Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Mojocall.com Mojocall offers free international calls to 60 countries

Welcome to 2010. Like 2009, VOIP will continue to overtake PSTN in every part of the world and Free International Calls will continue to make users happy.

Today we look at Mojocall.com, a service by the founders of IndiaLD. With Mojocall, You can now make free international calls from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Africa. We have in past discussed a similar free calling services from Australia AussieCall and Japan (Azabutel), but Mojocall will let you make free calling to 50 countries (including India) from New Zealand and South Africa. Like other services, you need to use your mobile minutes to make calls. In NZ, Mojocall is currently only setup to get calls from NZ Telecom customers but should be company is adding access for Vodaphone customers very soon.

Readers from Australia are already using the Aussiecall service but now Mojocall will be good free international call service for NZ, SA, Australia and Japan customers going forward.

Enjoy making free international calls in 2010 and do let us know the feedback on Mojocall.

Friday, December 25, 2009

10 Million minutes of FREE calls to Australia, Canada, China, India, the UK and USA

I love Christmas and the holiday season. This is the best time to make free calls to your family and friends as most VOIP Providers throw in some awesome offers. Today we are going to look at how to make free calls to Australia, Canada, China, India, the UK and USA during holiday season.



To celebrate the holiday season, PennyTel is giving away 10,000,000 minutes of FREE calls to Australia, Canada, China, India, the UK and the USA.



This offer is valid for all old and new Pennytel customers, which means if you not yet signed up for Pennytel, you can signup now and start using this offer.



Pennytel 10 Million Free minutes offer is for limited time and will run from the 18th of December to the 2nd of January, or when all the free minutes have been used (whichever comes first), and is exclusive to members only.



Still about a week to go to enjoy this promo, if you didn't use it yet. Spread the news and enjoy FREE calls while they last.



Do provide feedback on whether you are able to complete your calls and to which destinations, so it helps other readers in using this service.



Again Merry Christmas and Enjoy the Holidays!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Cheap and Free Calls on Christmas

There are many ways to make cheap calls this Christmas and wish all your friends/Family a Merry Christmas! Lets find out!

1) Who can beat Skype? Skype Country Plan is one of the most efficient and cheapest way to make calls to your friends and family. Starting from $3.95, you can get 10000 minutes of calling to 35 countries. Can anyone beat that?

2) IndiaLD is offering cheaper deal to call India. Get 5000 minutes for $35 (.007 per minute) to call India. That deal is for a limited time only, has a 45 day validity, and you must call through our California USA access number.

3) Truphone is offering 50% off discounted calling rates during the 12 days of Christmas (as they call it). TruStandard calling rates will be cut by 50% to landlines in 30 countries (and mobile phones in 5). Half-price calling starts at 00.01 (GMT) December 25 and finishes at 23:59 (GMT) January 5.

4) Localphone is not offering any promotional offer during Christmas, however they are anyways one of the cheapest and best international call providers.

5) Rebtel is one great VOIP Provider worth a shot this christmas and new year! Cheap calling rates and Local calling numbers makes it different from other provider. No special Christmas deals on Rebtel though.

6) If you are still a fan of Betamax, then give them a try. However, don't expect them to complete your call. Christmas is one of the busiest days for all telecom networks and with Betamax, you need more than luck to get your calls through :-)

7) If you want to make calls to USA, UK, Singapore, China and Australia, why not try MediaringTalk, its FREE and each call last for 10 minute. Mind the heavy traffic though.

8) RingPlus and 1-800FREE-411 are going to be overcrowded on Christmas eve. Hey, buts its FREE. Give them a try.

Whichever VOIP Provider you select to make calls to your friends/family, VOIP will play a major role on Christmas Calling market.

Merry Christmas to all blog readers and you guys have great holiday season!

O2 buys Jajah VOIP for $200 Million

Jajah came to spotlight a few years ago and since their early launch have been extremely successfully in creating marketing buzz. Definitely enough to get massive funding and now a buyout deal.

Jajah intially launched as a Free Calling Service created massive media buzz since it was one of the first free international call service launched. Jajah became popular thanks to first mover advanage. Soon, they realised that you can't burn VC's money so fast that you need to ask for more funding every quarter. However by then Jajah had millions of users which they can now hope to convert into paid users. We don't know the numbers but i believe about 5% users might have converted into paid customers from free users which is still not bad considering its popularity.

