PennyTel New Billing System Updates

PennyTel made some huge news when it was offering unlimited free international calls including free calls to India during the new year season. A large number of people (a lot from this blog) made use of the offer and made account with Pennytel. Some must be continuing with Pennytel only for their international calling needs.

Here are some updates about PennyTel about its new billing system starting 1st October. PennyTel will be changing its billing process to a monthly prorated system, simplifying your statements and invoices.

(1) The billing periods of all PennyTel accounts will correlate with calendar months in the year (start and end on the first and last day of each month respectively)

(2) For those PennyTel accounts whose billing date is not the 1^st day of the month, a prorated amount (subscription fee/number of days in the current month*remaining days in the current month) will be calculated on their next billing date. On that date, they will be charged the full amount for the plan’s monthly subscription fee, but the difference between the monthly subscription fee and the prorated amount will be refunded into the PennyTel account as call credits.

(3) If a customer changes their plan, the billing period will be from the day the change of plan was completed until the end of the month. Plan upgrades will involve the customer being charged the full amount for the new plan’s monthly subscription fee, but the difference between the monthly subscription fee and the prorated amount (as mentioned in section 2) will be refunded into the PennyTel account as call credits. Any included calls, minutes and/or SMS that come with the new plan will be prorated for the remaining number of days in the month. Any included calls, minutes and/or SMS that come with the old plan will be forfeited. Plan downgrades will have their old plan’s monthly subscription fee prorated and refunded.

(4) Customers can change their plan only once per billing period (month). A second request will be put on hold and processed on the 1^st day of the following month. Customers are able to cancel the second request.

PennyTel is making these changes in order to make its billing system more simplified and effective. May be this way they can attract more customers. In the future, PennyTel is expected to revise some its plan offering some more free calls. I am again waiting for the time when PennyTel start some similar promotion offering unlimited free international calls.

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PennyData Promotion Extended : Mobile Data for FREE

Lately I have been keeping a bit busy so could not post some of the voip offers launched/extended in past week. So here I am sharing some the news which buzzed the voip world last week.

Received mail from PennyData/PennyTel that their offer has been extended. Below is the email which I received from PennyData about their promotion extension.

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Due to popular demand, we are extending our "More Mobile Data for FREE" PennyData promotion. The promotion ends on your first billing date after
30th October, 2010.

Example:
* If your billing date is 1st October, your promotional period ends on the
1st of November.
* If your billing date is 30th October, your promotional period ends on the
30th of November.
* If your billing date is 31st October, your promotional period ends on the
31st of October.

This is regardless of whether you are a new or existing customer.
If you are a new customer, you must sign up by the 31st of August, 2010. If you are an existing customer, there is nothing you need to do.
The way the promotion works is very simple:
If you are on the $25 plan, you will get 7GB of data/month (normally 2GB)
If you are on the $13.88 plan, you will get 3GB of data/month (normally 1GB)
If you are on the $8.88 plan, you will get 1GB of data/month (normally 500MB)
Additional data usage on top of your bonus data allowance is 8c/MB
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In the following posts, I will also share the other voip mails which I received in the past one week.

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FAQ : Making free calls using Pennytel

First Wishing all my blog readers a very very Happy New Year. This time of year, almost everyone wish their friends and family, the call volumes increasing to a great extent.

Well, Few days back we posted about PennyTel voip service and their new year offer in which it offered unlimited free voip calls to India and other 5 destinations. Many people have been sucessful in using this PennyTel voip service and have been making more than 3 Hrs of phone calls each day.

To bring to your notice that the PennyTel voip service is still working good, and you will be able to make free calls to India and wish everyone a happy new year. For those who were not able to make calls using PennyTel, just check the few points below and check where you were wrong.

1. You registered on the website "PennyTel" and received email confirmation with login details. Now you are able to login properly.

2. You filled your email address on the xmaspromo page on the pennytel website - Link.
Only this will entitle you to get free 10 M minutes of free calls.

3. You received confirmation mail regarding free 10 M minutes - that is SIP details. Now when you login to your account you can see the plan type as "Free access Plan (10 M Minutes Free) [ON your home page - when you login to your account ]

4. You have successfully launched PennyTel softphone : and it shows Registered (after it has loaded). (Check the Pin I posted in the earlier post).

5. To dial the number you dial : 919891XXXXXX (India Mobile) or (00919891XXXXXX)
India Landline as - 91 11 XXXXXXXX or (00 91 11 XXXXXXXX).

Your call should get connected now. But if you miss any of above said steps and probably you should correct it to make free calls.

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PennyTel : Unlimited Free Calls to India, International using Pennytel

This is about making Free international calls using Pennytel. Its the new Pennytel promotional offer, a Christmas and New year promotion by voip major PennyTel. When you avail this Pennytel offer, you will get entitled to 10 Million free minutes of calling to India, Australia, Canada, China, UK and USA.

Pennytel promotion is during the holiday season and it wont last for long. Let me put this in detail.

To help you talk to your friends and family this holiday season Pennytel is offering unlimited free calls to above said countries (India included) ( 10,000,000 minutes of FREE calls ).

Pennytel Free International Calls : 10M Minutes Free Promotion

This Pennytel offer is available to all new customers as well as old customers. So, if you have not signed up with PennyTel earlier then you can sign up now and make use of the offer. Again : Pennytel offer is for limited time, so make most use of it now.

PennyTel 10 Million free minutes offer will run till 2nd Jan 2010, or when you have used all your minutes (whichever is earlier).

Now Pennytel offers a variety of ways to use their service, use SIP or you can even use PC to Phone calling (Use softphone directly from their website).

I have myself registered for the service and have been using Pennytel softphone to make calls. The call quality (using the softphone is very good) and call lasts for as long as yo talk.

UPDATE : Please refer to the youtube video below to make free calls using Pennytel. Simply use Pennytel SIP settings in Nimbuzz to make Free PC to Phone Calls.




My review is very positive (considering it is unlimited free calls). So I would recommend Pennytel to everyone. This will indeed help you save all your money which you would have otherwise spent on wishing your friends and family "Happy New year".

Make most of it now, Share your reviews and please post your comments if you face any difficulty (We will help you out as we have been using it for making free calls). Signup with Pennytel now !!

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