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Call abroad on a mobile for ‘free’
A NEW service allowing mobile phone users to take advantage of bundled free minutes and call internationally has been launched.
The service is the brainchild of Bestmobilesaver.com, who plan to massively undercut the high costs mobile phone companies charge for calling internationally.
Aimed at those with friends, business contacts or families abroad, Bestmobilesaver.com will adopt similar technology to Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) services which allow people to make calls for a nominal sum.
Unlike Voip services however it will not require customers to be near a PC, but instead use their mobile phone to connect to the Rebtel network, which then routes the calls to countries around the world.
The system requires no special hardware or software, but requires users to visit the Bestmobilesaver.com website, register and carry out a simple set-up process.
Using the Bestmobilesaver.com website, people list the international phone numbers of friends, family and contacts. Bestmobilesaver.com then replaces each of the international numbers with a local phone number – removing the international element of making a call. This enables the user to call internationally through Bestmobilesaver.com for the price of a local call.
Mr Muthusamy says the beauty of the Bestmobilesaver.com system is that it uses the large numbers of free minutes mobile phone firms are being forced to tempt customers with to undermine the big profits they make on international calls.
He said: ‘The mobile phone industry has reached the point where the only way to get customers is to steal customers from other networks and they do this by offering bucket plans with fee minutes.
‘Each new mobile phone customer costs a network about £300 and they need to have a contract of £30 per month for the company to get their money back. The networks get back some of their costs through charging a lot for international calls.
‘If you look at the workforce in London and elsewhere in Britain, many are expats and a pretty big part of them don’t have a fixed line phone or broadband at home. This is giving them the opportunity to call home for a great price.’
Bestmobilesaver.com says its service will most benefit those calling friends, family or business contacts abroad and will not be an easy means to avoid the high roaming charges mobile operators charge Britons for using their phones abroad.
However, Mr Muthusamy says the firm will aim to create a future solution that could similarly slash the cost of roaming – currently the subject of an EU investigation.
Call abroad on a mobile for ‘free’
A NEW service allowing mobile phone users to take advantage of bundled free minutes and call internationally has been launched.
The service is the brainchild of Bestmobilesaver.com, who plan to massively undercut the high costs mobile phone companies charge for calling internationally.
Aimed at those with friends, business contacts or families abroad, Bestmobilesaver.com will adopt similar technology to Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip) services which allow people to make calls for a nominal sum.
Unlike Voip services however it will not require customers to be near a PC, but instead use their mobile phone to connect to the Rebtel network, which then routes the calls to countries around the world.
The system requires no special hardware or software, but requires users to visit the Bestmobilesaver.com website, register and carry out a simple set-up process.
Using the Bestmobilesaver.com website, people list the international phone numbers of friends, family and contacts. Bestmobilesaver.com then replaces each of the international numbers with a local phone number – removing the international element of making a call. This enables the user to call internationally through Bestmobilesaver.com for the price of a local call.
Mr Muthusamy says the beauty of the Bestmobilesaver.com system is that it uses the large numbers of free minutes mobile phone firms are being forced to tempt customers with to undermine the big profits they make on international calls.
He said: ‘The mobile phone industry has reached the point where the only way to get customers is to steal customers from other networks and they do this by offering bucket plans with fee minutes.
‘Each new mobile phone customer costs a network about £300 and they need to have a contract of £30 per month for the company to get their money back. The networks get back some of their costs through charging a lot for international calls.
‘If you look at the workforce in London and elsewhere in Britain, many are expats and a pretty big part of them don’t have a fixed line phone or broadband at home. This is giving them the opportunity to call home for a great price.’
Bestmobilesaver.com says its service will most benefit those calling friends, family or business contacts abroad and will not be an easy means to avoid the high roaming charges mobile operators charge Britons for using their phones abroad.
However, Mr Muthusamy says the firm will aim to create a future solution that could similarly slash the cost of roaming – currently the subject of an EU investigation.
