SmartVoip, ActionVoip increases call rates to India

Few days back we blogged about ActionVoip and SmartVoip the betamax, companies offering cheapest calls to India.

These voip companies brought a kind of revolution in India calling plans with offering call rates as low as .7cent per minute to India. But the betamax is known for the rate fluctuations and that is the reason many people don't prefer these services. Again the betamax has done same thing.

SmartVoip and ActionVoip have increased their calling rates to India. However the calling rate is still lower than 1 cent, and still these companies hold the title of cheapest voip provider to India.

Let me put forward the latest calling rates to India.

SMARTVOIP
India (Landline) $0.009 (that's .9 cent per minute)
India (Mobile) $0.009 (that's .9 cent per minute).

ACTIONVOIP
India (Landline) $0.009 (that's .9 cent per minute)
India (Mobile) $0.013 (1.3 cents per min).

The calling procedure remain the same, you can either make Pc to Phone calls or Phone to Phone calls using SIP. But the question arises whether you should continue with betamax or look for some other option.

In my opinion it depends, if you make less calls then better stay with betamax (buy the minimum amount, so if you loose the loss is less). But if you make lot of calls to India then choose other cheap voip providers like Nymgo for making cheap calls to India.

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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.

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