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If you have relatives or friends living overseas or you live abroad yourself, you will know it’s not cheap to call and have a chat. Catching up with the latest gossip or spreading some happy news has to wait until cheap rates apply or you have time to buy a phone card.
As long as you have a computer, VoIP companies offer perfect calling solutions, charging either extremely low rates or calls for free, depending on the destination. However if you are not internet savvy then you probably won’t have heard of VoIP.
You could always carry a phone card around with you. Phone cards involve pre-paid credit in which the card is purchased for a specific balance, from which the cost of calls made is then deducted. Once the balance has been used up, the card is thrown away.
But sometimes we want to call on the spur of the moment, are not at home near to our landline or don’t have a phone card with us. The most convenient method would be if we could use our mobiles to call overseas. We use our mobiles for everything these days. They are no longer a luxury they have become a necessity, a way of keeping in touch with our friends and family on a day to day basis. They can do all kinds of things, send photos, emails and text messages, but can you use them to call abroad? You can, but to do so would eat up your credit at a swift rate and this option is out of reach to most of us.
Well, there are actually some options available. One such option is to set up an account with a cheap calls provider who specializes in cheap calls abroad. Most providers supply services to every country abroad and rates are charged depending on the country you want to call and where you are calling from. Most providers only allow calls from landlines so it is important that you check calls from mobiles are also permitted.
If you look online you will find a few providers that offer this service. 18185, call18866 and 1899 and MobileCalls.net and Rebtel are all providers offering cheap International mobile calls. First you have to register your mobile number with the service and then you call a local rate access number before dialling your overseas number, it’s as simple as that. If you have relatives in Australia and you live in the UK, for example, this would be ideal for you.
The charges you should expect are the low rates for the international calls (if they are not free) and the cost of the local call rate. If you already have free minutes on your mobile then there won’t even be a local call rate to pay.
If you have free minutes available on your mobile these will cover the cost of the local rate call. You then get billed for the overseas call. Some countries are free to call so if your country and your friends’ or families countries are both listed as free, for example between the UK and Australia, then there is no charge apart from the local rate call. They are able to do this as your call is actually being directed through the internet and not through a mobile network.
Services such as these have many benefits. There are no fees to pay to start with, no line charges or set up fees to find. There are no restrictions whereby you have to stay with the company for a certain period of time, you simply add credit and once the credit has been used up it is up to you if you add more credit and continue using the service.
For you people with family in far off destinations this type of service will be dear to you and economical. You don’t need to worry at the end of each month when the phone bill is due or miss a call abroad because you are short on cash. Seek out cheap international mobile calls providers on the web and make yourself able to keep in touch more.
Michiel Van Kets provides article for Mel Yates who is the owner of Your Mobile Calls a company offering exclusive rates for international mobile calls from the UK. The company offers services such as Speed Dials and VOIP mobile calls.
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