Mig33 : Free calls from South Africa to India, Pakistan and USA

Mig33 is a very old mobile voip provider. I remember using mig33 a year back (they offer some free credit when you join them). Alongwith that it also offers free credit to you when you refer a friend and he/she joins mig33.

Now mig33 has another very interesting offer for the people of South Africa. Mig33 is effectively offering free calls to India, Pakistan and USA for whole month of july. Yes you heard it right, you can make free calls from South africa in the month of july to these three destinations.

Where's the catch..? Yes the offer aint that straight forward (still the offer aint bad either).

The cost of calls in July, from South Africa calling India, US and Pakistan only will be refunded back in credits, on 1 August 2009.
Rates are for calling landline destinations. Calls are completed by dialing a local number. A connection fee to this local number may apply.

What does that mean now, it means that you have to pay initially for making these phone calls. But you will be refunded this amount as mig33 credit on Aug 1. I guess its a nice way to attract new paying users.

Joining mig33 is very simple, you can use mig33 in your mobile (it being a well known mobile Voip provider).

How to make a call?
On your phone, go to m.mig33.com
Create a username, password, mobile phone number and register
Download the recommended application
Open the application on your phone
Enter the authentication code, which you will have received by SMS
Click menu on the home screen, and then select call

You can use the Callback feature from your mobile phone.
Then you can call via a local access number.
You can also use the Web connect from mig33 Website.

In my opinion, if you are from South Africa then the offer by Mig33 is worth trying.

LocalPhone to reduce voip calling rates

Few days back we posted about LocalPhone, it being one of the widely trusted and used voip provider to call India. Actually the post was a review of LocalPhone by its satisfied customer Mr. Hitesh. I am sure many more people must have joined the localphone service after we published the review.

Our last post on making free calls to India was also a big hit, with lots and lots of people making use of Freedomcalls to make free voip calls.

Well now to inform you all that there is one more reason for you to join localphone. Hitesh mentioned in his review that localphone keeps on revising their calling rates time to time. One more time they have reduced their calling rates to many countries.

At 12:00 GMT (noon) on Monday 13th July localphone will be updating their calling rates and you can start to save even more when calling with Localphone.

Just a few of their more popular destinations that will be cheaper from Monday include:
Destination New Rate
Bangladesh 3.5¢ /min
India 2.5¢ /min
Malaysia 1.4¢ /min
New Zealand -Mobile 16.0¢ /min
Pakistan 7.9¢ /min
South Africa - Mobile 10.9¢ /min
Thailand 1.0¢ /min

Please check their call rates section on the Localphone website after 12:00 GMT on Monday to see their new rates. Time to make some cheap voip calls and save some bucks...!!

Free calls to India by calling Australian landline

A lot of Australian and UK voip provider offers free voip calls by dialing their access number. What you have to do is call their access number (local phone number) and then dial your destination international number, they will route your call to your destination for free.

This way free calls can be made to all over world, to even countries like India and Pakistan. But the catch here is that you have to dial those phone numbers (access numbers) which itself are costly. Many people use mobile cap minutes to make calls to these numbers. Anyways Freedomcall was offering such a deal but you were asked to make calls to Australian mobile numbers.

But now Freedomcalls has included Australian landline numbers in their access number list.
The access number list is as below:

1. Melbourne – 03 9095 7222
2. Sydney – 02 9086 9222
3. Brisbane – 07 3166 8111
4. Perth – 08 6363 5111
5. Adelaide - 08 7221 2444
6. Canberra - 02 6223 2622

Now the best part is since a lot of voip providers offer free calls to Australian landlines, so you can first make free calls to these landline numbers using any voip software (guess mediaringtalk is offering free calls to Australia). Now once you are connected to these landlines, then you can call your destination number: 011 + Country Code + Destination number .

This was free calls to India, free calls to Pakistan and other 70 countries can be made easily.
Do let us know if you were able to place free voip calls. Do share your experience with us..!!

Cheers..

LocalPhone User Review : Make Cheap calls to India

Yesterday we posted about LocalPhone offering free International calls to USA and Canada from anywhere in the world. I am sure many of you must have made use of the offer to make free calls on 4th July, the Independance Day.

LocalPhone is one of the trusted and most widely used voip provider. Many of our blog readers may already be using LocalPhone for their intenational and national calling needs. Specially, many NRI use LocalPhone for calling India. There are lots of reasons for that.

Mr Hitesh, one of the regular readers of Free Pc to Phone calls, shares his experience of using LocalPhone. He regularly uses localphone for calling India from USA. Below is his review about LocalPhone.

"I am using localphone for like last 18 months. It's a Uk based VOIP provider which offer phone calls to various destinations.

First thing which I like about localphone is its quality. The call quality (voice quality) is really excellent. There is no busy signal, no call drop or any voice drop sort of problem, indeed a complete peace of mind.

