Cheap Phone calls to India, China and worldwide by MediaRingTalk

Almost a year ago we blogged about MediaRingTalk soft phone that lets you make free calls to USA. The phone calls were to be originated from a pc making it a VoIP solutions offering free pc to phone calls. Moreover, the free phone calls were capped at 10 minutes per call. They have now launched four new offers to satiate your local as well as international calling needs.

New Competitive offers by MediaRingTalk

Mediaringtalk has added these four plans to their offerings at a decent price. The prices are not the cheapest, they are dirt cheap though, besides the service being pc to phone calling one. On the sunny side there is no long term contract or connection fee for any of the available four plans. Our team in India has reported the call quality to be invariably good since our inception last year.
Without much ado we will move to the details of these plans.

Plan 1: Unlimited phone calls to 40 countries

This plan offers unlimited calls to 40 countries for just $9.99 per month. The list of countries include Argentina, Denmark, Ireland, Peru, South Korea, Australia, France, Israel, Poland, Spain, Begium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Canada(Mobile included), Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico (Mobile included), Taiwan, Chile, Guam, Mexico, Romania, Thailand (Mobile included), China(Mobile included), Hong Kong(Mobile included), Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, Croatia, Hungary, New Zealand, Singapore (Mobile included), UK, Cyprus, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia and USA (Mobile included).

The usual conditions are:

Calls to landlines only are free for all the above countries.

For countries marked with " * " or "Mobile included" – both calls to landlines & mobile are included in the plan

Mexico – Only Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara landlines included

Poland – Excludes Warsaw

Russia – Only Moscow and St. Petersburg landlines

For few of the countries, only calls to landlines in select cities are included.

Plan 2: Unlimited phone calls to 60 countries

This plan offers unlimited calls to 60 countries including China and India among others for $19.99 per month. List of countries include: Andorra, Cololmbia(Bogota only), Iceland, Malta, Slovekia, Argentina, Crotia, India(Mobile included), Mexico**, Slovenia, Australia, Cyprus, Indonesia(Jakarta only), Monaco, South Africa, American Virgin Islands, DENMARK, Iraq(Baghdad only), Netherlands, South Korea, Austria, Dominican Republic, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Bahamas, Estonia, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Bahrain, FRANCE, Italy, Peru, Switzerland, Belgium, Georgia, Japan, Poland***, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, Jordan (Aman only), Portugal, Thailand (Mobile included), Brueni, Greece, Luxemborg, Puerto Rico (Mobile included), Turkey, Canada (Mobile included), Guam, Macau, Romania, UK, Chile (Excludes Easter Island), Hong Kong (Mobile included), Macedonia, Russia****, USA (Mobile included), China (Mobile included), Hungary, Malaysia (Mobile included), Singapore (Mobile included)

The same conditions as above are valid here too.

Plan 3: Call India 750 minutes

This plan offers you 750 minutes of phone calls to any Landline or mobile in India for just $9.99 per month. Let us save you some brain cycles by doing little maths for you. The effective call rate will come about 1.33 cents per minute.

Plan 4: 750 minutes to India and USA

This plan made us chuckle a little. With Google Voice with SipGate hack that we posted, who would want to opt for a paid pc to phone call service? Anyways, this plan offers 750 minutes of calls to anywhere in India or USA for $12.99 per month. We do not recommend this as you do not need such plan to call USA and for India plan 3 is anyways there.

Fair Use Policy

There is a fair use policy that applies to all the above plans. Lest they come after us with their legal team we will paste the text from their website:

Calls to landlines and mobiles (select countries only) are included in your subscription are subject to a fair usage limit of 2,000 minutes per account per month (30 days billing cycle) for the Dial the World – $9.99 Unlimited Plan to 40 countries, and 3,000 minutes per account per month (30 days billing cycle) for the Dial the World – $19.99 Unlimited Plan to 60 countries (including India).

Calling a unique number: 10 calls/hour, maximum of 25/day.

Calling the same number: 10 calls/hour, maximum of 20/day. (This applies only if you call the same number.)

Total number of calls: 20 calls/hour, max of 40/day.

Duration: Maximum of 3 hours of calling a day.

For avoidance of doubt, even if your subscription includes more than one country, this is still the total amount of minutes allowed per month on your account, and is not a separate limit for each country.

Once these limits are exceeded MediaRing.com, Inc.,

For users with prepaid balance will be charged normal rates for any additional minutes used

For users with no balance, their account will be put on-hold temporarily till the start of the next billing cycle

Subscriptions are for individual use only. Each subscription is to be used by one person only and is not to be shared with any other user (whether via a PBX, call centre, computer or any other means).