Unlimited voip calls to India is almost impossible atleast in current scenarios because of the high termination charges voip company have to pay. So please do not look for these fake offers which will either loot you or will make it unsustainable for company in long run. Best is to search for lowest possible per minutes rates which are around 4 to 7 (US)cents/min currently.
So another list of best rates(per min ) for cheap calls to India follows Read the rest of this entry »
Pennytel an Australian Voip Provider has launched untimed call offer from 01 December 2007 to 31 January 29 February 2008. Calls to India are charged 28.88cents(Oz) per call … that’s right it is per call not per minute so you can consider it unlimited only. Destinations includes mobile calls to India and many other countries. For more details visit their website.
Enjoy Unlimted Voip calls to India this festive season.
Edit: Date Extended till 29 February 2008
From past six month there has been a rather steep cut in voip rates to India. Call rates that hovered around 8-15cents/minute are now revolving around 4-10cents per minute thanks to increased voip competition among companies and also to drop in termination charges for international calls by Indian regulator called TRAI. Some of these operators with super Indian call rates are Read the rest of this entry »
Bsnl the sister concern of Mtnl is close to launch Voip Services similar to what Mtnl launched a month back. The tariffs are expected to be same as Mtnl with calling to many international destinations at 1Re/min. This move seems significant in Voip market because private operators have so far refrained from matching MTNL’s move , BSNL’s entry into this segment is set to change the market dynamics and force other operators to follow suit.
All major telcos have not ventured into internet telephony as they fear it will eat into their revenues from traditional mobile and fixedline calls.
Many of you might have read in news if ever interested in India Telecom Market that Mtnl has launched voip service in Delhi. Voip service was available before also however was moslty on dialer based platform while this one is sip based that is you do not need a pc for usage. Thus overcoming the major roadblock for usage of voip as pc penetration is quite low in India.
This could be a giant step in free voice calls as in India free local landline calls regime is still non prevalent. Mtnl said it will provide voip ata or adapters on rental basis and also on one time fees of as low as 1000Rs. While it need to seen that these ata are locked or configurable to any other provider still the cost of device is quite reasonable.
This sip based voip call was already being provided by WorldCom, AnyUserIndia and Net4India however all of them are small Isps with subcriber base not worth to mention. Mtnl on other hand has is leader in fixed line and broadband market of Delhi and Mumbai with subsriber base of more than 4 million FixedLinePhone and 5lakh Broadband customers. It clearly has niche in voip market and soon it would be joined by its sister concern Bsnl(service the rest of India except Delhi and Mumbai). Both of them with substantial marketing budget would make Indians aware of voip services which they think is limited to Yahoo/Msn/Skype only.
There are two plans launched currently Plan A (VoIP400) and Plan B (VoIP200) with 800 minutes SIP-SIP Calls free and 400 minutes SIP-SIP Calls free respectively. These plans are limited on number of sip-sip calls which are mostly offered free in global voip market. Also you are limited to voip2voip and international calls only as the current Indian regulation does not allow voip calls to be terminated domestically it need to come via international long distance provider with all the termination charges to be paid thus eroding the voip cost advantage moreover dids or incoming numbers can’t be availed on a voip line. This may be a major drawback for voip penetration however we hope that in future when voip demand picks up this regulation might be relaxed.
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