Calleasy Betamax starts Access number in Pakistan to Make VoIP calls from your fixed/mobile phone

Along with PC to phone calls and SIP calls, betamax also provides access numbers in more than 40 countries to "Make VoIP calls from your fixed/mobile phone" 

Some service of betamax (click here) offers all the ways of making calls, while some are specific. 

Calleasy, one of the Betamax brands, is fully dedicated to call via access number which is the easiest way for cheap international calls because you do not need internet and microphone to make the phone calls. Just dial the access number with phone and you are connected.

In order to use this service 

• Make sure that you have registered and verified your number which you are going to use, your caller ID will be identified to authentication. 
  
• Now Call the local rate access number for your country from your home number or mobile phone and wait for the voice prompt...
  
• You can now enter any number you want, for India, dial 0091XXXXXXXXXX
  

If you do not want to double dial the number you can save the numbers in your mobile phone, you can use pause between access number and the number you wish to dial.

For example you use the UK access number to call a Indian number: 

Save the number as follows 0044123456789P0091XXXXXXXXXX and you never have to enter the recipients number again.

TO add pause, follow the following methods.

Nokia phones: Press * 3 times until a 'p' appears

Siemens and Panasonic phones: Press 0 and hold until a '+' appears

Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson phones: Press * and hold until a 'p' appears

LG Phones: Press # and hold until a 'p' appears

for other brands, refer the manual.

Right now they are offering access number in the following countries, which includes Pakistan. We would have expected India if BJP would have won this general election as they promised to offer Unlimited VoIP to all in their pre election agenda. (click here and read 18.) 

Argentina, Australia. Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, El Salvador. Estonia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

You can find these access numbers from most of the services, but some services like sipgate does not offer this service.

3G simply explained, which 3G mobile phone to choose?

3G is the next generation, after GPRS edge technology, mobile communications systems which enables the data transfer ranges from 384 kbps to up to 7.2 mbps.

Looking at the past, we have different version of G..,2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G and now 3.5G.

3G starts with UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) with maximum speed of 384 kbps, but usage different technology then GPRS. The maximum speed, so far, supported by UMTS network is 7.2 mbps called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) , sometimes known as 3.5G. Work is also progressing on improving the transfer speed with the HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) which could be known as 3.75G. There are different versions of HSDPA, which supports 1.8 mbps, then 3.6 mbps speed.

3G network uses different band of (HSDPA 2100 / 900 for Europe/Asia and (HSDPA 850 / 1900 for America).

With high speed, you can use 3G network to make video calls, VoIP calls, surf internet, watch movies, cricket match on your TV. Well its not free, you have to pay for it.

You need to have 3G enables handset in order to use it, please check before buying, if your handset supports 3G or not. Just supporting 3G is not enough, I recommend you to go for HSDPA phones for higher speed.

Like Nokia N73 supports 3G, but the maximum supported speed is 384 kbps. On the other hand, Apple iPhone 3G, Samsung i900 Omnia and HTC Touch Diamond have HSDPA 7.2. There are some intermediate phones like Samsung black jack have HSDPA 1.8 mpbs.

UMTS phones are available in the market ranging from 60$ to ...$, you can choose the phone as per your requirement.

Having 3G mobile and data plan subscription could reduce the cost of calls to zero.

Using DialNow from anywhere in the World to make cheapest call to India

Last time I published the blog about Dialnow offering cheapest call to India, one cents per minutes (60 paise per minute), but these calls are limited to few countries. But this blog will help you in making this cheapsed call from anywhere in the world.

Latest update is Dailnow has increased its rates from 0.010 EUR to 0.015 EUR, anyway still it’s the cheapest one. I hope within two months they will increase this rates to around 0.030 EUR, before they increase the rates, one can use this cheapest service to make a call to India.

Real way to call using Dialnow is the PIN Less dialing that is only allowed only from the registered phone. That will only work from the list of coutries supported by DialNow.

Now what if you make call from a country which ais not in the list of countries.

I have taken some lines on the FAQ section of DialNow and we will use this option

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Can I use my account when I'm in a foreign country?
You can use DialNow from any country we offer. You can find the available countries on the access number page. When you are calling from a phone which isn't registrated in your account, you have to use your personal code.For example: If you're a Canadian user and you're on holiday in the UK. You dial the English access number then your personal code and finally the number you would like to call.So be prepared when you go on holiday and remember the access number of the country you're travelling to and your personal number.
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So we will use this option to use Dialnow any where in the world and we will say it dial with PIN, it is similar to buying a Calling card and dialing the number.

1. Register your access number of Canada, so that you will save on 19% EU VAT. For this you have to select your country as Canada
2. Register with real Telephone number, because you number need to be verified before buying the credit, if you do not have any VOIP in number, you can have (Free US telephone )

Once you have the credits you are ready to make a call.

