The Localphone Blog

We are proud to announce that Localphone attended the ITSPA Awards 2013 in London last week and were announced as the winners of the Best Consumer VoIP category! ITSPA (The Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association), the voice of the UK VoIP industry, held its annual awards ceremony in the House of Commons last week in London. The awards were hosted by Dr Julian Huppert MP, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Internet Communications and Technology Forum and were presented in 8 categories. Localphone were announced the proud winners of the Best Consumer VoIP Award, beating BT to the title, which was announced as the runner up with Highly Commended.

All entrants had to submit a written case study and self-assessment, which were independently reviewed by the ITSPA Awards judges and Malden Electronics conducted two months of technical testing for three of the categories, including Best Consumer VoIP. Full details of the awards can be found at www.itspaawards.org.uk.

Paul Cusack, CEO and founder of Localphone, said, ‘It is a great honour to receive the ITSPA 2013 Award for Best Consumer VoIP and I am extremely proud of this achievement and recognition. It wouldn’t have been possible without the help from all the Localphone employees who have worked so hard to make our service world class, so I’d like to offer my personal appreciation to them. We have lots of exciting plans and product development scheduled in for 2013 and we look forward to announcing these to the public in the coming months as well as entering more categories at the ITSPA Awards next year.’

At Localphone we’re proud to be offering one of the best international calling services in the world. We recently received some great feedback from a new customer, Tony Shaw, who has given us permission to publish his comments. If you’re not yet a Localphone customer we hope this review will encourage you to sign up to our service and give us a try.

“A friend of mine wanted to ring her sister in Germany and I said ‘not a problem,’ so she spent 16 minutes talking to her sister in Germany and her sister kept telling her to hang up as this would cost her a fortune. My friend then asked me how much it had cost to ring Germany expecting it to be $30 or more and she nearly fell over backwards when I told her it had only cost 11 cents which is cheaper than a local call! So my advice is to anyone in the world who make international calls and have to pay national phone calls to sign up to Localphone. Find a telephone company that offers free national calls, then join Localphone and you will be amazed at the low price of international calls. Also the ease of not having to dial 32 phone numbers to get to a destination like you have to do if you are using a phone card. Another advantage I have found of Localphone is if I list all my local friends on Localphone I can find their phone numbers easily instead of having to go to the white pages or phone directory.” Tony Shaw

If you are a Localphone customer and want to send us your feedback to be published on our blog please send it to www.localphone.com/contact, we’d love to hear from you!

This month we’re running an extra special refer a friend offer for all our customers. Get £5 free credit by recommending Localphone this month. If your friend signs up and adds £5 or more on their first top-up by 31st March 2013, we’ll give you £5 free! You can recommend Localphone to as many friends as you like, just remember to tell them that you’ll get more free credit if they add £5 on their first order!

If your friend adds less than £5 on their first top-up, you’ll get 10% of their call credit each time they top-up for 90 days instead. Visit the website to recommend Localphone. Alternatively, if you use our iPhone or Android apps you can recommend your friends from within the app.