We know that calling Bangladesh is quite expensive.

To thank this precious community that supported us from the first moment our company was created, we decided to add Bangladesh Mobile to the destinations for which we offer 120 free minutes every month.

The offer will be active tomorrow (June 26th 2009) noon and all our customers will be able to call Bangladesh Mobile for free, as long as they deposit $20 in the account every four months.

The offer applies to existing and new customers. If you deposited $20 in the last 4 months, you will have 120 free minutes every month to call Bangladesh Mobile.

This is the best offer on the face of the earth for Bangladesh. Simple as that.

YupeePhone means more minutes, less limits!

YupeePhone will offer 2000 free accounts on Thursday June 25, 2009. The offer will begin at 1pm (EST) and new account holders will have no obligation to purchase a plan. No credit card or paypal account is required.

Each account will have $1 to make free calls anywhere in the world. This is good for more than one hour for many destinations, since YupeePhone.com has some of the lower rates for international calls.

Accounts will be given automatically to the first 2000 users who will correctly submit the signup form.

The offer is valid for new CallerIDs only. Existing customers may signup, however they have to use the offer from another phone number and not from a number already registered with a YupeePhone account.

Daily, the competition between the telecommunication companies is getting worst. Most of the carriers use “posters”, people who go online and write triumphs about their service, while trying to bury others.

Four are the most common practices in this undeclared war :

a) Hire visitors in popular web forums and add their “unbiased opinion”. A great example is slickdeals and fatwallet. The last has also a $1000 minimum to allow you to post your deals “freely”.

b) The same visitors when they see an offer from the a company try to present a better rate or “kill” the offer with complains.

For example on voipguides.blogspot.com I found the following post :

“I have ordered yupee package on Feb 2008 and paid CAD 83.90 by pay pal and haven’t received anything from this company till now. Don’t buy any thing from Yupee Phone as they steal money”.

The problem is we began offering our services to retail customers in May 2008…

c) Cheat on Google Adwords and other advertising agencies to increase the cost of advertising for the rest of the companies. A specific telecommunication company is buying “new Google Adwords accounts” (which come with a free voucher of $50 to $75) to advertise their services. They pay up to $14 per single click. Try to compete that!

d) Hired guns are the deadliest. Some companies hire professional fraudsters (usually from China). These people open accounts on your website using stolen credit cards. Then they use the call back to call very expensive destinations, trying to get you out of business.

The best is that these people OWN mobile companies in countries like Bulgaria, Congo, Lichtenstein and others. They file for a license and never create a real company. Then they announce their own rates (which are very expensive) and use small companies to terminate calls to them with stolen credit cards. This way they make millions out of regulatory costs, while forcing you to go out of business.

We had our share from all of the above. Nowadays we discover fraud long before Paypal does. With simple programming, logic and a Security Department that verifies all new accounts manually, we have nothing to be afraid.

The only thing I am afraid, is getting too strict and be scared of everyone.

All customers who are calling India Mobile, on June 11th 2009 (EST) will be charged 1.2¢ / minute for all India Mobile destinations (including BSNL).

Our everyday low rates for India are 1.65¢ for India Mobile (1.9¢ for BSNL).

We are pleased to announce that the update is 80% complete. We increased our capacity to Bangladesh Mobile and Major Cities. Our changes for India are finalized at the moment.

The new rates will be up Tuesday morning. I have been informed by our Billing Dpt that the rate for Bangladesh Mobile will be at least 1 cent down in the range of 3.5 cents per minute.

The new rates for India will be below 1.95 cents with the mobile in the range of 1.65 cents/minute for the Pay As You Go.