Making using virtual DID numbers in Istanbul

Making cheap calls to Turkey using virtual DID numbers in Istanbul

Turkey's local name is Turkiye and it is known officially as the Republic of Turkey. It is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The capital city of Turkey is Ankara. Turkey is divided in 81 different provinces and provinces are further divided into 7 regions.

 How to dial Turkish phone numbers: 

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  "0" is the long distance dialing code in Turkey and must be added long distance.
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  Area codes are three digits long and every city has its own area code.
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  Turkish phone numbers are 7 digits
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  Dialing mobile numbers is a long distance call and needs to be dialed as 0 + mobile code + number 

How to call Turkey from other countries:

Phone numbers are frequently shown with the plus + sign in front of the number + 90 212 122 1515. 90 - country code for Turkey. Area code - 3 digit area codes. Cellphones also have 3 digit codes starting with "5". Phone number - 7 digits

 Costs of calling Turkey from other countries: dialing Turkish numbers from outside Turkiye can be very expensive. Let's look at various options available for calling landlines and mobiles in Turkey. 

1. VoIP providers offering discount rates for international calls.

 Voice over IP services like Broadvoice, Skype, Lingo and Vonage offer affordable rates to dial international. Using these services, you will pay less per minute than you would pay by dialing Turkey directly. It will cost you about $0.17 to dial landlines in Turkey and up to $0.58 to call mobiles.

2. Calling cards (US and Canada)

Union Telecard, one of the largest calling card brands in North America, provides convenient service with many access numbers across the country. Per-minute rates to dial Turkey are from $0.06 for landlines and $0.28 for mobiles.

3. Virtual number providers – save up to 95% by using DID numbers in Turkey instead! 

There are several alternative VoIP providers offering much cheaper service to Turkey without a compromise on quality. Savings are achieved by using virtual telephone numbers from Turkey (Ankara, Istanbul). This technology offers free and unlimited falls from $10 per month – no calling card or VoIP device is required. 

For example, Didlogic.com, WorldNX, CTS and CMN provide Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara and National virtual numbers in Turkey that can be helpful in cutting your costs dramatically. You can now have a DID number in Turkey that can be forwarded to any phone in the world or sent to your other SIP provider, or Skype account.

Outgoing calls to Turkey cost only $0.02 per minute to landlines and $0.05 to mobiles.

You can also buy a Turkey phone number and forward it to your cellphone anywhere in the world. Your call history and caller IDs can be viewed online by logging in to your online account. You can easily change your forwarding destination by logging in to your account.

You can create local presence in Instanbul, Turkey without having to establish an office and invest in company formation. Virtual numbers are a very convenient way to provide your callers a local number to dial that will be diverted to any phone worldwide, or an IP address. Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir or National Turkey DID numbers can also be integrated with your virtual PBX or SIP server like Asterisk or FreePBX.

This same option can be used to make calls to other destinations in Europe, North America and Central Asia: Canada - $0.0026/min USA - $0.0056/min UK - $0.007/min Kazakhstan - $0.0066/min

Pricing heavily depends on the cellular network you are dialing. Even though DIDlogic.com service can cost more for various numbers in the same country, many networks are extremely affordable to call. This is a very simple and convenient option to save money on your calls to Turkish mobile phones and landlines. You can provide over 95% on your international calls.

100,000 FREE SMS to all our users worldwide! Your International Texting With Rebtel SMS

SMS has been one of our favorite ways of communicating with friends and family since forever. Unfortunately, the price for texting has pretty much been at a stand-still ever since we sent our very first SMS using one of those mediaeval Nokia 5110s.

If you look at the amount of data you send in a text message and compare it to how much you pay your operator, SMS is actually one of the most expensive methods of communicating. Sure, buying a bucket plan from your carrier can get you a price as low as $0.01 per 140 bytes, which is how much one 160 character text message weighs. Taken at face value, $0.01 does sound like a pretty good deal, right?

However, if we apply the same cost per byte on an iTunes download of our favorite TV-show, Lost, things are put in a different perspective. After deducting the price you pay for the actual content itself, that one episode of Lost would set you back a mind-blowing$48,000.

Worth noting is that the scenario and prices mentioned here are only for domestic texting in the US. If you want to send an SMS to a friend on the other side of the globe, you will be charged a whole lot more.

Thankfully, there is now a way to go around this.

Rebtel SMS – International Texting For Regular Phones

If you, just like about a billion other people around the world, don’t have a Smartphone and don’t feel like using your computer to send texts, you’ve pretty much been out of luck when it comes to saving on international SMS. Until now. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new innovative service called Rebtel SMS that lets Rebtel users in the US send SMS to local numbers for rates that are up to 93% lower compared to your operator’s. The only difference with using Rebtel SMS is that you send your message to a cheap local number instead of an expensive international number – just like when calling with Rebtel.

Lowered Rates and 100,000 Free SMS Giveaway

To celebrate the launch of Rebtel SMS we’ve decided to not only lower our SMS rates, but also give away a total of 100,000 free texts to all our Rebtel friends. There are no strings attached. All users, existing as well as new ones are able to enjoy the giveaway.

Starting today, Wednesday April 20, you’ll be able to text for free until the 100,000 messages run out. We’ll be posting daily updates on Facebook, Twitter andGetSatisfaction every day to let you know how many free texts are left.

The new lowered rates apply as soon as all the free messages are up. Below are just a few price examples:

Ghana – 2.9¢, down from 9.9¢

India – 3.9¢, down from 6.9¢

Nigeria – 4.8¢, down from 5.9¢

How To Get Started

1. Sign up for Rebtel here.

2. Add your first contact. Use the international number that you usually text your friend on.

3. Rebtel creates a cheap local number for you to use instead. The new number will be sent to you via email and SMS.

4. Open up your regular SMS app on your mobile phone, select the new local number instead of the international, compose your message and start saving.

Remember, the same local numbers you create on Rebtel to text your friends on can also be used for making super cheap international calls. If you want to have a look at our calling rates, click here. Please note that this new service only is available for our US users and that your operator may charge you unless you have text messages included in your monthly plan.

Have a Smartphone?

If you’re on an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android, you can save on international SMS by downloading one of our mobile apps. All three are equipped with Rebtel SMS functionality that allows you to save up to 93% on your texts to friends and family abroad.

Happy texting!