Truphone 4.0 With Truphone Anywhere Released, Make Cost Effective Mobile Calls.

We have written a lot about truphone in the past, OpenSER Summit, First SIP phone call on an iPhone!, court case against T-Mobile in UK, but we now have some more news.
Truphone has reached version 4.0 and Truphone Anywhere is a part of it now. You can download the application or upgrade from the link given below.
The announcement gives us a list of benefits and cost savings based on where we live and they were also good to list the exceptions where ever they apply. I will list some of those cost saving comparisons below and also the exceptions.
So what is Truphone and Truphone anywhere? If you did not know, Truphone is a free piece of software that lets you make free and cheap mobile calls via the internet. As long as you have a compatible phone and are connected to Wi-Fi, prices are simple and low from anywhere on the planet.Now you can save money in even more places. The new feature Truphone Anywhere means you can make internet-rate calls even when you're not connected to the internet! That means over what ever the means your phone connects to the provider, ie like T-Mobile or AT&T. But the difference lies in the cost of a call. It works by making a call/SMS from your mobile to Truphone server, which then makes the long distance part of the call over the internet at Truphone's internet rates. This makes it especially good for making international calls.

So here are those cost comparisons;
If you are in UK and the phone is set according to the recommended settings;

Making a 10 minute call to an Australian landline based on the recommended settings above:

Orange:
This call on an Orange contract can cost: £0.50/min
So a 10 minute call at this rate would cost = £5.00

Truphone Anywhere cost: £0.00 (in bundle) for call to Truphone UK landline, plus a £0.03/min call to Australia. Total = £0.30

So Truphone Anywhere could save you 94%!

If you are in USA and again set the phone according to recommended settings;

Making a 10 minute call to an Australian landline based on the recommended settings above:

AT&T (Cingular) individual plan:
This call can cost you: $3.49/min
So a 10 minute call at this rate would cost = $34.90

Truphone Anywhere cost: $0.00 (in bundle) for call to US access number, plus $0.06/min call to Australia. Total = $0.60

So Truphone Anywhere could save you 98%.

and about those exceptions;

if all of the following applies to you:

• Your calling plan includes minutes for international calls
• Your contract still has some time left to run,
• You cannot reduce the size of the bundle (and hence the monthly payments) without penalty,
• You are unlikely to exceed your bundled minutes
• You pay the same amount for inbound and outbound calls when roaming internationally

Then switch Truphone Anywhere off.

Also

• If Truphone's rates are higher than special offers or international discount plans then even call-through in-bundle calls do not save money on Truphone Anywhere, e.g. US T-Mobile customers can pay $4.99 per month to get calls to Mexico at $0.07 per minute to landlines and $0.26 per minute to mobile numbers. Truphone charge $0.20 and $0.50 respectively.
• UK O2 pay and go customers topping up by at least £10 a month can get free calls to a designated country on the 'your country' tariff.
• Vodafone UK Pay as you talk to call a landline in Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Thailand, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan costs just 5p/min (10p minimum charge) for a 6 month promotional period. Using either call-through or callback would be more expensive. Customers who primarily call these numbers could use custom filters to use Truphone Anywhere for calls to countries outside this group.

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