Everybody loves a bargain, and that’s one of the biggest reasons we all love VoIP. So naturally I had to take a look when VoIPPlanet ran an article titled “World’s Best VoIP Bargain?”. The piece profiles a company called Nymgo, which has been around since 2008 although I’ve never heard of it until now, which boasts incredibly low international long distance. And I mean really, really cheap–unheard of cheap, even in today’s world of VoIP. 1.1 cents a minute to India, three tenths of a cent to Hong Kong; and anywhere in the world to the United States at eight-tenths of a cent.
According to the article, the company maintains its bargain-basement international LD rates by avoiding offering free services, such as video chat. And I have to agree that’s where the Internet world is going. We’ve gotten accustomed to seeing the Internet as a place where you can get anything and everything for free, and that’s made it very difficult for entrepreneurial dotcoms to come up with a revenue-generating value proposition. “Free”, as attractive as it may sound, is unrealistic. But low prices? Sounds good enough to me–and it’s a value proposition that has a future. Nymgo is available as a free download as a softphone, or you can also connect it to your SIP device. If you don’t need all the bells and whistles, but just want good, incredibly cheap international long distance on a softphone or SIP device, then Nymgo has just what you’re looking for.
