number service not only allow people to connect to India but also other 27 countries.

What you get after registering with IndiaLD virtual phone number service is a Free UK Virtual Phone Number. With this Free UK 0843 Phone Number That Can Call Your Phone In India or 27 Other Countries.

Confusing huh..? Let me clear the procedure to you. IndiaLD offers a UK Virtual phone number. It simply means that you get a UK phone number calls on which can be forwarded (directed) to a phone in India (or other 27 countries).

This way you save time and money by setting up your very own UK phone number. IndiaLD will forward it directly to you wherever you are. Its like making a local call from the other side of the world, and it's free for you. It will cost people in the United Kingdom 2 pence per minute to call you. The call will be charged directly to their phone bill. There is no need for them to create accounts, buy credits, or call access numbers. It's simple, and the cheapest way to call India from the U.K.

Now suppose you are living in UK and want to connect to your Parents in UK (cheap voip calls).
Register with IndiaLD virtual UK Phone number service. Register with your Parents number in India (or other 27 countries).
IndiaLD map your phone number to a UK 0843 number instantly, and email you with a new phone number.
Now you are living in UK and you have got a local UK phone number for your parents in India. Dial this UK number (use your UK phone), call will be forwarded to your parents in India. You will be billed at 2 pence per minute. The charge will appear directly on their phone bill.

List of countries where the calls can be directed.
* Countries that offer virtual number forwarding to mobiles and landlines. All other countries will only forward to landlines.
Australia Austria Belgium Canada* China* Denmark France Germany Hong Kong* India* Israel Italy Japan Luxembourg Malaysia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Singapore* Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand United States*

A very nice voip service for making calls to India and other 27 countries from UK.

Future of Voip in India

2009-09-19T04:39:00.000-07:00

Few days back I posted about the proposal by India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to block all Internet telephony services in and out of India till DoT can devise a method to track such calls.

Some people totally ignored this news saying that the news has no proofs and it wont happen. Guys, we all want that this ban does not happen but thing is the news has its roots and should not be ignored.

If anyone Googles about this proposed ban, you will find many newspapers, blogs and websites talking about the same. (Try going to Google news). To give you some examples, Techtree wrote "As per TRAI, there are around 34 companies providing VoIP services in the country. If the block is implemented, it is likely to disrupt the habits and businesses of many."

Similarly the news posted on timesofindia.indiatimes.com, another enewspaper khabrein.info, mid-day, on websites viz ciol.com and many more.

So just hoping that this ban does not materialize and we be able to make cheap calls to and from India.

Voip may be Blocked in India

2009-09-17T09:24:00.000-07:00

This is big. Its definitely not good for India nor for telecom industry, but this may get true. Voip calls may be soon blocked in India. No more Internet phone calls to and from India. The question is WHY ?

India’s lack of effective technology to track Caller Line Identification may cost you the comfort of cheap net telephony in India. India's security agencies have recommended a ban on international Internet telephony.

If this gets true, it will mean no more cheap calls, no more talking for long to loved ones living in India. The call rates will rise above 9-10 cents/min that too very few providers offering. No more Nymgo, Mediaringtalk or your SIP calls to call India.

Wonder what will happen to those using VOIP in India to make international calls. Those business which rely on voip. They will then have to switch to Airtel, Vodafone or Reliance for international phone calls. That means money running out. The question again WHY ??

Just because India dont have technology to trap these phone calls. We all understand that India's security is of prime importance but that does not mean to switch off from latest technology, cheap calls, revenue. The solution would be to create some technology to ensure security even when using Voip calls. I just hope "Voip to be free", no blocking of calls..Free and cheap calls to India.

Whats your take on this. Do Share your views.

Telifu :Unlimited Phone calls to India Plan Review

2009-09-16T09:12:00.000-07:00

Once again the voip market is targetting the India customers. So many voip provders now offering cheap calls to India. Some voip providers like freecallstoindia, freedomcalls, freecall087 even offering free calls to India.

Now lets talk about one voip provider which is offering unlimited calls to India plan or it enables people (your parents) in India to connect to you in USA. Lets discuss about Telifu voip service, and should people go for it..?

Telifu is basically a voip service which will be installing their (actually linksys) voip adapter in India. So its basically using Voip in India. Lets talk about the Telifu calling plans and see if these are worth taking or not.

