Category: World Call

Cheap Calls Ship Crew is most searched by seafarers and by their families all over the world. Those who are working onboard ships as officers and crew members are always looking for ways to make cheap calls to their homes. This is while they are at sea or while their ships are calling new ports. Seaman community mostly consists of Philippines mariners whom are working as crew members and officers in the merchant ships all over the world. Here you can find some tips that are good for the seamen to call their loved ones back in home at very low price. When going near to shores where mobile phone signals are available and if they have enough money in their account can use the roaming method to call home.

Methods to call your home from a ship.

Calling from ships are usually expensive as those calls are made through satellite service. Also many port authorities don’t allow the usage of the ship board communication system while the ships are staying in their territory.

Crew members can use the public phones while thew are on shore leave. Most of the seaman house assist them to make low priced calls to their homes. Also they can use communication centers to call back their home. Also they can buy IDD calling cards from the local shops and use them through the public call booths. The best way is to keep one Tri Band mobile phone or one unlocked Smartphone. When visiting a new country get a pre-paid SIM pack and use it to call your home. If you have installed Skype or Viber App in your device you can use the low priced data plan or paid Wi-Fi  to make calls to desired numbers easily with clear sound reception.

Ship’s Communication.

Before you are going to join a ship, buy a good Smartphone from nearest dealer in your home town.
Better to buy a phone with dual SIM card and it should be easy to swap SIM cards as you have to change them from country to country. Other wise every time you have to open the case and to dismantle the battery to change a SIM card.

Always buy International SIM cards for those countries which your ship used to pass regularly.

For example if your ship used to pass Sri Lanka, then buy one SIM card for Sri Lanka. Whenever your ship passes the Dondra head area you will have at least one hour of talk time. The Sri Lanka mobile phone carrier’s  signal are very strong in this area. Reload (top up) these SIM cards through websites from any part of the world.

Ship Calls.

Likewise SIM cards belonging to Singapore, Europe, Malaysia, Indonesia, Malta, South Africa and Panama are useful to the marine workers. Their ships used to pass these areas frequently. There are many websites provide services to reload any SIM card belonging to any of mobile phone carrier. Keep record of each SIM card, carrier, country, validity date, available balance and the mobile phone number.

Some country carriers offer free incoming calls, in that case ask your family in Philippines to call back you through a cheap phone connection from their home town. So you won’t loose any money.

Never go to roaming mode as it is very expensive and can drain your hard earned money very quickly-
Satellite phones are good for communication and you can make calls from middle of the ocean but the call charge will be US$ 6 per minute.

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Mobile Phone service in Africa.

Mobile Phone service in Africa is good and bad in some countries. Recently Tanzania had imposed $0.6 monthly tax on mobile phone SIM cards in their country from July 1st. The new tax is expected to hit 8 million low income people. It will hit them hard as these people used to spend less money per month. Tanzania’s government had informed the mobile phone carriers to fulfill their promises for better mobile phone service for the people. Violators will be be charged under the criminal law. It can lead to penalties and prison sentences on mobile phone operators. Meanwhile people here are enjoying the money transfer facility in this region.

Phone service in Africa.

Mean while in Zambia their Information and Communication Technology Authority went to courts against their mobile phone service providers MTN, Airtel and Zamtel for alleged poor quality services. As per CTA, the Zambia mobile carriers are making more money from their customers as they exploited for money. This include failing to meet the minimum quality of service and failing to comply with provisions of quality of service guidelines where network congestion, connection outage, call drops and lack of network availability are some of the problems that Zambian mobile phone users are facing.
Uganda is another country in the Africa region, their telecom regulators Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has warned to impose sanctions against mobile phone service providers who are in serious and repeated breach of the operating license by not providing good quality phone service.

mobile Phone in Africa.

However the main cause for the poor quality by these carriers in this region are their price war. People can talk for log minutes by paying less money.. This on hand increased the client base for the operator. But their income had dropped rapidly which in turn affects the phone carriers to provide better service in this region.  Electricity bill, administration cost and advertising are the things affecting them. From providing service with out call drops, no signal and other main problems.

In conclusion most of the African Governments understand that their country mobile phone service is in bad condition. Their services are poor and not dependable in emergency. So one by one these countries are beginning to show interest to take care of these problems. Further more allowing their telephone regulatory commissions to warn the carriers to put the hose in order. On the other hand  these companies need to provide cellular and data service at their best to serve the citizen. Of course all the TRC in this Africa region should regulate these Mobile phone tariff.

Source Africaline