How To Make Free Collect Calls from India to USA

February 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday referred back the Internet telephony issue to the telecom regulator even while providing flexibility to calling card customers, official sources said. Internet telephony, if approved, will allow consumers to make calls from their personal computers or laptops to fixed lines or mobile phones in India or abroad.

September 24th, 2007 Real-time demo showing how to get free VoIP-rate calls on your new Nokia N95 phone by installing Truphone. Truphone routes your mobile calls via the internet.

April 29th, 2007 Indian government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. This has the potential to kill current telecom business model in India.

March 22nd, 2006 Yahoo lanuched a service to provide local telephone number for $2.99 per month. The calls will have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones.

February 22nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday inaugurated the third generation (3G) services of the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), and said the subscribers of the telecom major would be able to make long distance calls for 50 paise per minute from next month under the proposed 'India-Golden 50' scheme.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. 'It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India,' said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

January 12th, 2009 With the advent of VOIP technologies, it has become a cheaper substitution of land lines or mobile phones in telecommunication domain. Today, let me tell you a trick by which we can talk to any land phone or mobile phone through Gtalk voice facility and that too for free! Assuming that you have a working headset with microphone and a Gtalk already installed (if not) in your PC, I shall now proceed.

November 5th, 2006 I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today.

January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).

July 7th, 2007 Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.

February 18th, 2007 GMail is now offering free accounts to Indians without any catch. GMail comes with 2.8 GB of space and increasing.

December 18th, 2005 Microsoft plans to make India a hub for research, product and applications development. It announced plans for investing $1.7 billion over the next four years, and increasing local headcount by 3,000 to 7,000-level.

September 20th, 2008 In India I can get 1Mbps from Tata Indicom / VSNL for Rs. 2500 (~ 55.55$ / month with 45Rs-1$ conversion rate) + Tax which brings it to Rs 2800 per month.

December 11th, 2005 I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below.