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.
Tags: c2c, click to call, phone to phone, pstn, spokn
Hey guys you stumped me with your innovation for sure. This is stupendous work. You guys have the tech and UI brains, now someone needs to get the Apple kind of marketing in place.
1. If i have an internet enabled and internet connected phone why should i not use spokn native rather than this? Oh, right this would be platform independent.
2. Then why not not confuse the user and actually make an app that makes the 2 way calling actually invisible to the user. So you don’t wait for aparty to answer before connecting to the bparty. Instead of having the user to browse to an internet page (mobile avataar of what we see here on PC).
3. Will 2* spokn rates be < 1*GSM rates?
4. If you have this service and ISP licence, why not clash with MATRiX kinda business too?
Cheers and thanks for being so responsive. Marketing team needs to be on their feet now. pay them
@nitish -
VoIP is highly dependent on your local network conditions. This is dependent on your phone connection, which tends to be more reliable than your local network.
The only way to automate this is to set up the call using one of our Call-through lines. The BlackBerry app already does this. We will be releasing the Android and iPhone apps with support for this. But in countries like India, where Call-through lines are not possible, we have to use this kind of a Callback mechanism. No point connecting to bparty if aparty is not reachable / busy / doesn’t answer. After all, aparty is being billed for it.
Not something that we’ll be able to guarantee due to the various GSM plans existing all over the world, but we’ve generally seen that this is true. We’ll leave it to the customer to make the informed choice about it.
Stay tuned…
Thank you Vinod. I appreciated the blow by blow reply and I specially like the line ‘Stay tuned….’ . I am.