Free Skype Minutes

This is no doubt an amazing offer - "Free Skype Minutes", so we have posted it here for our VoIP for Bangladesh blog readers. The original post has published on Voip Deals Blog. Read it and enjoy the free minutes from Skype.

Free Skype Minutes

We have an exclusive offer from Skype for our readers.

Purchase $10 of Skype credit using this link and receive 45 FREE minutes. Once you have purchased $10 of Skype credit, simply submit your order confirmation here and we’ll send you back a voucher code to redeem your free minutes. Remember to accurately provide your purchase details and a valid email address where the voucher code can be sent.

Click Here to Purchase $10 of Skype credit
Submit your Purchase Details Here
Receive 45 Free Skype Minutes Voucher Code in email

This offer is valid till 12/31/09
And there are only 50 Voucher Codes to be given out. Hurry before they are gone.

All purchases AND redemptions have to occur by 12/31/09.

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Spokn Internet Telephony, Changing the way we speak

Spokn is the newest VoIP call service provider with the cheapest call rate in the VoIP market. This VoIP service is a product of Spokn Communications Pte Ltd. which is a Singapore-based Internet telephony service provider. The “VoIP for Bangladesh” blog is happy to bring you this news that Spokn is an Asian company is coming to Skype and GoogleVoice.

This new service allows you to call from your regular phones by dialing a local access line (available in more than 40 countries). With Spokn, you don’t have to pay anything at all to receive calls; this is no doubt a great offer in VoIP market. Spokn is a new generation service that is a true bridge between traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services offers the cheapest voip calls by use of landline, cell phone, PC, or SIP.

Click here to see how Spokn compare their services with Skype.

Let’s see what Spokn.com is offering us:

• Cheapest VoIP calls
• Spokn to Spokn calls are Free
• Free incoming from regular phones (access number based service)
• 20 seconds voice messaging service
• Cheap incoming (direct) number at only $1/month from 8 different countries
• Free Call Forking (through Spokn, you can receive call to any device)
• Call Forwarding
• Virtual calling card service with Call-through service
• Call Back Service (save cell phone minutes)
  

Price, how cheap the Spokn is?

“Our pricing would be a fraction of what other operators charge for local calls.” This was Anil, CEO of Spokn response, when one of the media personnel at the conference asked him a question about Spokn’s call rates. He also added that users can acquire local phone number for $ 1 per month within 5 minutes on the web. If you can see the image at right, Spokn offers cheapest call rates for those destinations including India you can call 2 cents per minutes. But for VoIP call to Bangladesh Spokn is still costly comparing to other services. We hope that Spokn will reduce its rate for Bangladesh market considering its huge home and corporate market.

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Feature Review

This service cannot compare to Localphone or Rebtel but they are trying to make stand with wonderful features like GoogleVoice provides, which is Call forking. This is new to the VoIP providers so “VoIP for Bangladesh” suggests you to take advantage of this feature. Call Forking allows for a call to be ringed at many phones. So you can pick the call up with whichever phone you want, either computer or landline or your cellphone. With call forking you can have all your Spokn enable phones to ring at once, a valuable feature for many people. It has a good call back service, so if your incoming is free then you should use this to save valuable phone minutes.

You can use Spokn from your PC, cellphone, landline, or an SIP softphone. You have complete freedom of choice.

Read the Spokn’s features in details:

Free Incoming from Regular Phones

Your friends and family can call you from their regular phones by dialing a local access number, (available in over 40 countries), and you don't have to pay anything at all to receive their calls. Your friends can call you using their regular phone with only local call charge by their phone company, and to call you they does not have to be connected to Internet.

VMS

Spokn's VMS is a 20 second voice message that you can record and send to any email ID, phone number or Spokn ID. Spokn to Spokn VMSes are absolutly free and so are VMSes to email IDs. From your Internet enabled phone VMS can be sent to another Spokn subscriber, to a phone, or even an email address for free.

Direct Number (Spokn Phone Number)

Spokn's Direct number lets you be just a local call away for callers in the country where you've taken the phone number. For example, you have to constantly be in touch with your clients in the UK and your in Bangladesh or elsewhere, with a Spokn phone number, you are just a local call away for them (your client). The caller does not need to be connected to the Internet. You will get the call fro free on Spokn over the Internet, whereever in the world you are.

