Call Sri Lanka for Rs. 2.00 from anywhere in the world

Today we are going to introduce a method that you can use to talk with your families and friends in Sri Lanka for only Rs 2.00 per minute. We understand that many Sri lankans who work abroad or live abroad spend considerable amount of money to call their loved ones in Sri Lanka. We hope this method will be very useful to save your hard earn money.

Simply using this method your family in Sri Lanka can make a call from their mobile phone to your Skype account for just Rs. 2.00 and you can easily recharge their mobile phone.

So this method needs integration of few services but it will assure you an economical way for IDD calls. Even if it looks complicated initially, It is very easy to use once it is set up properly. You may be using different methods to Call Sri Lankan phones, but this method is the most economical and have many other advantages as well.

Few Advantages of this method :

1. It is Rs. 2.00 per minute – This is the cheapest charge to talk with relatives and friends in Sri Lanka . For example, A call from Canada to Sri Lanka usually costs Rs. 13 per minute when a long distance phone card is used. We understand that in some countries this cost may be up to Rs. 100 per minute. Many of the phone cards have 1 minute rounding as well which does not help to save money. If One uses Skype to call Sri Lankan phones from there is no big difference to the above. For an example from Canada, the cost is 13.9 cents (Canadian dollars, Around RS 14) per minute and 8.5 cents (Canadian Dollar, Rs. 9) per minute for Skype subscribers. But I know one of my friends who spend Rs. 100 per minute to call Sri Lanka who lives in Middle East.

2. Our family or friends in Sri Lanka does not have to spend money. It is not easy for a person from Sri Lanka to afford IDD calls, specially when they are calling a family member who live abroad.

3. This is specially good for people who do not have Internet access in Sri Lanka and for those who are not skillful in using Internet and Skype to make a call.

4.  You can use this method to send some easy gifts to Sri Lankan friends and relatives as phone reloads.

5. When calling from Sri Lanka the charges are per second (1 second rounding).

Following are few disadvantages :

1. They need to have a Dialog pre paid service or Etislat Pre paid service [Please note that Etislat charges for Skype call is Rs. 3.00 per minute). We will update you when other companies introduce the mobile to phone service.

2. Using this method the call will be to your Skype. So you have to be connected to Skype to receive the call. But with modern days phone which support Skype in your mobile, this would not be a problem for many.

So this is what you have to do:

1. Use this link to register for a service that you can recharge Sri Lankan pre-paid mobile phones. You can reload / recharge Dialog, Mobitel, Hutch and Etisalat mobiles using this service. ColomboZone has partnered with this company for you to recharge mobile phones anywhere in the world.You can also use this service to send phone recharges as gifts to your loved one in Sri Lanka.You can sign up in our service free. You can use the credit card or Paypal to send money.Click here to Sign up today.

අදම මෙම සේවාවට නොමිලේ ලියා පදිංචිවන්න – මෙතනින් ඇතුල්වන්න

If you do not have Skype installed. You can download Skype from here.

How your family who uses Dialog pre paid or Etislat can call you for Rs. 2.00 minute :

1. They have to send a SMS message to Dialog. This SMS is free and they will allocated a phone number for your skype ID. See below fore more.

How to Register and make a Call using Dialog :

1. Type Skype <space><user skype ID> and send it to 678 (SMS will be free of charge)

2. The sender will  receive an assigned number via SMS for the Skype contact

3. Now Dial the assign number to connect to Skype user. (Skype user should be online)

4. This number will not change for the Skype user. So save it in your address book  for future use.

How to Register and make a Call using Etislat :

Etislat users only have to SMS the Skype ID to 4545 and they will receive an allocated number for the Skype ID.

For example if somebody wants to call Skype ID “Srilankan” , SMS should be as follows.

1. Dialog : Type Skype Srilankan and send it to 678

2. Etislat: Type Srilankan and send it to 4545

I hope I was clear enough to tell you the method. I will ad more explanation to this post soon with the use of pictures. I hope you will share this method with each and every Sri Lankan expatriates living all around the world who are spending lot money to talk with friends and families in Sri Lanka. I would appreciate your feed backs and please take few minutes to leave a comment.