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We have seen some massive improvement in VOIP Providers offering India specific calling plans and call rates have decreased significantly in the range of 3-4 cents per minute.

India is no more the betamax monopoly. Betamax still offers 2 cents per minute on CallEasy and freecall offering at 1.5 cents per minute.

There is upcoming VOIP Provider (they do much more) called YouTring who are offering India Calling plan. They have slashed the rates during diwali to 3.25 cents per minute when you buy specific amount of Plan. Plans start from as low as $25. You can buy higher denominations such as $75 and $100. Each plan also gives you Free Talktime, for $25 you get 75 minutes free.

During diwali, we are most likely to make lot more calls and depending on one single provider during this extremely important season is not recommend. You must choose atleast 2 good VOIP Providers to make calls to India. YouTring seem like a decent option. However the only shortfall I see at this stage is Youtring can only be used via their branded TringPad softphone. This limits some callers who love to use Phone to Phone more than PC to Phone.

Please note if you are using Reliance India Call as a way of making calls to India, you are loosing a lot of money. It’s way too costly compared to some of the new VOIP Providers who are throwing in rock bottom prices at good quality.

Some of the other VOIP Providers you might want to check out are LocalPhone and Tringme.

Whats you favorite VOIP Provider this Diwali? Let us know. We recommend YouTring as a good alternative.

With festive season across the corner, we are looking for ways to make cheap international calls to India also around the world. Today we talk about another such VOIP Provider called Dial Simple.

Dial Simple is a USA based International calling service that means the service is only available if you have a USA number(which is needed while registering) and can dial a USA access number. I will explain how to use this from outside USA.

DialSimple mainly works via Access Number in USA. When you signup at DialSimple, they allocate you acess number which you need to dial for making calls out.

Dial Simple can also give you local numbers for your international contacts, more like LocalPhone VOIP service. They are currently offering a special promotion under which you will get 15 minutes of talktime free when you signup.

They apparently also running a special promotion when you make your first payment to buy more talktime credit, they will top up your account with upto $50. This is a bit vague, upto $50 doesnt really mean anything, It can be from $1 to $50. So be a bit cautious if you like to buy some credit expecting $50 of bonus talktime.

Let’s see how you can use their service.

1) Local Number for Your contacts:

a. Login and enter the international numbers where you frequently call in the Phone Mappings area provided on your home page. (one time process)

b. You will immediately see a local phone number corresponding to each international number.

c. Please store these local numbers in your phone book and call them directly from your registered phone to automatically connect to the corresponding international numbers.

2) Through Regular Dial:

a.Dial the access number.
b. When prompted, enter the destination number you want to call including the country code followed by the “#” key.

DialSimple also offers WebSMS service and worth checking. They are currently offering around 5.9 cents per minute to India.

If you are currently using DialSimple, do let us know your feedback. If not, go

Asia is fast overtaking USA and europe as the hottest destination for Highest Call Termination. Thailand is now opening up for VOIP and there are lots of Call Centers opening up in Thailand region who needs dedicated VOIP setup.

Thaitel one of the largest VOIP operator in Thailand is offering a great deal for it’s subscribers. We get some inquiries from people visiting this blog about making free calls to thailand. So here is your deal with Thaitel.

Thaitel offers cheap international calling card services in Thailand and across the world. You can subscribe to their service. Get a basic account and you can make totally free calls to Thailand for a limited time everyday.

All calls between 3.00AM - 5.00AM (Thailand Time) are totally FREE. You can call anyone in Thailand. Great for people calling from abroad coz 3:00 AM in USA would be a perfect time. Of course you should ensure that your thailand party is awake

Another good thing about Thaitel is they offer all their services via SIOP. So you can use your Nokia SIP Phones or VOIP Adapters to configure. They also have their own branded SIP Softphone.

Woot! It’s Diwali Time and we are on the lookout for unlimited calls to India offers. We have already negotiated a great offer with Pingo which will be published soon.

