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Originally Posted by JPSmith
Old thread, same question......anyone know of a callback service offering a good rate from UK mobile numbers (in my case, an eKit sim) to the U.S.?
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If you can do the trigger via GPRS data, currently the cheapest by far is one of the Betamax brands
VoipGain | For the cheapest international calls. You need to first open an account there (by downloading the softphone on to a PC) and then you need to download the Java client onto your phone from
http://gsm.voipbuster.com and then put in your voipgain username and password into this client. You setup calls callback calls through the client, and it will require to transmit a few bytes of data each time. There is also an SMS way of doing this but I haven't explored that option yet.
Using Voipgain, the callback rates for this from a +447 to the USA work out at an incredible 3.1 US cents per minute! Plus there is a 5c call setup charge.
Worked out as:
UK Mobile 2c/min (Eurocent and excluding tax)
USA 0c/min
(From
VoipGain | cheapest calling rates)
Don't place your bets on that 2c rate to UK Mobiles (which includes the IOM ones used by Ekit) lasting for too long. On their other brands it is around 5c/min, but that is still cheap. USA is generally 'free' (provided you have topped something up in the last 90 or 120 days depending on the brand in use).
For a full comparison of all Betamax brands see: backsla.sh/betamax