As we promised back in June we’ve been negotiating hard with our suppliers and are pleased to unveil our new rates for calls to Pakistan…
| Destination | GBP | USD | EUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Landlines | 4.5p | 8¢ | 5.5c |
| Pakistan Mobiles | 4.5p | 8¢ | 5.5c |
The new rates are effective immediately for all existing and new customers, so log in or sign up and get calling!
We’re pleased to announce that we have added local access numbers in Dublin, Ireland. This means that customers in Ireland can now use our direct-dial and calling card services straight from their landline or mobile.
Calling cards often use premium or national rate access numbers from which they get a kick-back, meaning they can keep their advertised per-minute rate deceptively low. Localphone access numbers are just normal local landlines, calls to which are often included as part of your landline or mobile contract’s free minutes! This is just one reason why Localphone is better than calling cards.
As of today, we have access numbers in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.
If we don’t have local numbers in your country yet you can still make great savings by calling from your computer with the Localphone VoIP service. We’re always looking to expand into more countries, so if you’d like to see Localphone access numbers where you are let us know!
On the 1st May 2008 the PTA in Pakistan increased the tax on incoming calls and mandated that all the licensed LDI‘s in Pakistan charge calls at the wholesale rate of $0.10 per minute instead of the previous $0.025 rate. When we first announced this we had many complaints from customers that other providers were not putting up prices to the levels that the above increase dictated so we listened and we did indeed find cheaper routes and were able to reduce our rate accordingly. We have however found it increasingly hard to purchase routes that not only offer a good price but also quality and I am sad to say that one by one these routes have just disappeared and today the last of the routes at the lower prices terminated service without notice.
Quality is our number one priority and we just cannot buy the routes needed at the quality levels you expect so we are now forced once again to increase our prices. I am truly sorry that we are in this position but all I can say is that we will work hard to offer a great service at market leading rates. With this in mind we will no longer attempt to purchase Pakistan routes from anyone other than those provided by licensed LDI‘s in Pakistan. This will not only ensure that the quality is great but the person you are calling will see your caller ID.
From 23:00 UTC Saturday 21st June our rate to Pakistan for both mobiles and Landlines will be 5.6p (inc VAT) / 10.5¢.
We will continue to negotiate hard with the LDI‘s in Pakistan to get the rate down and I assure you we will pass any decreases down to you immediately.
Thank you for your loyalty.
Paul Cusack
CEO
Localphone