Viatalk Unlimited World Plan Reviews

When Vonage came out with Vonage World Plan, the competitors in the VOIP Home Phone Provider market had to respond. Now almost every other home phone service is offering unlimited world plan which also including India. You must read our Viatalk Review before signing up for this service.

Viatalk, VOIP Provider has been around in the US Market for long. Viatalk offers home phone services across USA and has now introduced Viatalk Unlimited Plan which includes totally unlimited free calls to over 60 countries around the world including India, Mexico, China, and the U.K.

Viatalk World plan costs only $189/per year which means only $8.95 per month which is way cheaper than Vonage World Plan which is priced at $24.99 almost three times costly than Viatalk.

In order to use Viatalk World Plan, you must signup for Viatalk Unlimited Plan which gives free unlimited USA and Canada calling which costs $8.95. That means the total cost of using Viatalk World Plan is $.8.95+ $8.95= $18 per month

Viatalk offers all important features of a VOIP Phone Service including Voicemail, Forward phone to SIP Provider, CID Privacy, 3 way conference calls, Caller Id, Anonymous Call authentication, Group Call Broadcasting etc.

If you are considering switching your home phone service or was considering signing up for Vonage World plan, Viatalk world plan beats most VOIP Phone services hands down with the plan features, pricing and destinations. You gotta be kidding to pay Vonage $24.99 when you can get the same homephone service for only $17.90.

We strongly recommend you choose Viatalk World Plan over Vonage World Plan.

VOIP In UAE To Be Legal By End Of 2009?

It seems UAE has finally understood the important of VOIP and telecommunication in maintaining the competitive advantage. How does this affect you as a VOIP user or VOIP Provider? Lets discuss.

We reported a few months back that Etisalat is blocking VOIP in UAE region and also possible charging a violation charge for people using VOIP via VPN. This forced many users to actually switch to DU or Etisalat's VOIP solution which is almost 10 times costlier than the most cheapest international calling service like Betamax etc.

According to Maktoob Business, A senior official at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said, International internet calls could be legalised in the UAE by the end of the year. Mohammed Gheyath, executive director of technology development affairs, said the regulator is drawing up a policy on international internet telecommunications, know as Voice over IP (VoIP) and will be published before year-end.

Currently only Etisalat and Du are legally allowed to offer VoIP services within the country but now they can start offering the service outside the country which means it can bring down the cost of VOIP lower but not to extent of other cheap international calls providers.

However, In my opinion UAE won't do any good by just giving VOIP in the hands of the two large telecom companies who would make little effort to bring the cost down and create a monopolistic market in UAE. What they should do instead is start offering licenses to international players and let them compete with Du and Etisalat. However looking at how things work at govenment level, its very unlikely that this will ever come in play atleast not so early.

The only hope is it might bring down the cost of ownership for telecom players and might bring down cost if they are ready to pass the benefit over to consumers. However, in monopolistic marketcompanies often set the prices and people follow them.

If you live in UAE or call UAE often or offer VOIP services to UAE, do you think this will change anything for you?

Google Voice now lets you use exsting home phone or mobile number

Google Voice totally changed the way you make and receive calls in USA and Canada. Now it went one step further in allowing to choose your existing number as Google Voice number.

According to the official Google Voice Blogpost, they have created a lighter version of Google Voice for people who are willing to trade some features for the ability to use their existing numbers. you now have the choice to get Google Voice with your existing mobile number OR with a Google number.

Now If you sign up using your existing home phone or mobile number, you'll still get many of Google Voice's features. Checkout the following video:



If you already have a Google Voice account, you can add Google voicemail to any mobile phone you've linked to your account.

Now this is fantastic news, You can do more with your residential phone number or mobile number and imagine that you have added Google Voice to your own number, the possibilities are now endless.

Reliance iCall VOIP Provider 1 cent offer Review

Reliance definitely has large footprint when it comes to telecommunication in India with large infrastructure to provide quality and cheap price. But before you bet your money on Reliance iCall, do read this review.

Reliance iCall was launched a while back and their services was a instant hit. However, after gaining the user base they stopped offering free international calls and started branding themselves as a cheap international call provider. However, its not simple to gain market share in this extremely competitive market. With companies like Airtel Call home , Betamax breaking the 1 cent per minute barrier, Reliance finally had to match the calling rates.

