Call India 80 Minutes for Free

Update (04th November 08): Voucher Code Updated
Update (14th September 08): Voucher Code Updated
Update (5th August 08): Voucher Code Updated

This offer is only available for new sign ups. So, carefully follow the
steps and enter the voucher code at the time of signing up.

1. Signup for the Rebtel account using this link(else you will not get additional 10 minutes)
2. Click on TRY NOW button
3. Fill in the new voucher code "ShanghaiDaily" (without quotes) (See Screenshot)
   Note: Voucher codes freepctophone, freevcalls, Shukriya, talktomom11, India60min are no longer valid
   
4. Fill in the other details (Use a new email id always) and Click Join
5. That's It. Make free calls; Register using all the available numbers and enjoy!

Update (September 17: Now what? Follow the steps in this post to get an additional 60 Minutes of free talk time to India... Can't believe? .. Try Out!, Its True!!!

Points to Note:
The code has to be entered at the time of registering (sign up) and NOT after sign up. When you first become a member there is a link below the signup box that says "Got a voucher code?" and that's where new users should put in the voucher code.You will not get free 60 minutes if you enter the code after you have signed up, it works only at the time of signing up.

Rebtel allows registrations only from following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hongkong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. If you are living outside these countries, try this trick to make cheap calls.


Note: This is a re-post, original post is here

Cheap calls using Rebtel even if your's is not a Rebtel Country - How to

You know, calls between rebtel countries are free. You need to pay only for the local part of the call.

How it works?

• A is living in Australia
• B in Japan.
• A wants to make a call to B, A adds B in his Rebtel account and he gets a local Australia number for making calls to B.
• A then dial B using the local Australia number for B, B picks up the call. A ask B to hangup and call to the number displayed in his caller ID.
• B does that, and here on, this call is free. All that they have to pay is the local call rates; and this is called rebtel smart call.
  

What if you are living in India or any other non Rebtel country?. Though there are tricks to call these countries for free using Rebtel, but if you need to initiate a call from India, there wasn't a way.

Don't worry, You can make use of this hack to make cheap calls to any rebtel country.

Are you willing to pay 60 paisa (1.4 US Cents) per minute for calls to Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hongkong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States sitting anywhere in the world.

For this hack, you either need a Broadband connection or 3G/EDGE Connection if you are using Mobile Data Plan or a phone with WIFI. If you have that, you are ready to go.

1. Signup for a Pfingo Account (you will get 2$ IDD credit for free and a free Singapore virtual number - 3-series)
   
2. Configure your IP Phone / Soft Phone (click here for configuration tips)
   
3. Signup for a Rebtel Account using the Pfingo 3-Series number that you created in step 1
4. Credit your Rebtel account - This is required as Singapore Virtual Numbers are not given with joining bonus; just a small sum of 10$ will do.
   
5. Add a contact in your rebtel account, you will now get a singapore number for making calls to that contact. (Assume that he is in Bahrain and the singapore number to call him is 31031013)
   
6. From your IP Phone (or Soft Phone), dial the Singapore number for that contact. His phone in Bahrain will ring and the caller id will show some number similar to +973 XX XXXXX.
   
7. He will pick up the call. Ask him to hang up and call back to the number in his caller id. You must remain connected; wait for few seconds and he will join this call. Call as long as you want.

How much does it cost?
At caller's (your) end :

• You are paying for the calls made to Singapore Number at 2 Singapore cents /minute, that is around 1.4 US Cents.
• From the point your friend picks up the call and hangs up (I'm certain that wont last more than 20 seconds), the call will be charged at the rate rebtel defined. After that it's free.
  

At callee end

• He will only be charged for the local part of the call.

Try it out today and start saving on International Calls.

Rebtel Countries as of 09 July 2008:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hongkong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

Make 140 minutes of free calls to Dominican Republic

If you are looking for 180 minutes of free calls to India, click here

How to Double Rebtel Call Credit to Dominican Republic

I love rebtel. They provide a convenient way of making international calls. Now they are offering promotions for new sign-ups. You can make more out of that promotion voucher

In this hack, 120 minutes of calls have to be made to Dominican Republic while the rest of the minutes can be used to make calls to any country.

1. Sign up for a new Rebtel account using your phone number, instructions can be seen here.
2. Sign up for pfingo using your phone number. You will then get 2 S$ IDD credit and a virtual Singapore number, instructions can be seen here.
3. Sign up for another rebtel account using your new pfingo virtual number (remember to use a new email address). This will give you another 70 minutes. Rebtel Disabled Bonus credit/vouchers on 08th July 2008 for virtual number registrations. So you won't
   be able to get benefits out of registration using virtual number.

Altogether you will get 140 for EACH number you register.
First phone number: 70 minutes
Virtual phone number: 70 minutes
and a S$2 balance in your pfingo account, which can be used to make calls to any country. For charges click here.

The good thing is that, you can register with pfingo using any phone number (it need not have to be in singapore) and get a singapore virtual number.

70 Minutes free calls to Dominican Republic

Public have been making lots of calls to India using the 180 minutes free calls hack. Now you can make the same to Dominican Republic too, 60+10 free minutes for each sign-up.

