Indian telecom companies offering cheap calls to US & Canada

Seems that Indian telecom is now feeling the presence of Voip. With start of a few voip providers in India, calls to US, Canada and some other countries was very cheap. A lot of business started moving to voip for their calling needs. Specially the US companies in India make full use of Voip and save a lot on phone bills by making cheap voip calls.

While I was just surfing on my phone, I came across an offer by Idea (one of major telecom in India). The offer was you can make calls to USA and Canada for 1 paisa per sec. That's 60 paisa per minute, almost 1.2 cent per min. This calling rate is very comparable to what voip companies are offering, instead the price is cheaper then the voip companies. If you compare the price with the local and STD rates in India, then my local/STD calling rate is also the same (1 paisa per sec).

The time is here in India, when the local/STD/ISD calls cost you the same amount. This seems great for Indian telecom. The next thing to look out for is call rates dropping for other countries.

So for all our NRI living in USA, your friends and relatives from India can themselves call you from India.

Please share your views !!

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Pay Per Phone call : Tata Indicom

Indian telephone industry is big. Every telecom provider is trying its best to attract new customer and offer the best deal.

Since a large part of Free Pc to Phone call readers are fom India, we thought to cover a post on the latest plan offered by Tata teleservices.

Tata Teleservices has introduced a new tariff plan “Pay-Per-Call” for its pre-paid CDMA subscribers.

You can make local phone calls for just Re 1 and long distance calls in just Rs 3, regardless of the call duration (a maximum of 10 minutes). So this makes effective calling rate to 10 paisa per min for local calls, and 30 paisa per min for STD calls. These charges are also irrespective of calls made to mobile or landline phones.

You will be able to avail the offer by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly. Another good thing about this pay per call plan offered by tata is that you can send SMS at 50 paise, for both local and national SMS.

Few other terms and condition to be considered :
1. This new starter kit allows keep talking benefit only with the purchase of a new handset on the Tata Indicom network. If sim is used with old & used handsets , the default tariffs of Rs 1/min for Local calls & 1.5/min for STD Calls. Local SMS @ Rs1 & National SMS @ Rs 1.5.
2. As a special promotion , customers will enjoy an extended pulse of 3600 secs for all local calls for first 15 days from date of activation.
3. Keep talking plan is a stand alone plan & can not be coupled with any other special offers which has free talk time or free minutes built in.

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Virgin Mobile Free sms offers for Indian customers

Hi,

Few months back Virgin mobile launched thier service in India. Their get paid to receive calls service was the first of its kind in India and still it is the only such service in India.

At Free Pc to Phone calls, we try to provide users with best deals and help them save money. As we have many Indian readers, I guess it will be benificial for them to know the latest offers by different service poviders in India.

Virgin Mobile website is full of offers, some are really great. Virgin Mobile is now allowing users to send 200 sms free of cost, just paying for first three sms. User will get 100 local sms and 100 national sms free. Isn't it great..?

Actually Virgin Mobile is totally targetting youth of India and I guess they are quite successful in that. Their advertisement, color schemes, mobile phone plans, calling rates everything suits for the Youth. It has been found in surveys that Youth sends 6 times more sms'es than phone calls and this is the reason mobile companies bring special sms plans.

For the above said plan, first 3 local sms will cost you Rs 1 each and first three national sms Rs 1.5 each, thereafter you will get 200 free sms to any network in India.

Apart from this offers, some of the ongoing offers by Virgin Mobile include "buy any super hot virgin mobile phone and get three months subscription to Femina or Filmfare or Topgear. You also get 499 Local Minutes, 499 Local SMS and a lot more".

Also to inform all our blog readers Reliance telecom has launched their 3G service in India (with some great offers) and we will be posting about it on this blog very soon.

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