Those in Singapore, make dirt cheap international calls @ 2.6 cents/minute

Now that I have posted few tips on gaining free calls using Rebtel. You can do more.

Get a new prepaid connection, at the lowest you need to pay only 8 S$ and the card comes with a credit of 10S$. Using this, you can make calls to Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and USA for mere 8cents/minute. That gives around 125 minutes. Once that has got over you may top-up using hot 100/happy 128 (details below), which comes with 100$ local call credit and 28$ IDD credit. Then register the new sim card with Rebtel.

Just pay 8$ and get 305 minutes Talktime.
or pay 34$ and get 530 minutes IDD talk time and 1250 minutes local airtime.

What else do you need?

Here I will brief each of the prepaid connections; you can opt the one that best suites and start calling.

Singtel hi!Card

Prepaid card from Singapore Telecom.

Features:-

• Cost for new prepaid connection : $8 (Including sim card)
• Balance in this card: 10$ (You read it right! $10 for $8; believe me its a country where we pay 12cents for local call while international calls are rated at 8cents/minute, leave it! that's another story)
• Free Incoming: No
• Call Charges:
  Local: 8¢ per minute during Happy Hour
  16¢ per minute during Normal Hour (Mon to Fri, 8am to 7.59pm)
  IDD: 10 cents to India (Free IDD calls to following countries: Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Thailand, USA)
  

Wait, you have few more perks.

Have you heard of Singtel HOT 100?

It's a top up for hi! Card

• Cost for Topup: 25$
• Balance:
  $28: IDD Calls
  $100: Local calls
• Free Incoming: Yes No - From July 11th
• Call Charges:
  IDD: 10 cents for first minute, 12 cents thereafter

For making IDD Calls from singtel, prefix 019 to the international dialing format ( country code + area code + phone number ), eg: to call a landline/mobile in malaysia, dial 019 + 60 (Malaysia country code) + area code + phone number.

Great deal right?

Now, register with Rebtel (don't forget to double your rebtel credit) to avail free 180 minutes air time for this new number you just bought.

Links:
Singtel hi!Card
Hot 100 Promotion Flyer

Starhub GREEN Prepaid

Features:-

• Cost for new prepaid connection : $15 (Including sim card)
• Balance in this card: 18$
  
• Free Incoming: No
• Call Charges:
  Local: 8¢ per min (1st min 22¢)
  IDD: Calls to India at 10¢ per min [Free IDD calls to following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and USA (states in USA only, including Alaska and Hawaii)
  

Similar to Singtel hot 100, starhub launched a topup card,

Happy 128

• Cost for Topup: 25$
• Balance:
  $28: IDD Calls
  $100: Local calls
• Free Incoming: No

For making IDD Calls from starhub, prefix 018 to the international dialing format ( country code + area code + phone number ), eg: to call a landline/mobile in india, dial 018 + 91 (India country code) + area code + phone number.

Links:
Starhub GREEN Prepaid
Starhub Happy 128


M1 M Card

Features:-

• Cost for new prepaid connection : $15 (Including sim card)
• Balance in this card: 18$
  
• Free Incoming: No
• Call Charges:
  Local: 8¢ per minute during Happy Hour
  16¢ per minute during Normal Hour (Mon to Fri, 8am to 7.59pm)
  IDD: Free IDD calls to following countries: Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, USA, Brunei, Canada, Macau, South Korea, India, Bangladesh and Vietnam

M1 too introduced the Topup card similar to that of Singtel and named it,

Super Top-Up

• Cost for Topup: 30$
• Balance:
  $30: IDD Calls
  $100: Local calls
• Free Incoming: No, but Get Free Incoming Calls for 50 days by trading in $30 worth of IDD calls, which is not worth.
  
• Call Charges:
  Local: No exclusive offer for this topup
  IDD: Get Free Incoming Calls for 50 days OR $30 worth of IDD calls/global SMS

For making IDD Calls from M1, prefix 021 to the internationaldialing format ( country code + area code + phone number ), eg: to call a landline/mobile in india, dial 021 + 1 (Canada country code) + area code + phone number.

Links:
M1 M Card
M1 Super Top-up


Rush 'n register with Rebtel (don't forget to double your rebtel credit) to redeem your free 180 minutes air time for this new number you just purchased.

Note: All the rates mentioned in this post are in Singapore Dollars unless otherwise specified

Last Updated: August 28th