What's the Best Way to Call Philippines

[Gladz 0]

Please share your current mode of communication to your family in the Philippines especially in the province with no internet connections. All answers will be appreciated.

Edited August 12, 2011 by Gladz

[truckers_wife 0]

I used directo unlimited call for almost 3 yrs now.before it is $55 a mos but now it's only 39.95 a mos..they will send a phone to your family that you can call..and it's unlimited talkin it's from pldt...what province are you in the philippines?

[crazykuya73 16]

If your family can get a landline or even a cellphone, you can always get Vonage unlimited calling to the Philippines. It cost me $64.99, not including all the taxes they add to it. If they have no internet connection, then cellphone or landline is the best bet.

[joyjohn 18]

well i have majic jack and she does too , and also her sister has vonage, but we video chat so much on skype we hardly ever call each other..........just text and chat.........

[meandmyangels 0]

I used directo unlimited call for almost 3 yrs now.before it is $55 a mos but now it's only 39.95 a mos..they will send a phone to your family that you can call..and it's unlimited talkin it's from pldt...what province are you in the philippines?

How to apply for it? I am from Cebu.

[John&Juvy 36]

I only use our regular phone from comcast.... Fee is not really that bad. Once in awhile their's a signal problem in comcast, specially that my parents live in a province so I try calling them through my verizon cellphone, and fee is actually also just about the same. Was thinking to try magic-jack, but my husband thought that the signal would not gonna be that good. I call in Philippines probably atleast twice or three times a week and we pay around $20 to $40 a month extra on international calls.

[truckers_wife 0]

How to apply for it? I am from Cebu.

if you want I can tell my agent to give you a call so that he can explain it to you.hes a bisaya also hehe.like I said it's 39.95 a mos now that's all after taxes and it's unlimited.PM me if your interested and I can give you my number so that we can talk incase I can't check here for a while hehe

[A and T 82]

You can call landlines and cell phones from skype, and google talk/voice . I believe google is cheaper than skype per minute rate

Google voice calling, has no monthly fee and the rates are

Philippines - Landline$0.11Philippines - Mobile$0.15

http://www.google.com/chat/voice/

[Scott and Mhay 57]

Rebtel has been good for us.

[lbounds 16]

We use this one. About $40 a month unlimited.

http://www.oopacommunication.com/

It's ok for the cost but the quality is not always the best and sometimes we have to redial a bunch to get through

[SuperDuper! 230]

Everyone is talking about cost. NO ONE is talking about CALL LOGS which are needed at USCIS interviews.

A good advice is for Kano to go thru his CABLE CO. for INTERNATIONAL CALLING PLAN, and get professional phone logs delivered to him each month in his cable bill, no muss no fuss.

When you cut corners and going on the cheap, that is what you will end up with.

Getting less than .16/min to mobile phones in the Phils is as low as you can reasonably expect to get because the rates are set by the Phil Gummint, so why not get great phone logs from the cable co and not from "Phone Calls R Us" fonecards.

You get what you pay for.

Good Luck!

[Dwight - Hanilyn 1]

I use Tawagpinas.com for calling which includes call logs for 30 days. Every 30 days I print the logs. $0.12/minute landline and $0.14/minute Cell. If you decide this method is good for you, Please use my referral code - 6zpzz1. It has worked well for me. Call quality is good. Sometimes I have connection issues once the call is transferred to the Philippines system. If it says "all circuits busy now....." I just wait and the call goes through within a minute most of the time.

[Scott and Mhay 57]

rebtel will give you call logs each month to detail all calls that were made and to what number. Its good for someone that isnt constantly on the phone. Most of the unlimited plans I cant get because I am in alaska. My wife doesnt call that much to the PI...she mostly does skype video chat to her family.

Rebtel is basically 11 cents a min to landline and 16 cents a min to cell phone. There are no connect fees and call quality is pretty good. We have had only a couple of problems with it in the nearly 3 years we have been using it.

[Philwithlove 17]

tell her to use globe sim card and register here Globe Super US Direct

"Super U.S. Direct provides registered Globe Prepaid and Postpaid numbers a virtual U.S. landline number, which can be used to receive incoming calls from anywhere in the world. The service will provide the subscriber's U.S. contacts a more affordable calling rate compared to the standard IDD call to the Philippines. On the other hand, non-U.S. numbers who call that virtual U.S. number will be charged their respective standard IDD rates to the U.S."

it will cost her 699 pesos but it will save you from having expensive phone charges as she will have a US phone number. and you will be charge local phone rate.

im using the free 30 days trial of magic jack. so calling his phone is free!

hope this helps!

[Kevin-n-Merlaine 14]

Rebtel has been good for us.

Yah, Scott told me about Rebtel over a year ago...been using it ever since and couldn't be happier really