SmartVOIP Now Offering Cheapest Calls To India

We talked about AirtelCallHome promotion yesterday, today we noticed that Smartvoip has reduced calling rates to India.

Smart VOIP is a betamax product and now they are offering calls to India at 0.005 eurocents (0.0063 US Cents) making it the cheapest VOIP call to India even cheaper than our favorite ActionVOIP. As we said before, Actionvoip's competitive india calling rates will only trigger a massive price cut for calls to India and consumer will benefit.

The new rates are effective immediately so if you already making calls with smartVOIP, you should have noticed the rate change.

Smart VOIP also offers SIP support that means you can use SmartVOIP over SIP Phone or any supported SIP device.

You can use following SIP settings for SmartVOIP:
SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.smartvoip.com
Proxy server : sip.smartvoip.com
Outbound proxy server : leave empty
Account name : your SmartVoip username
Password : your SmartVoip password
Display name/number : your SmartVoip username or voipnumber
Stunserver (option) : stun.smartvoip.com

These new rates for India are already lower than our target price of 1 cents per minute calls to India. Can India would soon be a free destination? Probably not unless VOIP calls can be terminated as FREE or cheap calls on our mobile or landline networks. Greedy Mobile operators and landline companies won't let it happen. Lets just expect that stiff competition will force them to lower the price. Let them fight as we benefit from lower calling charges

Airtel Call Home Offering Calls To India at 1 Cent Per Minute

With actionvoip offering lower than 1 cents per minute to india, other VOIP companies
are under tremendous pressure to reduce their rates to offer competitive pricing. Airtel Call home, part of bharati Telecom one of the world's largest telecom carrier is definately one of those VOIP companies who follow our blog regularly and have realised the potential and importance of offering 1 cent per minute to india.

AirtelCallhome has launched India One Product under which offer you need to pay $9.99, which has a rental of $ 3.99, for the balance $ 6 you get the rate of 1 cent / min rate on local access. Howeever, please note that this offer is only applicable for local access that means you can't use any other way to use airtelcallhome like toll-free number which will charge you at @3 cents per minute.

Now although, airtelcallhome claims that they offer 1 cents per minute to india, its not actually 1 cent becoz we end up paying $4 as rental fees which do not contribute towards any calling minutes. That means you only get $6 for calling India which gives you 600 calling minutes to India.

This gives you an effective calling rate of 1000/600= 1.66 cents per minute to India. I would competitive calling rate but not the best. obviously airtelcallhome is widely used by indians worldwide and those who are currently using their calling card might be interested in switching to this plan which would save them some money on calling India.

Always remember the customer is king and I always said that 1 cent per minute without any catch or FUP or terms if possible for large carriers. Lets see when we are offered with such pricing, hopefully soon. Actionvoip is already doing it and more VOIP Providers will follow soon.

ActionVOIP SIP Offers Cheapest Calls

Betamax has yet again launched a new VOIP service and adds more variety to their existing VOIP offering. The good part of this new VOIP service ActionVOIP is of course the best and most cheapest calling rates to India.

India was offered by a few VOIP services at around 1.39-1.70 cents per minute range by VOIP Providers such as nymgo and Mediaringtalk. As we already predicted that this would trigger further competitive prices for India and Betamax has again managed to lower down the prices to a rock bottom .07 cents per minute. That means first time ever, calling india is cheaper than 1 cent per minute and that means you can call India at around 35 paise per minute, this is cheaper than a local call in India lol. Now you know you are being treated like a slumdog in India by telecom companies and mobile operators in India such as Vodafone, Bharati who charge anywhere between 35paise-1 rs for calls within India. WOW and a international ISD calls originating from outside of India is charged at 35 cents much cheaper than local calls.

Neverthless, 0.7 cents per minute is damn cheap and hats off to betamax to offer such price. Lets hope more popular VOIP Providers like localphone , nymgo start offering these prices very soon. This would not just eradicate low quality VOIP operators offering horrible quality calls but we would have more choice and quality at great prices.

You can start using ActionVOIP by downloading their softphone or you can use SIP with ActionVOIP.

ActionVOIP SIP Settings:

SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.actionvoip.com
Proxy server : sip.actionvoip.com
Outbound proxy server : leave empty
Account name : your Actionvoip username
Password : your Actionvoip password
Display name/number : your Actionvoip username or voipnumber
Stunserver (option) : stun.actionvoip.com

You can also use Actionvoip from local access number in your country, however currently the local access number dialing facility is available in a few countries mostly european countries only.

We suggest you give actionvoip a try with a small topup and check the quality of the service. Do remember to give your feedback coz your comments counts and it helps everyone on the blog to make a decision