Skype, dominantly being the “King of VoIP world” is considered to be the cheapest, popular and the most widely used app among users. But now with the significant rise of VoIP companies racing to take the call share the competition is becoming fiercer then it was previously. Among this we have a danish company Vopium determined to cut the call rates and rapidly moving forward to take the bite of Skype cake by offering cheaper call rates and highly affordable worldwide calling packages.
Vopium is a free downloadable app available for all popular OS (iPhone, Symbian, Android, Blackberry, Windows mobile and Java etc). Last year according to “The Guardian” there has been 50 million call minutes via Vopium – a figure which is continuously increasing.
A mini review by ekstrabladet.dk has compared call rates by Skype and Vopium in almost 15 countries where Vopium is found to be cheaper in countries such as (Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Thailand, Sweden, UK, Somalia, Polan, Norway); where as in two countries (China and USA) the prices are same; and in (Russia and Iceland) Skype provides cheaper rates.
From the below data, it shows that Vopium is ready to take the share within IP telephony which annually provides 40 billion call minutes per quarter (equivalent to 12 percent of the world’s international phone call minutes). Please see below ekstrabladet.dk ‘s comparison of 15 selected countries (calls to mobile phone / prices in euro / cheapest company in bold):
As the demand for international calls and SMS increases with time, do people know that they have a cheaper and more cost effective option available as compared to what they are paying already?
Country Skype call rate Vopium call rate
Afghanistan Skype: 0331 Vopium: 0.30
Australia Skype: 0.19 Vopium: 0.14
Brazil Skype: 0199 Vopium: 0.15
Iceland Skype: 0273 Vopium: 0.29
China Skype: 0.02 Vopium: 0.02
Norway Skype: 0198 Vopium: 0.15
Poland Skype: 0230 Vopium: 0.20
Russia Skype: 0063 Vopium: 0.07
Somalia Skype: 0645 Vopium: 0.49
UK Skype: 0236 Vopium: 0.19
Sweden Skype: 0273 Vopium: 0.10
Thailand Skype: 0107 Vopium: 0.03
Turkey Skype: 0149 Vopium: 0.10
Germany Skype: 0.23 Vopium: 0.17
USA Skype: 0.02 Vopium: 0.02
You can visit their respective pages and compare prices here:
Skype (http://www.skype.com)
Vopium (http://www.vopium.com)
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