Till we finalise our Pingo exclusive offer, Let’s look at Pennytel’s Talk till you Drop offer. We first mentioned about Pennytel last December and thousands of people started using their untimed talk offer. Today we briefly talk about their latest unlimited talktime offers.

Pennytel as most of you would know is a australian VOIP provider, but their service can be used anywhere in the world using a SIP Softphone (Check our 5 SIP Softphone you must download).

Pennytel has stopped offering the Unlimited Untimed Call offer a few months back but with diwali fast approaching, they seem to be relaunching the same offer.

You can now make untimed calls to India(incl mobile), Pakistan and Bangladesh at a rate of 38.88 AUD cents, which comes to around 27.30 US Cents per call. Please note this is per call. Your call is untimed that means there is no time limit on your call. Once you make a call talk as much as you want, Its unlimited call for 27.30 cents per minute. It’s really a deal especially when people will be calling back home during diwali holidays.

With AUD going down the hill in recent forex transactions(I am also a forex dealer, FYI), you can expect to pay much less USD amount against AUD, so that’s another good news.

For Information sake, Let me put down the Pennytel Offer and It’s important that we analyse if there is any catch.

. Per call rates to over 140 destinations and now including India, Pakistan & Bangladesh
. Includes 50 FREE SMS monthly.
. 8cents untimed to over 70 destinations!
. Another 70 plus destinations for just 38.88 cents untimed!- This is for India,Pakistan and Bangladesh
. Free PennyTel to PennyTel Calls
. No commitment, contract or minimum terms
. No flagfall or connection fees!
. Per second billing - for destinations that are not untimed

I remember that Pennytel used to charge $5 per month as Membership cost which I believe they would continue to charge.

Pennytel also offers Access numbers in various countries but the system was damn buggy when I tried last time (Singapore number). You can try it all over again. They offer Shared Access numbers in Australia, USA, UK, Malaysia and Singapore.

For newbies, Pennytel works via SIP, so you need to setup a SIP Softphone (check our guide to setup a SIP Provider on SIP softphone)

Pennytel SIP Details:

SIP Proxy : sip.pennytel.com
Domain : sip.pennytel.com
SIP Register : Yes
Preferred Codec : g729, g723
Port : 5060

You can also setup Pennytel on your SIP Phone/VOIP Adapter or use their access numbers to dial out.

Please note, I spoke briefly with their customer support but it sucks. They have no clue whats available in their account page. DUH. Hope that doesnt stop you from trying them out

Happy Diwali in Advance and let me wish you all a prosperous year ahead.

Secondly, hang on there, I am going to post another wild calling offer for Diwali.

Gizmo5 which is now powered by Jajah has launched another interesting Free Conference Call service to gain market share in this emerging market.

Free Conference Call is fast becoming a market to rave about. With recession clouds the financial markets, companies are looking to cut cost in every possible way and free conference calling simply helps cut down the travelling cost across offices/clients.

There are many web based conference call systems however they lack the traditional way of conference calling via phones. People still love it and would prefer that especially in corporate environment. People on the go want to call into a conference.

Gimzo5 seem to be targetting this market. A business consumer on the go and wants to hold a conference. Gizmo5 now enables anyone to use Gizmo5 free conference call system via Phone.

How to use Gizmo 5 Conference system?
1) Dial +1 (605) 475-8515, Gizmo5 users dial CONFERENCE. Then when prompted enter your conference room number. For Gizmo5 users, its a free calls since in network Gizmo5 to Gizmo5 calling.
2) You can call this number from anywhere in the world (local/Long Distance charges apply unless you use a free calling service for USA such as EarthCaller or DukaDial
3)Upto 2-10 people in your conference room can join at one time.
4) You get a unique ID for your conference which you need to share withn your participant.
5)If you are not in USA, Gimzo5 participant can join from anywhere in the world and there is no limit.