Now I will tell you three options by which you will not pay for the international call.

Option 1

(Those who are already using any Betamax services like nonoh or justvoip)
Use the free calls of to dial the access number, once you are connected, you will hear a message

“You are not calling from the telephone number you registered on the web site, to make use of this service, you will now have to enter your nine digit PIN code, to proceed with entering your PIN code press 3, if you do not have your PIN code in hand please press 4”

For making the call, please press 3 and Please enter your nine digit PIN code after the Bip.

Once your PIN is accepted you can make call from any phone in the world.


Option 2
(If you do not use any of the betamax services )
Then you can use click2voice for free, (click here to read more)
Otherwise you can use any other voipservice like yahoovoice or any (as calls to Canada are almost free) then the cost of the call would be little bit higher but still the cheapest.

Option 3
Apart from this you can always use phone to phone to connect the call, in this case if you are calling from japan to India you will pay 1 EUR cent for Japan and 1.5 UER cents for India, Total the call would cost 2.5 EUR cents per min, along with 5 EUR cents connection fee.

Comparison for other countries for option 3,
US to India: 2.0 EUR cents per min and 65 EUR Cents for 30 Min
Italy to India: 2.0 EUR cents per min and 65 EUR Cents for 30 Min
China to India: 2.0 EUR cents per min and 65 EUR Cents for 30 Min
UAE to India: 9.5 EUR cents per min and 2.9 EUR for 30 Min

I tried both option 1, option 2 and option 3, the call quality was best in option 3, very good in option 1 and for option 2 it depends on the primary service you are using, but for me it was very

Its very simple, Enjoy this cheapest call or cheap call or almost free call in this upcoming new year 2008.

I would be very happy if someone shares their experience to this blog by writing a comment or a blog. Please write the comments, I would be happy to reply if you have some problems.

Caller ID and Caller line identification with betamax, like justvoip, nonoh etc

This blog is not about making free calls, but I thought of writing it because it is useful to use CLI with betamax services like 12voip, Dialnow, Freecall, Internetcalls, Justvoip, Lowratevoip, Netappel, Nonoh, Poivy, Sipdiscount, Smsdiscount, Sparvoip, Voipbuster, Voipbusterpro, Voipcheap, Voipcheap, Voipdiscount, Voipraider, Voipstunt, Voipwise, Webcalldirect, voicetrading etc.

Please note that when I am referring Betamax means any of the above mentioned service that you are using.

This service is free from Betamax. You only pay the cost of SMS from getting the verification code in the case you add a cell phone.

What is CLI?
CLI stands for Caller Line Identity or Caller line Identification, this facility allows customers to see who is calling them before they answer the phone.
Just think how you feel when you receive a call showing Unknown number.

What is Caller ID?
Caller ID is the identity of the caller, with the normal phone or cell phone connection it is default, but if you are using VoIP softphone, then you have to enable this service and set your caller ID. If you have set caller ID as your phone number and whenever you make a call, your phone number (Caller ID) is transmitted along with the call and it is displayed in the receiver’s phone. If you have not set your phone number as a caller ID, then VoIP softphone will consider your user ID as a caller ID and will display Unknown number when you make a call using the softphone.

Yahoo voice, globe7 do not give you facilities to enable your caller ID.

How to activate your caller identification in your Betamax softphone
Goto Tools>>Options>>then click on the Caller ID on the side bar >> >>
Then you will see the phone numbers available from your profile and No Caller ID at the bottom is checked.

You can add upto five phones as your caller ID but you can have only one as a default as a caller ID, If you have not added any phone as your, you will see all the number blank and No Caller ID at the bottom is checked.

To add the number, click on the Edit my xxxxxxx profile (replace xxxxxxxx with your betamax provider like justvoip), you will see a popup window with customize your profile with your phone numbers. You can add up to five numbers in the list of phone numbers.
(Betamax used to provide VoIP-in number, but now it is no more providing it)

Once you will add the number in your profile, click ok.
Then you will see the number in the list of phone numbers available from your profile, and verify. Now click to verify the phone.

If you have added cell phone, you will receive a SMS with the code to activate

If you are adding a landline phone, a code will be displayed on the screen and immediately you will receive a call asking to dial your code, once you type the correct code, you will get a message; thank you your phone is verified.

Do not forget to uncheck the No Caller ID. Otherwise your caller ID will not be activated.

When you use phone to phone calling service from betamax, like nonoh, you do not have any connection fee, your number works as a caller ID, then you need not to set any caller ID.

Rebtel like services works on caller line identification, it identifies your line and the connect you call, you can save the money of local call charges by using the caller line identification. And then you can try the ten min free trial call from rebtel.