cheapest international calls to India

Lately many Betamax services are reducing the calling rates to countries such as India and Pakistan. It seems slowly we can see that cheap international calls to India and Pakistan is now a possibility.

I was talking to one of Asia's largest Telecom Carrier's CEO a few weeks back and he told me offering India for 3.99 cents or even lower could be possible and it would still be a profitable venture for them. Considering tremendous growth in VOIP in India and with mainstream telecom companies like MTNL and BSNL entering the market, its just a matter of time that VOIP will be more mainstream communication replacing PSTN lines. There will be Vonage, Sunrocket, PhonePower and Lingo like companies in India which would provide Digital Phone Lines.

Now till that becomes a reality, Betamax has again given away India at cheapest international call rate of mere 2.3 USD cents (Landline & Mobile). This is cheaper than what Intervoip offers at the moment roughly 3.1-3.9 cents. Thanks to Ramesh Kumar (Regular contributor and reader from Bangkok) for sending in this update.

SMSDiscount is a betamax product so you can either use their softphone or Phone to Phone service or use your own SIP Phone or VOIP Adapter.

For using SIP Phone with SMS Discount you can use the following settings:

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

We have noticed that Betamax often charges more while making calls via SIP. Please keep that in mind. You can also use X-lite with SMSDiscount.

We suggest make the most of this offer so you save some huge bucks on making cheapest international calls to India.