Gizmo5 is another free conference call service but heck it works from our mobile so I would really like to stick to it. Had a 20 minute conference call with some friends and business partners and worked perfect without a glitch. Call quality is awesome, nothing more I can ask for when its FREE

We are really happy to see that more and more cheap VOIP Providers such as tabrio are launching every month, which creates some stiff competition in this market and in turn benefit us consumers.

Tabrio is one such company which offers a multi-usage VOIP platform (Web,Mobile,Phone to Phone or via Tabrio branded softphone). Eventually VOIP companies will move to the all-in-one model which integrates all these services under one roof.

Tabrio is currently offering $5 trial calls and SMS if you signup for their service. It’s a trial to check their voice quality and service. We found Tabrio to be one of the good ones out there in terms of voice quality. $5 call credit can give you upto 30-60 minutes of call credit, of course depends on where you want to call.

We noticed that when you switch between their call model, the voice quality somewhat varies which could be because of the different routes using different technology to route calls. Web call works great. Tabrio Desktop version has good quality too. Outlook plugin sometimes works weird, but this could be because of the MS outlook issues. Seriously the best part of Tabrio service is it’s interface, very sleek and professional. However to survive in this cheap international calls business you prolly need more than that

Tabrio Mobile works via TXT based call-back system.

How to Make calls with Tabrio Mobile?

CALL number
CALL contact
Ex. ‘CALL 17789877444′ or ‘CALL mom’ (Here you obviously saved the contact number as mom in your adress book, which Tabrio will automatically recognise.)

A few thing Tabrio could do to make their service even better:

1)Make calling rates more competitive
2)Offer Text messages in-network FREE
3)Deliver Ads via Tabrio Desktop version and make calls to certain countries free. Make this geographic to make sure they make money

Overall Tabrio has started on a good ground but there is lot to do. However this should not stop you from trying them. Try Tabrio today with $5 free call credit.

Who doesn’t know about Reliance India Call? It’s one of the fastest growing Calling service for Indians abroad. Today, we closely do Reliance India Call Review.

For newbies, Reliance India Call is a service operated by Reliance Communications Limited. Reliance India Call recently changed their brand name to Reliance Global Call and they operate in over 8 countries (USA,Canada,UK,Australia,NZ,Singapore,Hong Kong & Malaysia).

We tested Reliance India Call this week to see how good is the voice quality compared to some of the other cheap international calls to India Providers such as MediaRingTalk , LocalPhone etc. I must say Voice Quality is excellent as good as your landline phone, however when it comes to cost Reliance India Call is definately not the cheapest call service for India.

The normal calling rate for India on Reliance India Call is 7.9 cents/min which is extremely high compared to other VOIP Providers. However, they are currently running a promotion during Diwali season which lets you make calls at 5.1 cents/min. WAIT, don’t fall for this yet. We did a bit more investigation and found that 5.1 cents per mins only applied for recharge or new accounts and secondly, its only available if you call a Reliance phone line in India. Whoa, Reliance India Call is basically ripping you off when they say Reliance to Reliance is 5.1 cents lol, they route via their own private SIP network which cost them nothing. They could have easily lower this down to 1-2 cents per minute.

Let me share a insider story that most of you guys wouldn’t know. I met up with CEO of one of the large VOIP provider, he told me that they buy minutes from Reliance at 1.50 cents per minute (wholesale rate). Now you know what happens behind the scene and who charges you want. These E1 rates never go mainstrem, I know everyone wants to make profit but Reliance India Call can always offer at around 2 cents per minute using their own reliance international calling network.

Reliance India Call also has promotion Coupons and Codes which come up once in a while. If anyone has information regarding Reliance India Call Promotion Coupons please share with everyone.

Overall, we feel Reliance India Call is probably not worth your money unless they start offering calls to India at 2 cents per minute or close to that.

If you are a existing Reliance India Call user do let us know your feedback.

Do you want to expose your phone number online? Never. How about a VOIP forwarding service which lets you pick a phone number and forward it to your mobile/Landline and lets you deal anonymously?