Call forking (incoming calls ring everywhere)

With your regular phone service, you are tied to a single phone. To receive calls, you have to be near the phone. But with Spokn:

• Incoming calls ring on all the devices connected to Spokn. So you can receive calls on different devices like - your desktop computer, smartphone or a SIP enabled phone, all at the same time, as long as they all are connected to the Internet.

• All incoming calls are free with Spokn.

• Unanswered calls can be forwarded to any phone number in the world

• Spokn also provides free voicemail so callers can leave a message

Call forwarding

• You can forward incoming calls to any phone number in the world

• Spokn charges you for the forwarded call at the same rate as a Spokn call to the number you're forwarding to

• You can choose not to pay for the forwarded call by sending it to voicemail

Call-through

• Make Spokn calls using Spokn's call-through lines that work just like a virtual calling card service, it has call-through lines for 40 different countries around the world.

• For a Spokn call using this service, you will be charged only for a local call charged by your phone company

• You can make calls using Spokn using your cellphone or landline

Callback

• Make Spokn calls using your regular phone even when you don't have access to the Internet.

• Works from any phone int the world that can call a US number

• Is charged at two Spokn calls. One to your number and another to your destination number

• Makes an incoming call to your number and then connects you to the dialed number

Spokn is a good service to try. It doesn’t take anything special to sign up, takes only 60 seconds. So see how it is, you can give it a try, check out the cheapest voip service called Spokn and let us know your feedback on this blog.

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Unlimited VoIP offers starting to appear in Africa

This is no doubt a good news for Bangladeshi leaving in Africa, specially members of Bangladesh Army working in UN peace keeping mission in Africa's country. Unlimited VoIP calling are going to be appeared in Africa.

VoIP has been banned across most of Africa for a long time, feared by the state-owned telcos as a way for alternative service providers to bypass them with international calls, eroding a very lucrative part of their business. At profit margins of several thousand percent in some cases, it is not surprising that unlicensed operators have sprung up all over the continent, risking huge fines, confiscation of their equipment and even jail terms. Now the country like South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Botswana, as well as some of the more progressive North African markets nations Morocco, Algeria and Egypt are going to free it VoIP market.

Click here to read the full story on BuddeBlog.

Earlier we have reviewed a access number based VoIP service named "Free International Calls" from South Africa to call Bangladesh for free (click here to read the review). VoIP for Bangladesh is always in search of finding cheap and free VoIP calling offers/services for Bangladeshi leaving abroad, this is one of our effort.

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VoIP business in Bangladesh, great opportunity with Increased Internet Bandwidth

Two more submarine cables in the pipeline to increase the country's Internet Bandwidth. This is no doubt a great opportunity for VoIP and other IT business.

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has taken a move to connect Bangladesh with two more submarine cables through private sector initiative within one and a half years as internet-based services are often disrupted with the country's lone undersea cable. Entrepreneurs in the sector have long been demanding such backups.

Bangladesh was linked with a submarine cable in 2006 at a cost of $35.1 million. The SMW-4 cable has a capacity to handle 120 Gb bandwidth, of which the country now subscribes to 24.12 Gb.

Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd handles the lone undersea cable from Cox's Bazar to Dhaka. The country uses 23 percent of its capacity domestically.

With this two lines Bangladesh will get a strong backbone for its Internet bandwidth, that will open a huge window for VoIP service in Bangladesh and elsewhere as well IT Enabled Services (ITeS).

Click here to read the full story The Daily Star.

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VoIP in Google Chrome OS

VoIP Apps is built in on newly released Google Chrome OS.

Google released their Google Chrome OS (Chromium OS Open Source Project) on 19 Nov '09. So naturally after getting the release news, people would try test it. As I could not test the OS right now for VoIP support, I looked for others blog who had the same idea and tested.

I found the article written by Tom Keating of TMC in his VoIP & Gadgets blog. He has tested Flaphone, a flash based web application, basically a SIP based apps. In his blog, he confirms that it works well. He also got news that TringMe works on the new OS (It already works on GoogleTalk). I guess there are many others and any Linux based VoIP apps should run without much trouble. Perhaps need to compile a new. But until then, we know at least there are two VoIP Apps that works.

Read More: VoIP & Gadgets blog

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