June, 2011


30
Jun 11

Click to call on Spokn.com

Click to call on My Spokn

Now you can set up great quality calls between your phone and your contact’s phone using Spokn’s Click-to-call service. Just sign-in to the Spokn website and in the “Make a call” section, put in your number and your contact’s phone number and hit the call button. Spokn will first call you on your number and after you answer, connect you to your contact’s phone number.

This is a phone-to-phone call – you don’t need internet access on your phone for this. Since Spokn calls you, only your incoming call minutes get used. In most cases, incoming calls would be free on your phone, so your operator won’t charge you for these calls.

Since Spokn is making two calls on your behalf, you get charged Spokn call rates to your phone number + your contact’s phone number. For instance, if you are in the US and you call India using the Click-to-call service, you get charged per minute for a Spokn call to the US + a Spokn call to India ($0.01+$0.02). Effectively, $0.03 per minute. We’ll be soon putting up a mobile-friendly version of this that you can access from your internet-enabled mobile devices.

The Click-to-call service is also available as a RESTful API that you can integrate into your own website or applications. Sign-up for Spokn, add some credits and call the API to enable great-quality phone calls on your website or application at Spokn’s low rates.


24
Jun 11

Downtime for maintenance

We’ve scheduled some important maintenance activities on the core network so Spokn can work even better for you. Please make a note of the time and plan your calls accordingly.

Downtime window - 20:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT on Tuesday, 28 June 2011. See this in your local time.

This will affect all the Spokn services. This post will be updated as soon as the network is back up and running. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update: Maintenance carried out successfully. All services back online.


13
Jun 11

Rates reduced and simplified

We’ve made it even cheaper for you to call using Spokn! For instance, calls to all UK mobiles are just $0.10/min (down over 70% in cases!) and calls to any Pakistan phone are just $0.08/min (calls to mobiles now cheaper by over 40%!).

Not just that, we’ve made the rates simpler to understand as well. How’s that? Here’s how -

USA & Canada (all phones) $0.01/min (from up to $0.09/min earlier)

Pakistan (all phones) $0.08/min (from up to $0.14/min earlier)

UAE (all phones) $0.17/min (from up to $0.18/min earlier)

Egypt (all phones) $0.11/min (from up to $0.12/min earlier)

UK (all landlines) $0.01/min (from up to $0.02/min earlier)

UK (all mobiles) $0.10/min (from up to $0.37/min earlier)

In the coming weeks, we’ll be simplifying rates across all our destinations. Stay tuned!

No worrying about which area code or operator you are dialing in these countries any more. Speak away freely with Spokn!

Update on June 30 :

As promised, we’ve reduced and simplified rates across our 20 most popular called destinations. Here are some of the new rates -

Saudi Arabia (all landlines) $0.10/min (from up to $0.19/min earlier)

Saudi Arabia (all mobiles) $0.12/min (from up to $0.15/min earlier)

Australia (all landlines) $0.02/min (from up to $0.04/min earlier)

Australia (all mobiles) $0.12/min (from up to $0.14/min earlier)

Sri Lanka (all phones) $0.10/min (from up to $0.17/min earlier)

Germany (all landlines) $0.02/min (same as earlier)

Germany (all mobiles) $0.08/min (from up to $0.15/min earlier)