In USA alone, there are cases of Identity theft which are also related to your phone numbers, so giving out your home phone number or mobile number over the internet isn’t really safe. Now stop worrying about it.

inumbr offers totally free incoming USA phone numbers, which you can call forward to your home/mobile number free.

Let’s see how Inumbr actually works:

1) Go to inumbr

2) Now Click on Get a Free inumbr, You should see the following, Of course every time a new number is generated.

3) You now have option to chose the expiry of your free incoming number, the max is 1 month.
4) You should then enter your USA number where you would like your calls to be forwarded. If you like to add a secondary line, they would divert calls to this line if the primary number fails or unreachable.
5) There are a bunch of options under more call controls and worth checking. Best is don’t accept calls from telemarketers

iNumbr is a must have if you have activity online which requires you to reveal your phone number now no one can really bother you, you can always disconnect the service even before the expiry of the free phone number.

Give them a try, Its FREE and its worthwhile.

LocalPhone is surely one of those startups which stands out in today’s competitive cheap international calls market. The only reason is they have access numbers which makes it one of the most easiest cheap international call service to use today.

Finally they added my country, Singapore to the list and that’s not all, In total LocalPhone has added over 41 countries to their service. In USA, they have added 80 new location and access numbers across 21 states

What this means is you can now get local access numbers to make cheap VOIP Calls on the go. With over 66000 access numbers all across the world, Local Phone is perhaps the biggest access number based VOIP service in the world.

We wrote a post on Local Phone a few days back, which should get you started.

Local Phone has a sleek interface and the best part is if you switch countries you can change your access number on the fly from your dashboard, which will immediately let you make calls locally in that country. For e.g If you’re travelling, work in a different area code, or just want to share your account with friends and family in a different city or country it’s easy to get a new list of local access numbers at any time. Just log in to your Localphone account and update “Your Location” in the dashboard sidebar.

I am sure most of you have difficulty to understand how Local Phone actually works.

1) You have a friend in India whom you want to call but you live in London
2) You signup at Local Phone
3)Now go to dashboard, Add your landline/Mobile phone from where you will be calling Local Phone Access number. That means, they won’t ask your for PIN code each time.
4)Now add your friend’s number, Local Phone will immediately assign a local UK (London) number for you to call.
5) Now Pickup your phone and dial that london access number.
6) Your friend’s phone will start to ring and now start talking.

Local Phone offers very competitive rates if not the most cheapest. India is at around 5 cents per minute, not bad.

We received a lot of good feedback about this service and now since it’s available for me in Singapore, am going to use it more often. If you are a existing user, please let us know your comments on the overall Quality/Service and reliability of LocalPhone.

Lately many VOIP Providers are either moving to advertisement based VOIP model or cheap international calls. There is a lot of competition in the market and with new VOIP Providers appearing almost every month, this will be huge in the coming days.

In this extremely competitive market, we have a new cheap VOIP provide IndaFon. IndaFon promises to offer cheap international calls to all over the world. Although, their rates are not extremely competitive, we know a way to get free international calls from IndaFon.

We held several discussion with Indafon team over the last week and finally negotiated the best free international calls deal in favour of our readers. When you sign up to IndaFon, you need to put our promo code voipguide in the Promo Code Box. This will give you 15 minutes of free calls immediately.

How do I get more free international calls Credit?
Thanks to Indafon’s referral system. You can go and invite you friends. When your invited friends signs-up, for each new member you will get 10 minutes of free international calls. The invited person gets 10 minutes free at the same time.

That means the more friends you bring under your invite, you will get 10 mins of free international call credit.

Indafon is purely a PC to Phone calling service. You need to use the flash phone they have under the account page.

We really wish Indafon was Phone to Phone Service, a lot of people seem to like it even though they pay for both legs of the call. Its easy and it works! We already communicated our feedback so lets hope they add this feature soon.

Overall Indafon is really cool when it comes to their interface. You might get a bit lost with all the flash around and it takes some time to settle down.

Do try them out and remember promo code “voipguide” for getting free international calls.