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Having a voip phone service doesn’t only saves money, it also brings freedom to travel.  If you travel or move to a different place, you move with your phone. Your phone is available upon plugging the voip adapter to a high speed internet connection. You can travel out of the country and still have your phone number with you.

Some voip providers like Vonage, Voip.com, Skype¹ offer soft phone service. A soft phone is a piece software you download to your PC/Laptop and use it to make an receive calls from a computer. No need to carry your voip adapter with you while traveling, if your provider offers a soft phone and you are carrying your laptop, one less thing to carry.

¹Skype offers only a soft phone service.

Vonage’s Vonage world Plan now offers FREE UNLIMITED calls to 60 countries plus unlimited calls in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. The countries that made it to free 60 countries list are India, Mexico, Argentina, China among many others. Many countries in the list also include calls to cell phones which is an added benefit.

There is no price change. It still costs $25.99/month after the promotional offer of 1st 6 months at $14.99/month.

This is a great offer, an absolutely great offer. Countries like India, China and Mexico being in the list makes it very attractive to a wide demographics of  callers in the US who bear additional expenses to call friends and families at home.

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Other Voip Providers with Comparable India, China Calling Plans

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Just wanted to bring it to our readers attention is that gotvmail has undergone a name change recently and Grasshopper is the new name.

Grasshopper’s Virtual Phone System works just like large company phone systems, but is designed specifically for on-the-go entrepreneurs. Any small business can sound more professional and streamline its communications by creating a virtual office that connects callers to employees wherever they are, on any type of phone – home, office, VoIP, or mobile. Customizable for 1 or more employees, Grasshopper requires no equipment to purchase, is easily managed online, and starts at only $9.95 a month.

Read a  detailed Grasshope Review.

Intalk offers a business voip phone service that’s great for both residential customers as well as small businesses and SOHO.

Some of the features the plan offers are aimed toward small businesses, but are ok to have on residential plans too.

Features like simultaneous ring (rings your cell phone, office phone and home phone together), Find Me, Follow Me, Visual Voicemail, Click to Call (have a button on your blog/web site for users to click and call you), Call Hold. Plus you get all the regular features like Call Waiting, Caller Id,  Voicemail to Email, E911 and last but not the list UNLIMITED CALLING.

InTalk has two payment options for the same plan. The InTalk yearly payment plan is $195 a year, paid yearly and the monthly payemnt plan is $19.95/month. Both are affordable plans and are similar to or lower than other voip pland offered by Vonage, PhonePower, Lingo and others.

Pingo is offering half rate for the next two months on all calls made to India on Wednesday’s. This is on top of their already lowered rate of 2.95¢/minute. On wednesday your calls to India will be 1.5¢/minute. Its really a very low rate. Plus Pingo offers very good call quality. There is no contracts or hidden fees. There is a monthly maintenance fee of .98¢.

Why you shd give Pingo a try:

1. Low rates, of course (2.9¢ regular rate and 1.5¢ on wednesdays for two moths)
2. $5 free minutes  when you sign up with $10 card  or $10 free minutes  when you sign up with $20 card
3. Pinless Dailing
4. Speed dialing (upto 25 numbers can be set up in your account)
5. No Contract
6. If you use Reliance or any other service to call India, give it a try, you will see the difference. And you are getting upto $10 free minutes for trying.
7. Cancel any time, there is no catch, no contract

Other India Calling Card services.

Vonage Offers a premium voip plan called Vonage Pro to cater to the road warriors, people on the go. The Vonage Pro plan offers all the features that come with the Vonage Premium Unlimited residential plan plus the following added features.

1. Vonage Companion which is soft phone application one can run on a pc or laptop to make and receive calls.
2. 25 Visual Voice mails
3. 25 free 411 calls

The cost is $34.99/month which is 10 dollars more per month than the  Vonage Premium Unlimited residential plan. Whether the extra cost ($10) is justifiable for the three extra features, of which the soft phone feature may be the only feature worth paying for. The Vonage Companion soft phone does offer some advantages. You carry your phone with you.  You can make and receive calls from any where you can connect to the internet.

From a price perspective, let’s compare Vonage Companion with Skype, a very popular soft phone service. With Skype to make unlimited calls in the US you will need the Skype Out which costs $2.95/month. To receive calls you will need a Skype online number which costs $30/year (when combined with Skype Out) or around $2.50/month. Together it will cost you $5.45/month, slightly less that the $10 extra that Vonage Pro Plan cost. But with Vonage, you have one number. With Vonage at home and Skype when on the road, you have to juggle two phone numbers.

PhonePower rotates its voip unlimited plan offer at different price points and at diffrent contract terms to make it easy for consumers with different needs. Some consumers want a slightly lesser priced plan, some like additional free service.  They had their 1 Year Free service offer with the unlimited 1 Year call plan going on for some time. This offer is going to end in 5 days per the PhonePower.com web site.