Relianceicall.com now offering 1 cent per minute to India, UK, USA, Israel, Taiwan, Denmark, Malaysia, Columbia and many more. Reliance claims that there are no further hidden charges such as connection fees or monthly usage fee etc. No Annual contract which is generally not found in this market anyways. In terms of voice clarity, Reliance should be able to offer good voice quality as they run their own E1 lines.

Reliance iCall must be used as a softphone and it doesn't officially reveal SIP settings. You may however try the following Reliance icall SIP settings:

SIP Proxy : 220.224.129.34:5060
user Id: reliance icall username
password : reliance icall password

Another drawback of using Reliance icall is lack of customer support. There is no way to reach their customer service representatives via phone which means if there are any issues with your payments or with reliance icall service, you will have to rely on the feedback form. We are not too sure how effective is feedback form which is totally hidden from the average users.

In our opinion, Reliance icall is not a bad choice to try. You can atleast expect good quality calls at cheaper rates. If you are currently using reliance icall, we would like to hear your opinion. Lets us your review/feedback on reliance icall

Cheap Calls to Mexico for only 1.5 cents

Almost 30% of US population calls mexico each week with growing number of people calling back home to Mexico, Most VOIP providers are now offering cheap calling rates to Mexico.

Rebtel recently announced a market leading rate to call Mexico at only 1.5 cents. Many US VOIP Providers are offering free calls to Mexico but with a monthly plan. If you do not like to be bounded by a contract plan, then Rebtel might be a good choice to make cheap calls to Mexico Landlines at 1.5 cents per minute.

If you still don't know, Rebtel is also offering only 1.9 cents per minute to India which is now very close to Localphone and Nymgo. If you still didn't try this awesome calling service, its about time to give it a try.

Rebtel also gives Free 10 mins of Trial calling minutes to try their service before you decide to buy. Rebtel is excellent for people who do not like to sit in front of PC for making calls. You can use your mobile to make calls via Rebtel.

Try first 10 minutes Free on Rebtel and do let us know your feedback/comments.

Free Calls to the USA on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one of the most important religious holidays in USA and its observed tomorrow November 26 2009. We found some great ways to make free calls to your friends in USA on Thanksgiving.

1) Localphone is offering five days of 100% free, no strings attached calling to the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving! All you need to do is Signup at Localphone as a user if you are not already one.

Starting at 5am GMT on Wednesday 25th November (midnight Eastern Time) and lasting until 10am GMT on Monday 30th (midnight in Hawaii), calls to all landlines and mobiles in the United States will be completely free with Localphone.

2) TruPhone, a mobile VOIP service is also offering 12 hours of free calls to USA on Thanksgiving. During 12 hours on Thanksgiving (Thursday November 26th, between midday and midnight GMT), all calls made to US landlines or mobiles using Truphone will be completely free!

Make this thanksgiving special for your friends and family by greeting them over phone for FREE :-)

LocalPhone VOIP Providers Now Offers Fully Featured SMS Service

LocalPhone is one of our favorite VOIP Providers right from the first day we reviewed them, As many of you already know I am big fan of LocalPhone.

Localphone recently announced that they started offering a new SMS service in addition to their already awesome VOIP service. However, The service lacked integration with LocalPhone Numbers (I have a UK number), which means I had to add my mobile number in order to send an SMS. Guess, Localphone realised this soon enough. They have now added bunch of new features which also includes sending SMS from your localphone numbers.

1) SMS Your Direct Dial Contacts: Users in the UK can now send SMS messages to Localphone Direct Dial numbers and the message will be forwarded on to the corresponding contact. There is no extra charge for using this service, but standard SMS rates apply. Did you get this feature? Its like you added your mom's phone number in your direct dial and Localphone gave you a local number to call her. You can now send SMS to that local number and your SMS will automatically reach your mom's number. Great feature for sending SMS abroad easily

2) SMS History: From now on any messages you send will be recorded and available on your SMS History page.

3) Receive SMS Messages on Your UK Incoming Numbers: If you have a Localphone Incoming Number in the UK you can now retrieve SMS messages too. When a friend sends a message to your number it will be displayed in your SMS History. You can also send SMS’s from your Incoming Number when sending a Web SMS. Localphone is also trying to expand this functionality to more countries.

So, did you try the all new Localphone SMS feature yet? Give them a try Today!

