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Pingo is an online calling service offered by iBasis (News - Alert). iBasis has announced that it has added new convenience features to enable low-cost international calling for small to medium-sized businesses.

Pingo (News - Alert) and Pingo Business are powerful telephony services that deliver the savings of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), while allowing consumers to use any fixed-line or mobile phone without additional specialized equipment purchases or software downloads.

Pingo's interactive voice response system will alert users in making Pingo calls when ever their account has a low balance, and with the simple push of the * key, consumer's account can be replenished.

Pingo has also introduced enhanced speed-dialing capabilities for both consumers and business users. After online registering of the mobile or fixed-line phones in their account, users can call their local Pingo access number and press a designated speed dial number to be easily and quickly connected to the desired domestic or international calling destinations.

"Customers appreciate the low rates and voice quality of Pingo and the freedom from the often rigid long-term contracts that accompany traditional long distance calling programs. With these new features, Pingo can offer a similarly high-level of convenience and ease-of-use, all still underpinned by consistently low rates from one of the leading international carriers in the world," said Jayesh Patel, vice president of business development and strategy for iBasis, in a press release.

Pingo provides consumers’ high-quality, low-cost international calling and long distance service on a prepaid basis with no additional contract requirements. Customers save on calls to both landline and mobile phones in almost every country. Particularly, mobile phone users can save up to 90 percent on international calls by using Pingo's toll-free access and lower rates. Pingo minutes can be purchased with credit and debit cards.

Pingo Business (News - Alert) provides small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs) reliable, low cost, easy-to-manage international calling for up to 999 employees on an "on demand" basis. SMB employees can use company-owned and their own fixed-line and mobile phones and achieve up to 90 percent savings on international calls through Pingo Business. SMBs can also choose the amount of funds they wish to place in their master account, with no additional commitment required.

Administrator’s provisions include:

--They can set individual spending limits

--They can easily monitor usage and

--They can manage account balances through a single, centralized account

iBasis was founded in 1996. It is a leading wholesale carrier of international long distance telephone calls and a provider of retail prepaid calling services and enhanced services for mobile operators. iBasis customers include KPN, KPN Mobile, E-plus, BASE, and many other large telecommunications carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, IDT, Qwest, Skype (News - Alert), Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Yahoo.

To know more about Pingo, log on to www.pingo.com.

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Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.