VoIP Providers in the Philippines
At the First International VOIP Con 2006 in World Trade Center, I got to meet VoIP provders like Bayantel’s Sky Internet VOIP and Globe’s Globequest Webphone.
Let me start with the Globe’s WebPhone. They are the first to provide pre-paid card. The Globe1 cards are available from Globelines Payments and Services Centers, and from selected WIZ Hotspots. Globe1 is available in P100 and P300 cards. There is no monthly fee and you are only charged for the calls you make. International calls in selected countries like Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and USA.) are 4.50 pesos a minute.
Now the Sky Internet VOIP services. You will have to pay an installation fee of P2,999 (DISCOUNTED installation fee of P1,999 for Sky DSL subscribers!). Their most affordable plan is P 499 for 100 minutes for free international calls and $ 0.10/min for top countries thereafter. It assumes that you have a Broadband Internet connection. Recommended speed is 256 kbps and above to be able to do any Internet activity such as surfing/emailing/gaming/downloading and use VoIP at the same time. The sad thing is that only 3% of the internet population uses broadband or roughly 130,000 subscribers.
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