RingPlus comes with voip service : Call India cheap
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Update : Localphone is running a promotional offer. When you sigh up with $1 credit, you will get $2.5 credit. That's additional $1.5 credit as bonus.
$1.5 credit is worth 100 minutes to India. This makes cheapest voip provider to India with effective rate of just 0.6 cents per minute. This offer can be used to call other countries as well. What are you waiting for. Just try Localphone.
(No expiry of credit, good voice quality, and sign up for free - 1st call also free. Add credit as low as $1 plus get $1.5 bonus).
Coupon Code : FPBONUS
SimpleCall Free and cheap calls to India
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
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
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.
Update : Localphone is running a promotional offer. When you sigh up with $1 credit, you will get $2.5 credit. That's additional $1.5 credit as bonus.
$1.5 credit is worth 100 minutes to India. This makes cheapest voip provider to India with effective rate of just 0.6 cents per minute. This offer can be used to call other countries as well. What are you waiting for. Just try Localphone.
(No expiry of credit, good voice quality, and sign up for free - 1st call also free. Add credit as low as $1 plus get $1.5 bonus).
Coupon Code : FPBONUS
IndiaLD Diwali Offer: Free 2 million minutes to India
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
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
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
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.
