Convenient And Cheap Calls To Pakistan By Localphone
This has been a tough year for Pakistanis living abroad who want to stay in touch with their loved ones in Pakistan. Just when we were getting used to making calls to Pakistan at reasonable rates, PTA increased the rates which caused a huge disappointment. I have been searching for a cheap and high quality service for calls to Pakistan for a while. Last week I signed up for Localphone and I was very impressed by the convenience, quality and the cost (8.9c/minute) for calling Pakistan.
Signup was fast and easy. Localphone provides you a local number in your area which actually calls the number you want in Pakistan. Let’s say you are a Pakistani in Houston; you can get a local Houston number and that number will ring your home number in Lahore. You can specify the numbers from where you will be making calls (your home, mobile etc) and that’s it.
The Localphone.com website makes it real easy and convenient. I was up and running in a few minutes. A credit card is required to complete the registration. I have setup three local phone numbers for myself. Compared to the lengthy process of using calling cards, this is very convenient and the quality is way better than the cards offer.
I enjoy the convenience of making quick calls through a local number and the comfort of knowing that there are no hidden charges - all your call history is a click away. And you can earn credit by referrals - I have placed a link in the side bar so if you sign up through here you will be supporting the blog!
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The localphone technology is aimed at ease of convinience. By mapping the local numbers to remote locations numbers in one direction using standard backend voip technologies, the service takes out the computer and IT part of the voip world and puts the end users at the same convinience level of using standard phone (and hopefully very affordable local charges) to use the long distance service (at attractive per min charges) to a fixed number at your other ‘remote’ home.
The singular, one-way mapping is what enables companies like localphone to offer this service at a very attractive prices as they can map a high volume of users whose probability of using the service ‘fairly’ would automatically be very high. You can’t bug your mom/dad/wife every minute and you can’t let your buddy piggyback this service (as is common in unlimited plans to unlimited numbers) to a third person.
Tee Emm, thanks for the comment. The convenience is unrivalled and I use this service to call Dubai as well. It used to be a pain to find good rates for UAE because of Etisalat’s high termination rates.
No doubt above mentioned mapping has its own convinience but did you guys try betamax? They have many small companies and I found their rates are cheapest so far unless if someone here knows any better deals. Their rates are avaerage 3 to 4 euro cents to call Pakistan in addition to free minutes to many countries. They support SIP and user simply get convinience of an ordinary phone.
A note from Localphone:
“As of the 1st of September 2008 the Pakistan government in co-operation with the LDI’s (Long Distance Operators) in Pakistan have again pushed up the price of the wholesale rate. Back in May they set this at 10 US cents which was
shared between the LDI and the Pakistani government. LDI’s have used some of their share of the $0.10 to discount calls below this level due to market forces and this is why we where able to reduce rates earlier during the year”.
This has resulted in 0.9c/minute increase.
I have used localphone service. In start I was very happy, but after few days I realised that it is charging very wrongly. And costing me more than normal usage. See how they charge, suppose u call any number in any country and u got no answer , means otherside is ringing and ringing. they will charge you for the time you waited for pickup. Similarly if you call on mobile and if it is switched off, then ofcourse you would receive a message from telephone company that your number is not responding at the moment. They will charge you for that also. Now if you dial a wrong number simply any no of 4 of 5 digits , which has no meaning, every one can see and say it is wrong no, but see what they do , i call to a no something like 594332, they charge me 90 cents
What i conclude is that there system is immature and they have no support to listen to your complains.
Never use this company…
Hello, Muhammad.
This certainly should not happen with the Localphone Direct Dial service, and if it does you should contact us immediately and we will investigate and refund you for the unconnected calls.
We are a young company, but we are certainly not immature. We have a very talented team of Developers and Engineers here at Localphone, you can contact us at any time through the website contact and fault reports pages, and unlike many other calling card companies we also have phone support.
Please get in touch so we can sort out your problem.
http://www.localphone.com/contact
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