Call China From Your Car

You need to make an overseas call and now’s the right time. But you’re sitting in a parking lot far away from your home base. What do you do? Why, simply pull out your cell phone and use your TEL3 app. You’ll be talking to your party in China for just a penny a minute.

Whoa! Can you actually make international calls on your cell phone cheaper than on a landline?

Yes, you can if you have the right international long distance service. In fact, with the service I’m going to discuss, you can make cheap international calls from any phone you happen to be at.

The service is TEL3Advantage and you don’t need to change your current long distance service to use it. This is an add-on service known as an international dial-around. Think of it as an app for your phones. In fact, for many cell phones there is an actual app you can download. There’s a special TEL3Dialer for iPhone and a Smartplug for other cell phones.

Actually, the apps just make the service a bit easier to use. As with any dial-around, you call a special access number to connect to the service. Then you dial the party you wish to speak with. It’s something like using a calling card, but without the paper calling card and without the need to enter any pin numbers. What the apps do is make the process completely transparent. All you do is dial the international number you want and the app takes care of making the connection.

Now what’s that about a penny per minute? That’s the special introductory rate to call China. After 30 days you pay just 1.8 cents a minute as the regular rate. Why, I’ll bet your landline long distance service charges more than that to call the next state.

This service works from the USA or Canada and allows you to call worldwide at rates much lower than you’d expect. You can dial the access number from any phone, such as your office landline, home phone, hotel phone, or your cell phone. You’ll be using cellular minutes when using your cellphone, but the cost of calling overseas will be at the low per minute rates from TEL3Advantage. Did you know that if you try to make an international call from most cell phones, it either won’t go through or you’ll be charged a huge premium?

Don’t be cut off from family, friends and business colleagues overseas. You can call them anytime at super low rates. You get high call quality, no contracts or obligations, online account management, ability to make calls directly from your address book and even free minutes as a bonus when you sign up. Interested? Learn more and sign up now for your free minutes from TEL3Advantage International Long Distance Service.

Profit From The Bandwidth Price Wars

There's a war underway, but it's not any of the ones you hear about on TV. This is a price war and it's all about commercial bandwidth. Far from getting hurt in the battle between carriers, you can be the one who profits from their skirmishing.

What's causing all this upset in what was once a staid and uncompromising telecommunications industry? Competition, that's what!

The competitive landscape shifted with the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, which allowed other companies to provide telephone service. Competitive long distance service, starting with companies like Sprint & MCI and more recently Opex, PNG, Pioneer, IBNtel, Covista and Total Call International let both businesses and consumers save money on their long distance calls while retaining their local phone service.

Two changes in technology have accelerated the advantages of competitive service providers. First is the introduction of VoIP that uses packet switched digital transmission over the Internet or private IP network instead of analog copper pair connections. The other is private regional and national fiber optic networks that can connect businesses without having to lease last mile connections from the incumbent local telephone companies.

These developments have resulted in a lot more competitors entering the lucrative telephone and Internet service marketplace. They also provide bandwidth in the form of T1 lines, SONET fiber optic services, MPLS networks, SIP trunking and Metro Ethernet. T1 and SONET offerings directly compete with similar telco offerings. SIP trunking, MPLS networks and Metro Ethernet are new on the scene and look to replace the older technologies completely.

All of these competitors, dozens in fact, have given businesses a mind boggling array of service options. They've also fueled the bandwidth war that has cut prices on many once prohibitively expensive telecom services down to levels that small, medium and larger companies can readily afford. It's not uncommon to find that the price of a T1 line or DS3 bandwidth has dropped by half or more since that service was first leased only a few years ago. Other options, such as Ethernet over Copper, can offer higher bandwidths, such as 3, 5, 10 or 45 Mbps at rates per Mbps that are mere fractions of what they would be with traditional line pricing.

This wealth of opportunity has resulted in one major dilemma, however. How can you be sure that you are getting the best rates when you are only familiar with a few of the possible suppliers? The answer to that is a telecom brokerage service that lets you enter a query online at any time and even get instant online quotes for T1 and similar line services. Consultants are available to handle queries for higher bandwidth services and special needs such as connecting multiple locations. All of this comes at no charge to the inquirer.

This rapidly expanding competitive landscape means that you can probably save on all of your voice and data communications needs. There's only one way to find out. Check the latest competitive telecom service prices and see.