Crew Calling - Marpoint

Crew Calling

Hybrid PBX – Crew Calling Cards for Maritime companies

Marpoint Hybrid PBX is unique as it supports both VOIP (Internet) and VOICE (Satellite) calls within a single crew calling card.

Advantages of Hybrid PBX

Install today and start benefit by using your providers business rates for crew calling.
An FBB voice allowance package or the voice/business charge per min from your provider.

Call per minute is much lower than with the usual crew Inmarsat cards
Decide the total cost of the card
Create your own calling cards
Allow for far more talk minutes per card
Crew communicates with much lower rates
Get the profits from the crew cards sold
Use the voice allowance package, contract a new one or use their contract out of bundle per minute charge

Example: 25$ calling card

An Inmarsat Voice min crew card has an average cost of 0,60$ per min. Using a Marpoint crew card, you can use your Inmarsat business rate (average 0,35$ – 0,55$ per min.) for the calls made by the crew
You set the sell rate to a Greek landline at 0,40$ per minute
The crew can talk to a any destination for 62,5 min with a 25$ card (instead of 41,5 minutes with a usual provider Crew Card)
Your cost is 18,75$
Your profit per Card is 6,25$
Your crew pays less for making calls

Both the company & crew benefit is compared to the traditional crew calling cards.

VoIP Crew Calling Cards (Software)

Marpoint Hybrid PBX is supported by the VoIP Crew Calling Cards (Software)
VoIP Crew Cards for maritime companies and vessels is an alternative to the expensive crew calling cards satellite providers (FBB, VSAT) offer.In the event your vessel already possess digital call centers or PBX equipment you can use Marpoint software to issue your own crew calling cards for our unbeatable termination rates. . If not, you can simply install Marpoint Hybrid PBX equipment

Crew calling card software is supported by a Web based Call Detail Record (CDR) platform, which provides you the option to monitor all calls, duration status, costs and profits
Software is ideal for use with Marpoint’s local DID services
Crew calling Card software is used either with or without Hybrid PBX equipment

Example: 25$ calling card

An Inmarsat crew calling Voice min has an average cost of 0,60$ per min. Compare that with a termination to a Greek landline as low as 0,015$ per minute
You set the sell rate to a Greek landline at 0,35$ per minute
The crew can talk to a Greek landline for 72 min with a 25$ card. With an FBB crew calling card you don’t have any return on the card. With Marpoint crew calling card you have a profit of up to 23$ out of the 25$ card’s cost.

Both the company & crew benefit compared to the traditional crew calling cards.

Maritime VSAT FBB low cost VoIP

Satellite broadband networks face high-latency, lower bandwidth and jitter issues that make off-the-rack VoIP routers unreliable, if they work at all. MarPoints VoIP is designed from the ground-up for the special requirements of satellite broadband networks to give your organization the very best of VoIP over satellite at sea. Low-bandwidth requirements of only 8 KBps ensure high quality of service and throughput, while providing excellent voice quality and very low airtime charges which could be controlled by your own billing system.

VoIP Rates

We offer customized pricing to meet your needs. Please request the A-Z premium rate list with termination rates that starts from as low as 0,0035$ per minute and completely free of charge ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship communication. We provide the call quality you require to terminate your customers’ calls worldwide.

We provide you with a VoIP PBX and the ability to:

Create and modify the desired prepaid calling card packages
Apply different business call rates
Modify the calling rate plan in every vessel
Create daily call detail records
Unify your fleet into your existing billing system
Get better return on your investment (expensive monthly airtime packages)

Actual hardware and service fees vary based on your requirements.

Example 1: A 25$ calling card to mobile phone in Philippines

A 25$ calling card allows 55.5 minutes of talk time in a mobile phone in Philippines with a fixed charge rate for the crew (0.45$ per min) “you can always choose your own rate list”.

You will be charged for this calling card only for the termination cost approx.$ (8.5$ for the 55 minutes), thus the net profit for your company will be 16.50 $ per issued card.

Example 2: A 25$ calling card to mobile phone in Philippines

A 25$ calling card allows 100 minutes of talk time in a Greek mobile phone with a fixed charge rate for the crew (0.25$ per min) “you can always choose your own rate list”.

You will be charged for this calling card only for the termination cost (approx. 2.59$ for the 100 minutes), thus the net profit for your company will be an astonishing 22.41 $ per issued card while keeping your crew happy.

VoIP for FleetBroadband (FBB)

Get more from your FleetBroadband service.
MarPoits VoIP’s low data usage saves on airtime and provides excellent quality even on lower-bandwidth FleetBroadband 250 terminals.

Inmarsat FleetBroadband Voice vs. MarPoint VoIP Comparison Chart

Inmarsat FleetBroadband Voice Service

$0.65 / minute SRP

Single voice line

No PBXs

Limited Crew and Passenger solutions

Inmarsat FleetBroadband Voice Service

As low as $0.002 / minute SRP

Multi-voice CallingUp to 4 simultaneous satellite callsUnlimited onboard calls

Fully-featured PBX

High-margin crew & passenger prepaid codes generates great revenue for ship operators

VoIP for VSAT

MarPoint’s VoIP has many advantages for VSAT users:

The low data rate reduces bandwidth, allowing for better throughput availability for other services (e.g. parallel use of crew internet/hotspot cards)
The prepaid code structure makes it easy to profit from crew and passenger calling while offering fair prices
The full PBX provides the professional features found only in top level land-based PBX boxes
It offers more bandwidth than FBB terminals thus allowing up to 8 simultaneous calls depending on airtime package