Net 4, one of the leading IP communications provider in India, claims to have become the first ISP to launch 'One World' plan, offering calls to more than 40 countries worldwide in just one rupee. The company said that this is clearly a breakthrough in the VoIP market, facilitating voice calls from a PC to phone or mobile globally by using Net4 'One World' calling card.
In a statement, Jasjit Sawhney, Chief Executive Officer of Net4, said, "With 2007 coined as the Broadband year, we are all set to capitalize on it, and go to market with a New Year gift for our consumers. This offering will prove beneficial to not only the home user but also to corporates, SMEs, and the BPO segment in reducing their ISD bills by nearly 95 percent." "As a major call center destination, India stands to gain a lot from voice communication over Internet. Our 'One World' plan will be a cost effective solution for small BPO outfits where significant amount of work depends on outbound calls. Net4 has been active in the VoIP space in the pasters, by end of this calendar year we are looking at adding 1,50,000 subscribers," Sawhney said.
Net4 offers prepaid calling cards such as One World, Homeland, Gulf Gold, and Unlimited. 'One World' calling cards are available in denominations of Rs 250, Rs 500, and Rs 1,000. 'One World' card in denomination of Rs 100 is available online on www.phonewala.com. Gulf Gold is another product, which allows connecting with more than 150 Gulf and European countries at a flat rate of Rs 8 per minute. The home and SOHO users who wish to make calls to the US and Canada can go for Homeland calling card available in the denomination of Rs 599. Other than these end-consumer Internet telephony products, Net4 has also launched corporate products. These products include Unlimited US, UK, and Canada calling plans, and are available in different denominations to suit the calling consumption patterns of various levels of businesses. And in order to make a call, one can connect either by downloading a free dialer from the Web site or by using a telephone adapter instead. The process is that one has to log on to www.phonewala.com, download the dialer, and then enter the user ID and pin. Meanwhile, one can make calls to the following countries at Re 1 per minute. The call rate is applicable to all landline numbers. In six countries (with heavy ILD call traffic from India) - US, Canada, China, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong, one can call up both landline and mobile destinations at Re 1 per minute. The other countries which are included in the 'One World' plan are Argentina, Greece, Portugal, Armenia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Australia, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Malaysia, the UK, Czech Republic, Monaco, Denmark, Netherlands, the US Virgin Islands, Estonia, New Zealand, Vatican City, Finland, Norway, Venezuela, France, Panama, Germany, and Poland.
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