SmartVoip : Betamax Provider offer Free International Calls (Cheap calls to India)

Hi,

There is one more addition to the list of Betamax voip providers. Smartvoip is the recently launched voip service by Betamax voip company. Smart voip rightly says that voip being the smart way to make phone calls and save on your phone bills.

Much similar to other betamax providers, smartvoip offers free calls to many destinations. I guess calls to USA, Canada, China, Singapore,Taiwan, Russia etc are free subject to a maximum of 5000 minutes. Actually, this is not at all any big deal as many other voip providers are offering the same deal (free calls to these destinations).

Smartvoip is at present offering calls to India at 1.9 cents/min (Landline) and 2.6 cents/min (mobile). Well the rates are comparable to Nymgo and Mediaringtalk. I have never ben in favour of Betamax companies, so I won't suggest you smartvoip (over Nymgo/Mediaringtalk).

However, Betamax companies offer SIP services,Pc to Phone calls and Phone to Phone calls to. Voice quality is also good. For this reason people may try smartvoip as Nymgo and Mediaringtalk offer only Pc to Phone calls.

Below are the SIP settings for Smartvoip. Configure your voip SIP adapter and make free phone to phone calls.

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

Codecs

G.711 (64 kbps)
G.726 (32 kbps)
G.729 (8 kbps)
G.723 (5.3 & 6.3 kbps)
GSMFR (13.2 kbps)

If you have audio problems:
Use a STUN server (e.g. stun.smartvoip.com) with port 3478 (if supported by your device)
Use the G.711 codec

Overall, a nice voip calling options. I request my blog readers to post their comments if they liked Smartvoip service.

Cheers.