Although my fellow blogger at ramakrompers beat me to this, I still think this is worth posting. Airtel is offering calling to India at 1 cent/min, which is ridiculously cheap. I currently use Reliable Calling, and pay 3.5 cent/min. The relevant fine print for the Airtel deal:
- It costs the same to call either landlines or mobile phones.
- Pay $10 and get 600 minutes talk time, because they charge $3.99 as rental fees. It works out to a little more than 1 cent/min, but it is still much cheaper than any other calling card.
- The talk time expires in 30 days, so this would work mostly for people who call India every day and talk for hours at a stretch! Any unused credit at the end of 30 days is lost.
- It costs more to call toll-free. The cheaper way is to use the local access number. Unfortunately Minneapolis does not have a local access number.
Let me know if there is any other catch, the offer sounds too good to be true!
7 comments:
Even if minneapolis doesn't have a local access number, you can dial any other local access number - it won't make a difference to you since inter-state calling isn't any concern for any of our cellphone plans.
It will make a difference if I try to use the land line in my office, instead of wasting minutes on my cell phone.
oh is it? I didn't know that you couldn't call other-state numbers from univ's landline..
Ada arivu kalanjiyame, if u can make long distance calls from the univ, then why will I care? Because you can only make local calls, thats why not having a local access number is a problem. Puriyartha illaya?
Airtel Callhome always come up with great offers and this is one of the best offer. I am using Airtel Callhome and i did not find any problem, this is realy cheaper than any other calling card.
Yes, this does seem to be one of the cheapest cards around!
To what i spoke to customer care yesterday, I was told that my minutes would carry forward to the next month and I wouldn't have to pay till I exhaust all my minutes...
I should re-confirm with those buggers..
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