Second thing is its easy to use service. Only one time set up is required. I am using it to call India form USA. For each Indian number they give me one local USA number. So I just dial that number and my call get forwarded to my Indian destination number. They also have local access number, so I can even call any unregistered number. Another great thing about Localphone is that it also give local number from other 45 countries.

Third thing is that their rates are very reasonable. For e.g. to call India it is just 2.9 cent per minute. And they also reduce it periodically, when I was calling 18 months back, the rate was 6 cent per minute. Now it is just 2.9 cent per minute. So we do not have to find another cheap and better service provider.

Last but not least is there are no confusing plans and fees like monthly fees, service fees, expiration date of credit, so I do not have to worry about expiring minutes or unused credit.

In my opinion those who really looking for quality service at reasonable rate localphone is the answer for you. "

Cheers to Hitesh for such a nice review..!!

PS: If you also want to share your calling experiences with us, then you are most welcomed to do so. Write me at madhur.dce@gmail.com .

LocalPhone offers Free Calls to USA and Canada on Independence day

To celebrate the Independence day on 4th of July, LocalPhone is offering all completely free international calls to USA and Canada from anywhere in the world.

All the new and existing customers of localphone won't be charged anything for making phone calls to USA and Canada on both landlines and mobile phones. This offers starts from midnight on Saturday morning on the east cost of Canada and lasts until the end of Sunday in Alaska.

When there is financial crises in the market, localphone don't want people to spend money on phone calls by offering them such a nice deal at this important time of the year.

The best part about localphone is that it offers local access numbers in about 45 countries. Even if you aren’t in one of those 45 Direct Dial countries, you can still call from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and a Localphone VoIP account.

So, if you have still have not joined localphone then its time to do so.

DialSimple calling plan to India review

There are plenty of voip providers in this market, each one of them boasting about its calling plan. You really be careful while choosing your voip provider and the calling plan. You might end up paying high or to the wrong one. One example is with betamax, some people just buy too much credit from betamax and when beamax increases their call rates (or they face any other problems), their money effectively is wasted.

Today, we talk about the voip provider named Dialsimple. It has launched its new calling plan for India. Depending upon the credit you buy from them, your call rate will vary. Dialsimple is offering lowest call rate to India at 1.9 cents per minute.

But your call rate to India will be 1.9 cent/min only when you buy credit worth $30. If you buy for $20, you get 800minutes with effective calling rate of 2.5c/min. The call rate further rises if you buy less credit.

The only good point about the offer is that credit never expires. But there is a catch. These call rates are only for a month. Suppose, you buy credit worth $30 on 1st july, during one month that is till 1st August, your call rate to India will be 1.9 cents per minute. Now durin this month say you used only $10 credit, then remaining $20 credit will carry forward but now your call rate to India will not be 1.9 cents per minute but 4.9 cents per minute.

Firstly, their is nothing great about Dialsimple that people should go for it. Secondly the plan aint exciting at all. Who will buy $30 credit in a month, people tend to buy credit in small chunks and it should be so. It aint worth buying so much credit at one go, suppose you don't like the service then all your credit gets wasted. Neither it is offering such cheap calls. We have already discussed cheaper plans to India.

I guess, Dialsimple needs to rethink about the plan it is offering to India. In my opinion calling plans to India offered by voip providers like YupeePhone are better...!!

Zenofone free credit offers is back !!

Few days back, we posted about Zenofon. Zenofon was offering free calling credit worth $10 but when Zenofon grew up they reduced the offered free credit to $1.25.

Later, the free credit offer was suspended., but now the free credit offer by Zenofon is back. Zenofon is offering all its new users free credit worth $1. You can use this free credit to call anywhere in world. Yes this works for making free calls to India. Only thing to note is that Zenofon free credit offer is effectively valid for USA users because you need a USA number to use Zenofon.

The calls are made via access number (Pin less dialing). But, if you have a USA phone number (many of you must be having), then you can use Zenofon.

One more point to be noted is that you can register with Zenofon only via invite (only then you get this free credit). So, better to register as soon as possibe as Zenofon can again suspend this offer. Hurry !! Register with Zenofon.

YupeePhone adds Bangladesh to Free destination list

As we know that calling Bangladesh is quite expensive. Not many voip providers offers cheap calls to Bangladesh. Specially for calling Bangladesh mobiles, the call rates are high. Earlier Nymgo was offering unlimited plan to Bangladesh but now they have removed their plan.

But people who want to call bangladesh have many reasons to cheer about. YupeePhone has added Bangladesh Mobile to the free destinations for which the company offers 120 free minutes every month. (under its pay as you go plan).

The offer is active and all YupeePhone customers will be able to call Bangladesh Mobile for free, as long as they deposit $20 in their account every four months. The offer applies to existing and new customers. If a customer deposited $20 in the last 4 months, he/she will have 120 free minutes every month to call Bangladesh Mobile. These minutes are totally free and there will be no charge for them. The $20 will be available to use.

YupeePhone rate for calling bangladesh is 3.65 cents per minute (you can use your $20, hey those 120 fre minutes are apart from this).