Another free VoIP provider?
I just recieved news that there is again a new provider around: Internetcalls. Well, not an entirely new provider. VoIPStunt, VoIPBuster and Internetcalls are all a “service by Betamax” and use the same client, only with different color schemes and different countries to phone free to. I’m beginning to wonder if they are somewhat untrustworthy. I had paid VoIPBuster 1 Euro and recieved a free call-in number as well as a unlimited time to call free to certain countries. All was fine, except suddenly calls to Germany weren’t free anymore. And also suddenly, the minimum amount to pay to subscribe was raised to 10 Euro. It looks like the “free calls to Germany” thingy is just a teaser…
I’ll keep you informed if more of these clones pop up.
March 29th, 2006 at 23:59
The amount of € 10 is for 120 days, that is 8 eurocent per day….
You can call to a lot of countries for free and to nearly all other EU countries for 1 cent per min and no start up fee.
The VOIPBUSTER had been just a try out to see if there is enough place in the EU for a 2nd cheap VOIP provider.
The market is there and the service is caled VOIPDISCOUNT.
Some tech freaks are at the moment busy to create a kind of a voicefinder for VOIPDISCOUNT so you can leave your pc off in the near future and use VOIPDICOUNT just as a normal cable internet phone ( voicefinder is a kind of a mini pc with only the neccecary stuff in it to give VOIPDISCOUNT access to the internet, the voicefinderbox is more or less a kind of a ip sharing aquipment so it works separatly from the pc )
price of the voicefinder is plusminus €149 but if they introduce it….well this is a nice chance for developpers to create something like this for VOIPDISCOUNT users
March 30th, 2006 at 00:01
And for sure it is not a teaser that you can call for free to fixed numbers to and in a lot of countries, even to mobile phones in the USA ( since the 19th of March 2006 )
Go to http://www.voipdiscount.com
March 30th, 2006 at 01:32
The VOIPDISCOUNT is nearly the same product as the busrter but it has more extra’s.
You get a free inbound fixed phone number, yiou can chat and call to more countries for free as by using the buster apllication.
March 30th, 2006 at 07:24
Buster also has a free call-in number, and you can chat as well. The only difference is the color scheme and the countries you can call free.
And the “teaser” was referring to getting people from Germany and Austria to sign up, and later on changing the service without saying much. I really was surprised to find out that my call wasn’t free anymore.
March 31st, 2006 at 00:28
Changing tarifs is something that all VOIP ISP do.
The have to buy a lot of landline space and sometimes the price is higher so they can not offer 1 or 2 countries anymore for free.
Misusing is also possible but the only company that did this kind of teasing is Pilmo.
First they offered $ 0,02 cents to a lot of countries than the $ sigh changed into € but the price did not change, that stayed at € 0,02.
Than they increased the tarifs per minute from € 0,02 to € 0,04.
The normal tarifs to countries that could not be reached for € 0,04 ot an increaed tarif of 200% of the old tarif, for example, lithuania in 2003….€ 0,09 in 2004 € 0,29 per minute.
After discovering this i canceled my subscription at Pilmo and joined Skype.
Since Betamax started VOIPDISCOUNT I joined them too and i must say, quality, price and application satisfises me.
I mean € 0,01 to the non free of charge countries is not much, 15 cents to mobile phones is not much and no startfee, no hidden fees and even if you do not use your € 10 complete because of the high amount of free services, 10 bucks per 120 days is really not much, that’s 30 euro per year.
Further I diwcovered it is no longer neccesary to use 00 or + and countrycode anymore if you call in your own country, id this is only an extra service for those that had the luck to receive an inbound land phone number or that this is for all paying users….?
Next step for betamax is for sure the introduction of calling and receive calls without the requirement that the pc must be on line.
The Moterola 2400 is a perfect aquipment for this, if the softcell information can be used to configurate the 2400 than a subsriber can usea normal phone, plugged into the 2400 ( it is a so called IP sharing router ) and the pc can stay offline.
Better say: A VOIPDISCOUNT subscriber has than the same possibilleties as someone that took an expensive cable internet phone subscription plus he/she has all the extra’s if he/she uses the aplication on the pc ( chat, phonebook, p2p calling etc etc )
That;s something that I call innovaton
February 6th, 2007 at 12:28
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