Any chance for a world calling plan?

[VOIPoTim]

I was wondering if there are any plans to introduce a "world calling" plan similar to the VT_WORLD plan from Viatalk (or Vonage). Basically, for an additional $8.95 per month, VT allows users to call several countries (including India) unlimited (actually capped at 5000 minutes, but thats plenty for most residential customers like me). Full list of countries is here.

Vonage also has a similar offering, where you pay $24.95 per month and get unlimited callsto US, Canada, and several countries including India.

If VOIPo offers something similar, I would jump left, right, and center on that one. Any plans?

It just wouldn't be profitable to offer a truly unlimited international plan at our pricepoint.

The ViaTalk plan is capped at 1200 minutes per month so the cost is not much different than paying per minutes rates depending on the destination so it's a lot different than the Vonage oering.

Vonage is priced significantly higher and has some extra recovery fees that push it over $30/Mo so at that pricepoint there's a lot more flexibility.

If we introduced unlimited plans side by side, it would be very hard to do since VoIP businesses are built on overselling and knowing that most users will never use many minutes. If we had a low cost plan like we offer now and a higher cost one including international calling, people would choose the one most appropriate for their calling patterns and we'd never have the law of averages on our side with the international one. Since it's the default plan for Vonage, the average is based on all their customers. If they offered a cheaper plan beside it, the math would stop working.