PhonePower.com Phone Power VOIP Phone Service now offers Free International Calls

If you are looking for a VOIP Phone Provider or currently using PhonePower as your home phone service, there is a good news for you.

Yesterday, PhonePower representatives confirmed that Phone Power is now offering 60 minutes of free international calling to 88 countries every month, including major calling destinations like Mexico, China, India, and most of Europe. This offer is valid for any Phonepower plan.

PhonePower currently offers $199 Plan which gives second year ($199/24=$8.29) totally FREE making it one of the cheapest home phone service to own in USA. Now with free international calls to over 88 countries just spice up the already HOT offer.

If you a existing PhonePower customer, You are automatically included in this offer and you don't have to do anything special to make free international calls. Just pick up your phone and start calling your friends/family abroad.

If you are looking to switch from existing home phone provider like Verizon or ATT, then PhonePower is a great choice. Try PhonePower today with Free International calling

VoipGain.com Voip Gain Betamax VOIP Provider Review

Betamax did it again! A new VOIP service from Dellmont Sarl just hit the market, but is it worth your money? Find out as we review Voipgain, the new Betamax VOIP Provider

As we successfully concluded during our last discussion that, every month Betamax (Dellmont Sarl) comes with a new VOIP service provider to tempt VOIP users around the world with cheaper international calling rates and offering some free international calls to destinations. The strategy is always simple, offer a few free international calling destinations not offered otherwise, so you are sure to gain some customers.

VOIPGain.com is no different from recently launched Rynga.com. VoipGain offers free international calls to about 35 destinations which also include Malaysia (Landline) and China (Landline + Mobile). Voipgain offers 1 cent per minute to India landline and 1.2 cents per minute to India Mobile. Anyone see agreesive calling rate strategy here after Rynga increased their rates to India to 1.5 and 1.3 respectively.

Lets see how you can make calls with VoipGain.

1) Voipgain offeres full SIP support, which means you can use Voipgain with SIP Softphone or VOIP Adapter.

VOIPgain SIP Settings:

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

2) Phone to Phone: Remember that if you use phone to phone feature, you need to pay for both connections.

3) Local Access Numbers: VoipGain has local access numbers in lot of countries including USA, UK, Canada and Australia.

If you want to use Voipgain without using SIP as pc to phone service, you need to download voipgain softphone here.

Honestly, I do not see any reason to go for VoipGain as we all know whats going to happen next, however if you are still in love with Betamax and like to try VoipGain, play safe and deposit $10 and use it while their rates go up again.

Let us know your voipgain review/feedback if you are already using them.

Cheap Calls to Indonesia

Indonesia was once one of the costliest destinations to call but thanks to VOIP now it's even cheaper to call than most other Asian countries.

Betamax outfit Voipgain is now offering industry leading cheap calls to Indonesia for only 1 cent for calls to Indonesia landlines and 0.05 cents for calls to Indoensia Mobile. These offers are truly remarkable. However, Its betamax so be very careful with spending a fortune with Voipgain.

If you compare Betamax to other VOIP services,

1) Localphone offers calls to Indonesia at 6.7 cents per minute
2) Rebtel offers calls to Indonesia at 2.5 cents per minute to Landline and 7.7 cents per minute for Mobile.

At the end of the day for VOIP Providers, its all about volume. If they can drive large volumes of calls to certain destinations they would be more than happy to cut the calling rates. Betamax as well know can offer dirt cheap rates. At the end of the day you either get low quality of calls or they raise the rates overnight.

However, You can still try them for calling Indonesia for such low price.

Fring Releases Worlds First Andriod VOIP App

Fring did it again (as always) beating their competitors at Andriod VOIP. Android Phones are getting popular in the USA and VOIP is soon going to be huge on Android.It seems Fring realised the potential much early and started working towards the goal of introducing the world's first Android VOIP application. fring has just released its first version for Android phones, enabling the world’s first free voice calls (VoIP) over fring and Skype, MSN and Google talk.Accroding to the official PR, As of today, users can enjoy the world’s first free voice calls (VoIP) over fring, Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. As on the rest of fring’s supported-platforms, they can also see real-time presence and live chat with their ICQ, Yahoo! and AIM buddies and use Twitter, as part of their integrated contact list.fring on android works over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi internet connections. The brand-new Android version can be downloaded via fring’s WAP site at m.fring.com or directly via the Android Market. Check out Fring Andriod VOIP Application Information Video: