Recession is taking a toll on everyone's personal finances. Making a Low cost call using international phone cards or even VOIP Providers can save some money off your international calling expenses.
LocalPhone, winner of Best Cheap International Call Provider of 2008 award has reduced its calling rates to India even further to 3.3 cents only. I know its not the cheapest but as I always said, the best thing about LocalPhone is their Quality of Service, Prompt Customer Service and ease of use. They provide 66000 local access numbers in over 44 countries around the world. On top of it, they give you Free 5 Local numbers which you can directly forward to any phone number in the world. This feature is completely free, they only charge you for making calls to these numbers at their advertised rate. Trust me this comes in handy. No PINS no account numbers to remember.
However, they also provide a calling card in built in your account which you can use anywhere in the world (44 countries). This calling card is assigned to your account and shares the same credit as your localphone account.
If you are currently not using VOIP, you are loosing hell lot of money on international calling. Its time to switch to VOIP and start saving. You can get started with LocalPhone if you haven't already.
We would also like to hear your thoughts on LocalPhone as existing user. Any improvements or feature request can be posted under comments and I will ensure that LocalPhone takes a note of it and starts working towards the feature..
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Cheap Call To India at Recession Rates
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Qttel Offers Unlimited Free Calls
We are already in 2009 and expecting that more and more VOIP Providers join the "free VOIP" revolution and offers unlimited free international calls around the world.
Today we take a look at Qttel, a simple Phone to Phone based VOIP Service which promises to give unlimited free voip calls to over 50 countries. Thanks to comment on our VOIP Provider of the Year 2008, thats where we discovered about this service, which seem to have changed the name recently. I remember using this service but a non-free version of it.
You must enter your number in international format.
We have embedded their softphone into this post, you can start making calls right now. Use the following Qttel widget to make free calls.
QtTel is however a browser based VOIP service. It askes you to enter your phone number and your party's number and then Call. Qttel will first call you and then call the destination number. The biggest limitation of this service is it only works for 5 countries, Australia (FIX only),Canada (FIX & GSM!),UK (FIX only),Holland (FIX only),USA (FIX & GSM!). That means only people from this country can make calls. Of course if you have a incoming phone number from any of these country you should be able to receive calls from Qttel and of course make free voip calls.
Please note all calls are limited to 5 minutes but it seems you may dial the same number and over and over. Please let us know your feedback on Qttel.
Free Anonymous Phone Numbers by LetsCall.me
Its increasingly important to anonymize yourself especially your phone numbers online. There are already some free anonymous phone number services available and letscall.me offers a similar service for usa and canada numbers.
Most of the free anonymous phone number services are limited to USA, but letscall.me goes beyond USA and offers canada access.
Some of the important features of LetsCall.me:
-Accept calls anonymously without revealing your phone number
-No caller id blocking
-You can block unwanted calls
-Pick your own url, such as letscall.me/abc
-Your phone will ring with the other person's Caller ID - since the other person needs to receive the call first, they cannot fake their number
-Talk as much as you want as often as you like. That means no limit of number of minutes or how many times you can use the service. Its unlimited phone calls.
There a few other services worth checking out namely iNumbr.
