Reliance India Call <\/a>service – they were such a great improvement over the myriad of calling cards that I got hooked onto them.. but in these last two years I have had a few issues with them..<\/p>\nOne,<\/b> when you dial a number wrong – you need to start all over again! The basic thing of dialing another number that most of the phone services provide in the US is absent. Wonder why the technical minds there never thought of this basic thing!!?<\/p>\n
Two,<\/b> this service is ONLY for India. If I need to dial a US or European number I need another <\/b>service. For me that service was Pingo.com. They offered very good rates for US and other countries although their India rates were a bit higher than Reliance’s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\nProduct Review: Use Pingo.com to Call India from US!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Most of us Indian immigrants in the US use some phone card\/service or the other to call home. And we call home a LOT!! 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