Plan Name: Gold India
Unlimited Inbound and outbound calling to and from Telifu phone in India. Area code assigned by Telifu.
Monthly Fees: $16.99, Setup Cost: 0
Shipping Fees: $9.99
Incoming calls to your Telifu phone in India - Unlimited Minutes
Technical Support in India
Technical Support in US
15 Day Free Trial - Your first 15 days, compliments of Telifu *
Full Refund, including "Getting Started Cost" if canceled within trial period *

Another calling plan :
Plan Name:Bronze India
Unlimited Incoming calls to Telifu phone in India. 2.1cent/min to US/Canada. Area code assigned by TELIFU
Monthly Fees: $9.99
Setup Fees: $0
Shipping Fees: $9.99
Features:
VOIP Adapter for phone in India -- Free (Retail value of $69.99)
VOIP Adapter delivered in India
Includes a US based Telifu access number with area code of TELIFU's choice
Call from your India Telifu phone to any number in US/Canada for 2.1cents/min
Incoming calls to your Telifu phone in India - Unlimited
Telifu Softphone
Technical Support in India
Technical Support in US
15 Days Trial * -- Your First 15 days, Free. Compliments of Telifu

Well, I guess the plans are too much costly. I mean why pay for calls made between Telifu to Telifu if one using a voip adapter. Why not one use a simple SIP service (in Voip adapter in India) and make SIP to SIP calls for free.

Why pay for calls made from India to USA. Many voip providers are offering these free. I guess people should pay to Nymgo or Airtelcallhome the same amount (actually much less) and make so cheap calls to India.

Free International Calls from South Africa :freecall087

2009-09-14T09:08:00.000-07:00

If you are following Free Pc to Phone calls, then I am sure you are saving a lot on your phone bills. I hope you are now calling India free, using the ways we have blogged about in this past.

In our last post about freecall2india, I mentioned about the popularity of access dailing method and so many more voip provider coming up with idea of offering free international calls when you dial there access number. For Australia, Freedomcalls is the answer. For USA, UK, Brazil Freecalls2india is the voip provider for you.

And for making free international calls from South Africa, freecall087.co.za is the answer. Yes, freecall087 offers a local South African access number dialing which you can call many countries for free. The best part, India is included in the free calling list which allows you to call India free.

The free calling destination list is soo long that it would be better if you check freecall087.co.za website. The countries vary from USA,India, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, UK, Turkey, Portugal, South Africa etc etc etc.

So how to use freecall087 service to make free international calls :
1. Dial the access number 087-805-5762 from your mobile phone/landline. You can use your FREE minutes on your contract, or standard network charges apply if you've run out of free minutes.
2. The voice prompt will ask you to enter your destination number followed by #, in the following format:
00 + Country Code + City Code + Phone Number #
E.g.For UK you would dial: 00 44 207 032 1234 #

Another good thing, you need not to register with freecall087 to make free calls using them. Other features of freecall087:
Call from any mobile or landline
Easy to use service – Just dial and save!
No contract
No commitments
No set up fee
No pre-payments
No account to open
No Extra Bills
No Credit Cards
No Hassle.
Suported on Vodacom, CellC, MTN, Telkom, Neotel

Time to make free calls to India and other countries from South Africa.

FreecallstoIndia.com : Call India Free : Free International Calls

2009-09-13T06:25:00.000-07:00

I remember last year same time, I was blogging about various cheap offers to call India. The calling rate to India at that time was about 3-5 Cents per minutes and now the call rates to India was decreased soo much.

Today, there are voip providers which are offering Free calls to India. Last week we blogged about Freedomcalls which offers access numbers (local Australian numbers) dialing which you can connect to India for free. Today we discuss about another similar voip provider which offers USA, Brazil and UK access numbers.

Its good that more and more such local access number services are coming up. Actually they get the money by call termination cost (you pay to your telecom provider when you call their access number).

Bet hey..if you are having free local minutes by your telecom provider then you can effectively call India and many other countries for free (since you dial these local access numbers for free).

First let me tell you about the local access numbers which freecalls2india is offering :

Brazil
RJ (21) 7878-8511
BH (31) 7878-8511

UK
0844-880-2451

USA
DC 202-658-7961
FL 305-515-5352
MA 617-861-6087
MD 301-375-2152
NJ 732-504-6098
NY 631-763-1059
NY 718-971-5399
PA 610-540-7003
RI 401-314-2026
VA 703-459-9344

The best thing about freecalls2india is that there is no need for registration, credit card info or any other information. Just dial these access numbers directly and connect to India.

So here is the method by which you can call India free (call India free from anywhere in world):
1. Register with betamax provider like Telbo, ActionVoip, Webcalldirect.com or use Google Voice or any other voip provider offering free calls to USA (there are many).
2. Dial the above access number using webcalldirect/google voice for free.
3. At the prompt dial destination number in the format :
Country Code (USA) + Area Code (Miami) + Phone Number #

Apart from India, you can use freecalls2india service for making free international calls to following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela.

After trying this service, please give your feedback.