Airlophone press kit
Everything needed to write about Airlophone, on one page. Nothing here is gated, and there is no form. If something is missing, email [email protected] and Fabio will answer.
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Fact sheet
- Product
- Airlophone
- What it is
- Airlophone is a browser-based international calling service: call landlines and mobiles in 220+ countries at published per-minute rates, with no app to install, no SIM card and no subscription.
- Price
- Prepaid credit, from $0.02 a minute. $5.00 minimum top-up, no subscription, no connection fee, credit does not expire. The first 60 seconds are free and need no card.
- Also sells
- Rentable US and Canada phone numbers at $5.00 a month, for receiving calls and texts.
- Accounts
- Personal, or a team sharing one balance with no per-seat fee and a monthly cap per person.
- Platforms
- Any modern browser, desktop or mobile. Nothing to install, no SIM card.
- Release date
- Available now
- Developer
- EchoForge, run by Fabio Jonathan Arifin, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Website
- airlophone.com
- Press contact
- Fabio Jonathan Arifin, [email protected]
Every price above is generated from the live rate card when this page is built, so it cannot drift from what the product charges. The full card is at airlophone.com/rates.
Three angles, depending on your desk
Each one is checkable on this site in a single click. Take whichever fits, or ignore all three.
01 · Consumer tech and data desks
In 24 countries, calling a landline costs more than calling a mobile.
Every calling service asks which one you are dialling, and almost nobody knows. Airlophone publishes both prices in 200 countries. They differ by a factor of two or more in 45, and in 24 the landline is the dearer one, against the intuition everybody has. The widest gap is Portugal: $0.05 to a landline against $1.49 to a mobile, a 29.8x spread inside one country. Any service quoting a single national rate is wrong by that much whenever the guess goes the wrong way.
02 · Founder profiles, indie and startup desks
Built by one person who kept needing to call US institutions from the wrong side of the planet.
Fabio Jonathan Arifin runs EchoForge from Jakarta, Indonesia and works across Asia, while holding the US bank accounts and US paperwork that come with running a software business. Those two facts collide constantly: the bank, the tax office and the card issuer are all ordinary phone numbers that only answer during their own working hours, and every option for reaching them is either roaming, an app the bank is not on, or a service that will not tell you the price until after you have paid. Airlophone is the tool that problem needed, built by the person who had it.
03 · Business, SMB and telecom desks
Phone systems bill per seat. Teams that place calls rather than answer them are paying for the wrong thing.
The business phone market prices per user per month, which suits a support desk with a queue and suits nobody who mostly dials out. A relocation firm, a background checker or an agency calling on behalf of clients pays for a licence per person whether or not that person made a call. Airlophone funds one shared balance instead, with no seat fee, a monthly cap per person enforced at the moment somebody presses Call, and an answer rate per person where every rival reports a call count.
About Airlophone, in three lengths
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One sentence
Airlophone is a browser-based international calling service: call landlines and mobiles in 220+ countries at published per-minute rates, with no app to install, no SIM card and no subscription.
One paragraph
Airlophone is a browser-based international calling service for people who need to reach an ordinary phone number in another country. It calls landlines and mobiles in 220+ countries from any modern browser, with no app to install and no SIM card. Calls run from $0.02 a minute against prepaid credit that does not expire, and the full rate card is published before you create an account rather than after. Accounts are personal, or shared by a team on one balance with no per-seat fee.
The full story
Calling an ordinary phone number in another country is priced worse than almost anything else a phone does. Roaming bills by the minute at rates set for people with no alternative. Calling apps only reach other people running the same app. And the pay-as-you-go option most people used, Skype Credit, closed on 5 May 2025 and was discontinued rather than moved to Microsoft Teams, so the part that dialled ordinary phone numbers did not survive.
Airlophone is the plain version of that. You open a browser, type a number, and see what the call costs before you press anything. Credit is prepaid, it does not expire, and there is no subscription, no connection fee and nothing to install.
What makes the price honest is where it comes from. Most services quote one rate per country, which cannot be true: a landline and a mobile in the same country are different wholesale products at different costs. Airlophone resolves the band from the digits you dial and prices it accordingly. Across 200 countries it publishes both, they differ by a factor of two or more in 45 of them, and in 24 the landline is the dearer of the two, which is the opposite of what almost everyone assumes.
The same account works for a team. One shared balance funds everybody, there is no per-seat fee, and each person can be given a monthly cap that is enforced when they press Call rather than reported at the end of the month. Every call is recorded as answered or not, so a team calling on behalf of clients can see which numbers actually reach a human.
Key features
- The price is read from the digits you dial, so a landline and a mobile in the same country are never quoted at one blended rate.
- The whole rate card for 220+ countries is public before you create an account, including the destinations that are refused and why.
- Calls run in the browser on desktop or mobile. There is no app to install and no SIM to swap.
- Credit is prepaid from $5.00 and does not expire. There is no subscription and no connection fee.
- A team shares one balance with no per-seat fee, so somebody who made no calls this month costs nothing.
- Every call is labelled answered or not, which is the number a team calling on behalf of clients actually needs.
- The first 60 seconds are free and need no card, so the product can be tested before anything is paid.
- A US or Canada phone number can be rented for $5.00 a month, so calls can be returned as well as placed.
Images
Raw screenshots at full resolution, with no marketing frames, no captions burned in and no watermarks, so they can run as editorial art. Click any one for the original file.
The keypad quotes the price before the call, with no account.
The full card, public before signup.
Paste a number, get its country, its band and its price.
The team pitch: what a 12-person team pays, with no seat fee.
Wordmark. Vector versions are in the download.
About the developer
Airlophone is built by Fabio Jonathan Arifin, who runs EchoForge, an independent software studio. He was born in Jakarta, grew up in the United States, and now works between the two, travelling often. He speaks Indonesian and English.
That split is where the product came from. The bank, the card issuer and the tax office are all US phone numbers that answer only during US working hours, and reaching them from the other side of the world meant roaming, or an app they are not on, or a service that would not quote a price until after he had paid. Airlophone is built for people in the same position: living in one country and tied to institutions in another.
It is not a carrier and not a rebadged white-label app. The dialer, the rate engine and the billing are built here, and calls are carried over licensed carrier networks. It is a small operation, and saying so is more useful than implying otherwise.
What it deliberately cannot do
Stated here for the same reason it is stated at signup: finding it out afterwards is a refund and a bad afternoon.
- No emergency services
- Airlophone cannot reach 911, 999, 112 or their equivalents anywhere, and cannot report your location to a dispatcher. Keep a phone that can.
- The caller ID is not your own number
- Outbound calls carry a number we assign. If an institution verifies you by the number you are calling from, that check will not pass and you should expect additional security questions.
- Calling is outbound only
- The dialer places calls; it does not receive them. A rented number can receive calls and texts, but it cannot send texts, and most institutions deliberately reject internet phone numbers for two-factor codes.
- Premium-rate numbers are refused
- Ranges that exist to bill the caller heavily are refused rather than priced, so a misdialled premium number cannot run up a bill.
Airlophone has not been formally launched and publishes no user numbers, ratings or press coverage, because it has none to report yet. Anything of that shape on this page would be invented, and the product is sold on its figures being checkable.
Contact
Fabio Jonathan Arifin
[email protected]
Jakarta, Indonesia
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The first minute is free and needs no card. Put a real international number in and see what it quotes.