It used to be very expensive to call India from Australia. Telstra charges $1.10/min with a 39c connection fee while Optus charges $1.21/min and a 41c connection fee.
Call rates came down and were around 15c/min on phone cards about two years ago and more recently were around the 9c/min call rate.
Now a lot of new cards have come on to the market with rates below 5c/min, some as low as 3c/min, with no connection fees. This means that for a $10 card you are getting 200 to 250 minutes an amazing amount of time almost like making a local call.
Some cities in India have an even lower rate because of their high volumes of calls. These include Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai, Gujrat, Hyderabad, Jallandur, Madras, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Punjab and Tamil Nadu.
The call rates to mobiles have also fallen to the same rates as low as 5c/min.
One of the key drivers of price in the market place is the volume of calls. The volume of calls to and from India is increasing dramatically because of the call centre outsourcing companies operating from India. A lot of the marketing calls you receive in the evening will originate from overseas....
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