Jajah in the mean time, kept pushing its brand via media awareness, press releases. At once, I remember Jajah released press releases almost every week some of they were prolly not so "News worthy". However, we must note that Jajah was perhaps the only and most successful VOIP venture next to GrandCentral who managed to get significant funding and now a solid buyout deal.

Jajah also raise many eyebrows when they taken over the Yahoo Voice platform and its userbase. A significant move in terms of expansion and improving its brand.

O2 finally snatched Jajah for $200 million dollars. This indicates 2 things, VOIP hold massive potential in the long run and Mobile operators have realised that VOIP could crush their earnings, so why not join the party and get the fair share.

However, Its important to note that not all VOIP Providers will get $200 millions. Jajah was special in many ways and i think they are worth the price. However, Honestly Jajah doesn't anymore provide cheap international call service, there are many VOIP Provider in the world who are cheaper than Jajah. However, Brand value and perception can sell anything, so why not a costly "Cheap VOIP service". Sure they are people who are ready to premium just to use Jajah. Guess O2 won't bother much :-)

Monday, December 21, 2009

Cheap Calls to India at 0.007 cents per minute

Are you fed up of Betamax increasing India calling rates every other month? Then you might like to checkout this awesome deal to make cheap calls to India at only $0.007 cents per minute, thats less than a cent.

Most of you already heard of IndiaLD. IndiaLD is celebrating 1 year anniversary and would like to give back to the Indian Users to wish to make calls to India. For just $.007 cents per minute, you can call India from their US access number. The only condition is you need to Get 5000 minutes for $35 (.007 per minute) to call India. That deal is for a limited time only, has a 45 day validity, and you must call through IndiaLD California USA access number.

Its important to note that there are no additional admin/maintainance charges for this package like Airtel or RelianceIndiaCall.

Additionally, IndiaLD has also launched a Pay as you go plan for people who do not call often to India and would like to keep the calling expenses on the lower side. You can now make calls to India at 1.5 cents per minute which also includes a FREE SMS to India and comes with 90 days validity.

Make your Christmas Special and gear up for the New Year with IndiaLD. I believe this deal is fair and worth the price if you are going to make significant number of calls each month.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

ConferenceBuster.co.uk Free Conference Calling Service for UK

Conference Calling Services are extremely popular in USA but people outside USA are not offered such Free Conference call services untill Localphone broke into this market.

Localphone (our favorite VOIP Provider) has launched Conference Buster Free Conference Room Service for UK residents.

Lets quickly understand how Conference Buster will work.

As you may know, Most conference calling services use 800 numbers or premium numbers which cost upto 40p per minute or even more for some 0840/0870 numbers if you call from mobile. This is where conference buster comes into play.

You can setup your conference room at ConferenceBuster and let attendees join the room via landline or mobiles phone in UK. The conference numbers are free* to call from UK landlines and mobiles using your inclusive minutes ((ConferenceBuster access numbers should be included in these free minutes, and should otherwise be charged at your provider’s normal UK landline rate)

How to use ConferenceBuster Service:

1) Just Create a free conference room
2) Now the service will give you the Access Number and Conference number.
3) Once connected press # to join.
4) You can also invite others to your conference room via the same page. Just enter emails and send them invite with Conference time.
5) All attendees must follow step 2 and step 3 to join the conference.

Please note that The number of participants is currently limited to six callers at a time.

Enjoy this free conference calling service ideal for small businesses or home businesses who can't afford conference calling equipments or paid conference calling services. Do let us know your feedback.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Fring now enables Skype Video Conferencing Support to S60 SmartPhones

Fring is again in acceleration mode after being quiet for a while. With competition popping up in the Mobile VOIP space, Fring still enjoys customer loyalty.

Fring now added support for video conferencing using Skype technology on S60 devices, the first time that the feature has been made available on mobile handsets.

Fring will now allow users to initiate and receive video calls with and from other Skype users, with support for mobile-to-mobile and mobile-to-desktop calls. The quality of the video is not HD but its the start of the Video Conferencing via VOIP applications on Mobile.

As we know Mobile is the next platform for innovation with literally billions of dollars are being spent to advertise and gain customers on the mobile platform.

Fring's Skype Video Conferencing can now be used by all Nokia X6, N97 mini, N97, 5800, N95 8G, and N95 users.