they are good. I am using last two weeks. No hiddden charges and call quality is good. Lets see how it goes.

tweekerz said:I thought yahoo chat offers the same price.
What about Skype?
Skype is expensive, Yahoo is 9.9 cents per minute.

forjag said:How about Startec.com..They offer 10cents to india, 4.5 cents in us and 7 cents within your state. You can use pin number (which they will provide when u switch )for calls to be made from a phone other than ur home phone, and you get billed on a single bill (together with your home phone usage and calls made from any other phone using the pin). Same rates whether u use home phone or any other phone including your cell. ..Quality is great..Never had a single dropped call/any trouble.

Do you need to switch your long distance carrier in order to use Startec ?
I am pretty happy with my current LD provider (3 cents / minute) and don't want to change that.

xiaoqt90 said:Don't know why calling India is so expensive. calling China only costs 2 cents, some compamy even offer it for free.

Must be better process technology and competition between companies within the country

In Year 2000, it used to cost 55 cents a minute. Now it has come down to less than 10 cents. Give few more years to Indian govt. and we might see 2-3 cents a minute calls to India while calling rest of the world would be free. Just my opinion.

xiaoqt90 said:Don't know why calling India is so expensive. calling China only costs 2 cents, some compamy even offer it for free.

I think HP offers calling to India for free.
I know that everytime I phone their 800 help line, I wind up talking to someone there!

forjag said:How about Startec.com..They offer 10cents to india, 4.5 cents in us and 7 cents within your state. You can use pin number (which they will provide when u switch )for calls to be made from a phone other than ur home phone, and you get billed on a single bill (together with your home phone usage and calls made from any other phone using the pin). Same rates whether u use home phone or any other phone including your cell. ..Quality is great..Never had a single dropped call/any trouble.

IMHO, Talkloop.com is a much better choice than startec, esp. if you want to use the same provider for calling within the US. 2c within US, 1.69c to Canada and 11.5 to India (some places 10.5). Lots of local access numbers, excellent call quality. Most importantly, startec requires switching LD provider, talkloop doesn't. Have had it for >1 year, ever since the demise of bigoZoo.

StinkPot said:Please go easy on this. My first post.
Just saw on TV and wanted to share as I myself would like my phone bills to go down. But did not try yet. WWW.G3telecom.com is offering rates at 9c/min to india and to many other countries. I find this better than reliance though I did not try quality. According to them no hidden charges or monthly fees. Maybe will give it a try during this festive season.
Happy festive season to all

G3 has good service - they are also good in giving $5 referal calling cards out. I had some problem dialing to Canada from USA (its a Canada based company) but worked perfectly for India.

www.sargamdirect.com has a new Diamond card for 8.33c/min to all India. No fees or anything and 1-min rounding. Just tried it yesterday. Seems ok. Local access numbers reqd. If you call from a cell phone (LD included) you can use any access number.