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‘Burning’- that’s what defines the current telecom market in India. Where BSNL and MTNL are providing one rupee plan for one india, MagiVox is offering free calling from one device to other for free anywhere in the world.
Business market is going global and so there should not be any difference in cost when you make an ISD call. The International VoIP business grew 7% over the previous quarter despite a steep fall in prices and the tariff war between operators.
Belkin India, the leading global provider of interconnectivity solutions across computing and consumer electronic devices, has introduced its new desktop and handheld wifi Skype Phones, which allows you to make free Skype Internet calls without having to turn on the computer.
With in-built Wi-Fi facility, these Wi-Fi phones will work anywhere in the world. A user is just required to have access to a Wi-Fi network in any home, office, public hotspot, or municipal wireless access point that does not require browser-based authentication.
Belkin has launched a new Google Skype phone designed for Indian market. In order for the phone to work, only a wireless router is required (available at a cost of Rs. 1500) at home or office. This phone automatically logs in to the Skype account when in a Wi-Fi zone. 
It also offers free unlimited calls to any other Skype phone globally and Rs. 1 per minute for ISD calls to any other mobile number.
Other features of the phone include storage capacity of 500 Skype and Skype out contacts. It has call hold/release, call pickup/park, muting, redial and call-timer display functions like in any other phone. It also has high voice clarity.
TCM Mobile LLC announced today it has signed an MOU with Ganton Limited to deploy a commercial cellular VoIP operating network in India. This will be the world’s first commercial network to utilize TCM’s revolutionary, patented telecommunication technology, and will be rolled out to an initial 500,000 subscribers with a project capex of US $300 million dollars. The specific operating territory is currently being designed and will be announced in the coming weeks.
Telecom Commission, the decision-making body for telecommunications, will take a call on allowing unrestricted Internet telephony in the country on Monday. Internet telephony will allow consumers to make STD calls as cheap as 10-40 paise per minute and also make free local calls from their computers.
Cellular operators on Monday fiercely opposed telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendation to allow internet service providers to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, saying it would be against the basic principle of level-playing field.
The GSM operators lobby COAI Director General T V Ramachandran demanded that there should be level playing field and that telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendations are against the very basic principle of level-playing field since they allow unrestricted internet telephony to ISPs at no additional cost.
Nimbuzz has launched an application to provide an all-in-one solution for free mobile VoIP calling, conference calling, instant messaging, chat and group chat, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber and ICQ, plus 23 social networks, including Facebook and Myspace.
Once users download the Nimbuzz application for the mobile and register as a new user, contacts from their selected IM communities are aggregated into a single contact list with icons indicating real-time ‘presence’ – which contacts are online or offline and from which communities.
“Everyone loves Skype (on the PC). But when it comes to the mobile, we believe we offer a better solution,” said Tariq Dag Steinberg Khan, the London-based Chief Marketing Officer for Nimbuzz. Nimbuzz works across all the major communities and on more than 500 handsets worldwide. With this news release, we now also have a genuine free mobile VoIP solution that works on more than 90 handsets including Nokia, Samsung and LG.
California-based Jajah, a company that deals with voice over internet protocol (VoIP), today introduced a cheap long-distance calling facility for calls from and to India. Although currently priced at Rs 3 (per minute), calls to the US and Europe will soon be made free of cost for users, claims the company.
Jajah is a simple way to make cheap calls using the Internet – without headphones, microphones or software downloads. It connects users phone-to-phone, landline or mobile, local or anywhere else in the world. An internet connection is only necessary to initiate the call. For the service to work, you needed to register at the website and then type in the number you wanted to call from as well as the number you wanted
Skype , the leading voip provider is offering SkypeOut calls to India and Pakistan for 50% less. All calls to either mobile or landline in these two countries will now cost 50% of their current SkypeOut rate. This offer is valid only from the 2nd of July to the 31 of July of this year.
This probably is to encourage the use of SkypeOutin those two countries and make it cheaper of Indian
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