In order to get free 70 minutes to Dominican Republic, you have to register with Rebtel, enter the following voucher code at the time of registering.

The voucher code to get 1 hour free calls to Dominican Republic is -: "Free60DR" (without quotes)

The code has to be entered at the time of registering (sign up) and NOT
after sign up (See Screenshot). When you first become a member there is a link below the
signup box that says "Have a voucher code?" and that's where new users should put in the voucher code. You will not get free 60 minutes if you enter the code after you have signed up, it works only at the time of signing up.


Once you are done with your free calls, you can make use of the slashed price to Dominican Republic.

Calls to Landline: 4.9 US cents/minute (UP: 6.9 cents)
Calls to Mobile: 9.9 US cents / minute (UP: 14.1 cents)

Click here to Sign-Up

Enjoy free calling with cheapcalls.priyan.name . See ya!

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

Act fast - Free calls to India using Rebtel/Pfingo

Update: Rebtel folks did see this, and now they have disabled joining bonus/voucher campaigns for those registrations made using Singapore 3-Series numbers. Hope many readers utilized this offer. and I congratulate rebtel for their prompt action in fixing this, They took only one week for implementing and rolling out the fix. Hope you will consider the OAuth issue that i mentioned.

Hope, by now you are much familiar with the "Multiply Rebtel Minutes" hack. The folks @ Rebtel will definitely notice this and will stop this usage soon. What they could do is to disable registrations with the Virtual Numbers in Singapore, which are the numbers starting with 3. So, go ahead and get your credits now.

To Rebtel folks, I wrote to you some time back in April about OAuth. You did not listen to it. This was the content I posted.

Hi,

Why don't you use OAuth to access web mail address books? Asking users, their credentials of other services has some concerns; even if you claim that you won’t be storing users account credentials in your server.

Flickr's recent "add contacts" has implemented OAuth. You can also do that.

Priyan

and Efe from their support team replied

Hi!

Priyan,

I will certainly forward your suggestion to our developers.

Best regards,
Efe
Customer Service

But nothing happened. Rebtel is still asking for password, instead of implementing the API.

At least take some action now. This will increase trust on Rebtel, I guess!

Love you Rebtel!

Update: Wordpress to use OAuth

Get 3 Singapore Dollars worth of International Calling and SMS, Free Virtual Singapore Number - Only in Pfingo

Yes, you heard it right, just for signing up for this service, you will get 2 S$ worth of IDD, 1S$ worth SMS (Global / Local) and a free Singapore Virtual Number (Free Incoming) for each phone number you register with (not limited to Singapore phone number)

1. Goto Pfingo Signup Page
2. Click on Sign up now
3. Fill in your desired username and password and the details thereafter
4. Enter your country code and mobile number (This need to be valid as there is a sms verification for activating your account)
5. after filling up rest of the general details click on the Sign Up button.
6. You will get an email to the address specified as well an SMS on your mobile.
7. Click on the activation link which is sent to your email; when prompted, enter the activation code sent by SMS. Then click on activate button.
8. Now your pfingo account is activated
9. Click on the SIGN UP here now! link, login to your account and choose the plan pfingoBASIC 12 months FREE! (PROMO period: 12 June 08 to 11 Sept 08 only) - FREE and click on next.
   
10. Choose the number of your choice from the "choice number series" (which is free) and click next.
11. Fill in your billing address (which can be junk ;) ), click next
    
12. You will see a shopping cart summary with items pfingo basic and choice number and a total bill off S$0.00.
    
13. Click on Make Payment (No worries, they wont charge you)

That's it. Now what you got is a free Singapore virtual number, 3S$ worth of IDD and SMS. Enjoy free calling, mates. Don't forget to register using all available numbers that you have access to, where in the world it is.

How to make 180 minutes of free calls to India

In other words, Multiplying Rebtel Call Credit.

I love rebtel. They provide a convenient way of making international calls. Now they are offering promotions for new sign-ups. You can make more out of that promotion voucher

In this hack, 120 minutes of calls have to be made to India while the rest of the minutes can be used to make calls to any country.

1. Sign up for a new Rebtel account using your phone number, instructions can be seen here.
2. Sign up for pfingo using your phone number. You will then get 2 S$ IDD credit and a virtual Singapore number, instructions can be seen here.
3. Sign up for another rebtel account using your new pfingo virtual number (remember to use a new email address). This will give you another 80 minutes. #

Altogether you will get 180 minutes for EACH number you register.
First phone number: 80 minutes
Virtual phone number: 80 minutes
Pfingo idd (2$) to India: 20 minutes

The good thing is that, you can register with pfingo using any phone number (it need not have to be in singapore) and get a singapore virtual number. Each number in Singapore (Real/Virtual) will give you 80 minutes of call credits.

Want More?: Get a new sim card and make more out of that. Here is the hack!
# (Strikes)?: Rebtel Disabled Bonus credit/vouchers on 08th July 2008 for virtual number registrations. So you won't be able to get benefits out of registration using virtual number.

