Free international calls on Three
“3” is the name of one of the UK’s smallest mobile phone companies. However, 3 has more significant market influence in areas such as Australia, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. Actually, 3 is a brand name of the Hutchison Whampoa company, which is a corporation with a wide range of holdings in all kinds of business areas: property and hotels, retail, energy and infrastructure, phone manufacturing, and telecommunications. The brand name 3 actually comes from 3G (third generation) mobile telecommunications. And the basic concept of 3G service is to include wide-area wireless voice phone, video calls and all kinds of data transfer via wireless Internet connection, specifically designed for mobile devices.
Bearing all that in mind, it’s only natural that the company can offer truly free international calls on 3, as well as cheap calls to Bangladesh or any other destination. The main feature of mobile network 3 is the cooperation between 3 and Skype phone. The result of the joint work of the two companies is quite beneficial for the client, since it incorporates the possibility of making free international calls through the Internet on their mobile device. Since last year (2009), 3 started a campaign, offering a Skype-enabled SIM under the 3 brand for the price of just £1.99 in the UK.
For cheap calls to Bangladesh, you can freely use the services mentioned above on a 3 phone or Skype, but it requires that you and the person you are calling share the same brand and carrier preferences, i.e. you must have a mobile phone that supports 3G communication or, if calling from a Skype phone, he/she must also be a Skype phone user or communicate with you on a computer with Skype software installed, plus a headset. This is not as demanding as it seems, since most of these conditions are more or less standard for PC users around the world.
If you are on the go and still want to make cheap calls to Bangladesh, an alternative solution would be to turn to other services such as prepaid, Just-dial SMS credit. This cheap calling credit allows you to make calls from anywhere in the world to anywhere else by simply sending an sms from your mobile and recovering a credit for a certain number of calls in very reasonable ways. For example, calling rates to Bangladesh using Just-dial are as low as 4p/min (if you’re calling from the UK), regardless of whether you’re dialing a landline or mobile.
