International Calling: Neither Near Nor Dear

The appeal of VoIP is particularly strong for people who want to make international calls without incurring huge telephone bills.

The traditional names in telecom have always charged a premium for US callers to reach friends and family abroad, but people are quickly adapting VoIP calling plans to save. Researchers at Telegeography estimate that VoIP subscribers have nearly tripled from 6.5 million in the middle of 2006 to around 16 million at the end of 2008.

By 2011, Telegeography’s figures suggest one in five of all phone calls in the United States will be transmitted over the internet.

Quality is Key

World Discount Telecommunications has certainly seen subscriber growth on its VoIP platform, ALLVOI. Since 2008, WDT entered into VoIP with the launch of ALLVOI which is short for All Voice Over Internet.

Roman Talis, CEO of WDT and ALLVOI explains that not all VoIP services are created equal. “To provide an international service that is equal in sound quality to a regular phone, a VoIP provider needs to have a combination of its own robust IP network as well as agreements with first class carriers from around the world.”

Talis explains, “We don’t only use the public internet for our VoIP service, like a lot of other companies, so our customers are getting better quality than on PC to PC VoIP products. Once customers experience our high quality, they truly appreciate the savings of our unlimited international plans that offer 65 unlimited destinations for less than $25 per month. Many customers drop their home phone service to save $360 per year and only use ALLVOI. We also have plans which include up to 3000 minutes of calls to India per month”.

Home and Away

An added bonus of VoIP technology is it works wherever there is a broadband connection. ALLVOI’s customers can take their adapter with them anywhere in the world and can make international calls even if they are on another continent. Their friends can dial their US number, and the phone will ring anywhere they are in the world.

In addition, as Talis points out, “Calls between people on our network are always free so our customers could take their adaptor and call any ALLVOI customer for free. Or they can use our free soft phone and make a call that starts on a computer and ends up on any land line or cell phone in the world,” he says. “We also allow customers to use our network from their cell phone to drastically reduce the cost of calling international numbers compared to excessive mobile rates charged by most wireless carriers for international calls. Any cell phone can be used to dial our many US access numbers. ALLVOI recognizes the caller’s cell phone and anyone can directly dial an international number at ALLVOI rates.

Many savvy customers also buy the entry priced plan for $3.99 per month and give the plan and the phone adapter to their family that lives overseas. The overseas family only needs to have internet access to use ALLVOI. Once they connect the adapter, ALLVOI treats the overseas family member as if they lived and called from the US. US callers can call the family member’s US number and the phone rings in the foreign location. The call is free to the caller and to the family member overseas.

The world is affordable. Call just because you want to…