Thanksgiving is here and so are the festivities, turkey dinners, and good times with friends and family (read about the Thanksgiving tradition). However, if you are far from home and cannot be with your near and dear ones, a phone call is the next best thing. Depending on where you are located, the long distance...

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Price, quality, and service are the probably the most important factors influencing the choice of a VoIP provider. Providers such as Betamax (e.g., Rynga, Jumblo, SmartVoIP) do reasonably well on price and to some extent on quality, however, their non-existent customer service renders the entire value proposition useless. Blocked accounts, billing disputes, payment issues, and...

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While most VoIP service providers aim to target all the customers looking for VoIP services, research in marketing suggests that it is practically a very difficult to task to connect and communicate with customers with heterogeneous needs (different preferences). Firms are much better off segmenting the market into groups of consumers with distinct needs and...

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UPDATE (July 14, 2011): Miglu has shut down its calling services. VoIP, as a technology, has revolutionized communications. It has allowed us to be in touch with our near and dear ones without spending a fortune by allowing us to make cheap or even free international phone calls. Given these benefits, it is unfortunate to...

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CallARC’s plan to offer free international calls seemed like a dream come true. In fact it was just too good to be true. Lot of people questioned the ability of CallArc to offer free calls all over the world. The delay in the proposed launch of CallArc only fuelled speculation that CallArc will never be...

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VoIP service providers are aggressively targeting the smart phone users. Given the demographic profile of this segment, it is not surprising at all. Smart phone users have all the attributes to make marketers salivate – they are (usually) rich, educated, connected, influential, savvy, etc. The ease of development for smart phones and their wide reach...

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Launching new VoIP services is nothing new for companies such as Dellmont Sarl and Betamax. Between the two they have over 30 different VoIP services (see a list of all Betamax/Dellmont VoIP services) and continue to introduce new services every now and then. Recently, Dellmont Sarl introduced another VoIP service – CallingCredit.com. Today, we take...

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Mexico is a popular destination for international callers, especially within the US. This is not very surprising given the number of things Mexico shares with US (including a common border). Here is an option that claims to offer cheap long distance calls to Mexico.- MexLD. Let us compare and contrast MexLD with other options to...

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Today we review another new VoIP calling card service that is targeted towards users from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh) – PCO4NRI. For those who are wondering what a weird name that is, PCO stands for Public Call Office and NRI stands for Non Resident Indians. PCOs are the equivalent of...

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Here at TruVoIPBuzz, I am always on a look out for a new VoIP services that show some promise. The objective is two fold: Make you aware of options that you have, and Help young VoIP companies to get their feet off the ground. Today, let us look at another VoIP startup that seems promising...

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