How did i reduce spending on calls to my Home

I am Living in Singapore and my Parents are living in India. On an average, i purchase 3 calling cards a month, which came around 27 dollars. Now i am spending only 6 dollars for talking to my parents.

how did i do that? read on...

Back in 2007 pfingo launched. Pfingo is a VOIP service from Starhub, an ISP in Singapore. Once you register with them, you will get a free Singapore Virtual Number.

They were giving away following features upon signup:-

• Free Singapore Virtual Number
• Unlimited Incoming / Outgoing Calls for 6 Months (Pfingo Pro)
• 15 Dollars of IDD (International Direct Dialing) and 10$ SMS Credit
• Referral Vouchers
• Free Incoming Calls on Virtual Number

(you will fall back to pfingo Basic (12 Months validity) after the 6 months of pfingo pro trial)

That promotion got over and currently they are offering

• Free Singapore Virtual Number
• pfingo basic trial for 12 Months
• 2 Dollars of IDD and 1$ SMS Credit
• Free Incoming on Virtual Number
  

pfingo is a SIP based service and its compatible with most VOIP devices.

It was an amazing offer on itself. I registered with all the available numbers I and my dear ones had and used up that credit.

After eating up all my IDD credits, i bought a VOIP Phone (snom 300) and installed it in my home back in India. I configured the SIP Identities and it worked like a charm. For the next 6 Months, my parents where calling me for free.

Lets see how much i saved on International Calling.

Total Damage:
snom 300 :- 190 S$

Total Savings:

Calling Card Usage per Month just for the calls to my Home: 27 S$
Total in 6 Months: 162$

Expense reduced by 40% within 6 Months and that was an investment on itself.

Now i am spending mere 6S$ instead of 30S$ per month.

That was a great deal! and now i am topping up my pfingo basic account and will continue using that unless they increase the price.

Calls to Singapore, whether its landline or Mobile, pfingo charge at 2 Singapore Cents / Minute. (They where charging only 1 Cent / Minute until April 2008)

Want further Savings?

Incoming Calls are Free

• Ask your Mom to power up the phone
• Call the pfingo virtual number. Your IP phone back in India will ring and you can talk forever

Calls Between Pfingo Numbers are free

• Get another IP Phone / Use the Soft Phone

If you have broadband back @ ur home, just get an IP Phone and start saving on your International Calls.

Moreover, this service is legal. There are other SIP providers which offers cheap calls to US/Thailand/Australia and other destinations. If you have friends/relatives over there, configure that SIP in the phone and happily call them thereafter.

Pfingo SIP Settings

SIP Server: sip.pfingo.com
Username/DisplayName - Enter your pfingoTALK number (e.g. 31050000)
Password/Pin - Enter your PIn (can obtain it from talk.pfingo.com)

Configuring pfingo on

Snom 300

1) Open the Snom 300 web configuration page (eg: http://192.168.1.1)

2) Click on Setup -> Identity 1

3) Fill in the pfingo sip details

Display name: Enter your pfingoTALK number (e.g. 31050000)
Account: Enter your pfingoTALK number
Password: Enter your pfingoTALK pin
Registrar: sip.pfingo.com
Outbound Proxy: sip.pfingo.com
Authentication Username: Enter your pfingoTALK number
Display Text: Enter your pfingoTALK number

4) Click on Save

5) Click on re-register

6) Now you will see your pfingo number in the phone's LCD screen and you are ready to call.

for any further configuration reference, go through the snom 300 user manual and documentation.

Snom 300 Manual:

Data Snom300 en v130

Snom 300 can be purchased from Bymacht in Singapore, India and Dubai.

SJPhone

1. Download and Install SJPhone
   
2. Run the Application
3. Goto Menu-> Options-> Profiles (Tab)
   
4. Press New to Create a new profile. Profile Name: pfingo Leave the rest fields default and click ok
   
5. Goto SIP Proxy Tab Domain/Realm: sip.pfingo.com Check (Click/Tick) "Use Outbound Proxy" Proxy(URI):sip.pfingo.com
   
6. Goto STUN Check "Use discovered addresses in SIP"
   
7. Press OK to save the profile.
   
8. When Prompted Enter Account: 31050000 Password: xxxxxx
   
9. Press OK You will see the registration status in the dialer... When it shows registered, dial the singapore number without the country code. Or if its showing some error... "Not Registered", your firewall is blocking the VOIP session.

X-Lite

1. Download and Install X-Lite
   
2. Run X-Lite,
3. Right-Click, Sip account settings -> Add
   Display Name - Enter your pfingoTALK number (e.g. 31050000)
   User Name - Enter your pfingoTALK number
   Password - Enter your pfingoTALK PIN (e.g. 123456)
   Authorization User Name - Enter your pfingoTALK number
   Domain - Enter "sip.pfingo.com"
   For Domain Proxy settings, "check" - Register with domain and receive incoming calls
   Set Outbound Proxy via - Choose "Target Domain"
   
4. Leave the rest of the settings as they are and you will be good to go!
   

If you have any trouble using pfingo, i will be glad to assist you. Post your queries in the comment section.