Shaw announces new long distance rates for Asia
Shaw today announced new long distance telephone rates for digital phone customers calling China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Under the new Asia Unlimited Calling Plan, residential phone customers can now make unlimited calls to landline and mobile numbers in China, Hong Kong and Singapore, and to landline numbers in Taiwan for $6.95 per month.
The company says the Asia Unlimited Calling Plan can be added to any Shaw Digital Phone package, without additional monthly administration fees.
Shaw also announced the followed reduced long-distance rates effective immediately:
- China – 2 cents/minute (landline/mobile)
- Hong Kong – 2 cents/minute (landline/mobile)
- Singapore – 2 cents/minute (landline/mobile)
- Taiwan – 2 cents/minute (landline)
- Taiwan – 9 cents/minute (mobile)
- Vietnam – 5 cents/minute (landline/mobile)
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Why is it cheaper to call Asia than Canada?
I just checked out Shaw’s website thinking that maybe the above only applied to a certain plan but it’s clear that it costs 2 cents/minute to phone China and 4 cents to the US and Canada no matter what plan you have. From a technical standpoint should there really be a need for any differences?