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Cheap calls to Pakistan

Updated: Thursday 19 January, 2012

By Anthony Hill - anthony.hill@consumerchoices.co.uk

If you’ve got family and friends in Pakistan, chances are a large chunk of your monthly phone bill is spent on expensive international calls. Take a look at the table below and read our guide to see if you can cut your costs.

Provider	Package name		Pakistan call rate (per minute)		Monthly package cost		Line rental cost
	Vonage V-Plan 2		5.5p		£8.99		£9.99	Go
	Talk UK Anytime		28.6p		£6.21		£13.80	Go
	Anytime Saver Offer		20p		£2.95		£11.22	Go
	Primus Home Phone Max		21p		£2.79		£10	Go

If you’re considering switching home phone provider so you can make cheaper calls to Pakistan, you should think about how often you make these calls and for how long. Ask yourself these questions:

• Do you frequently make calls to other countries, as well as Pakistan?
• Do you call Pakistani landlines and/or Pakistani mobiles?
• How long do you chat for?
• How much do calls to Pakistan normally cost you?

Take a look at your recent home phone bills and calculate how much you’re spending on calls. Switching to a home phone provider that offers cheap calls to Pakistan could help to significantly cut your costs.

Cheap calls to Pakistan with your home phone provider

If you’re looking for a calling plan that offers cheap calls to Pakistan, a few providers offer some really good deals.

You should also consider the YourCalls.net (www.yourcalls.net) Anytime Saver tariff, which charges 20p per minute for calls to Pakistan. If Pakistan is the only international destination you call, you should sign-up for its Golden Destination feature, which offers you discounted calls to a country of your choice. If you select Pakistan as your Golden Destination, you can cut the cost of your landline calls to just 9.22p per minute.

Cheap calls to Pakistan using your broadband connection

Did you know you can use your broadband and regular home phone to make cheap calls to Pakistan? Using an internet phone provider (VoIP), such as Vonage (www.vonage.co.uk), can help you dramatically cut your phone bills.

Internet phone services work just like traditional phone services in that you use your existing touch tone phone to make calls from your landline to other home phones or mobiles. The difference is that with VoIP your phone is plugged into a Vonage adapter which is connected to your existing broadband router or modem.

If you sign-up to the Vonage V-Plan 2 you can make unlimited free landline calls to 15 international countries. All Vonage-to-Vonage calls are also free, although a minimum set-up fee, monthly subscription and line rental charges do apply.

Skype (www.skype.com) also offers a similar service, where you can even make video calls to friends and family in Pakistan for free if you’re both using Skype, and benefit from cheap calls to Pakistan if they’re not online.

Choosing a phone provider

No matter which country you call the most, when you call or how long you chat for, there will be a calling plan that will suit your needs and help you reduce your bills.

Cheap calls are easy to find, but Homephonechoices.co.uk recommends comparing international calling costs carefully to make sure you don’t sacrifice low UK call charges for the sake of saying hello to your friends in Pakistan.

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