Calling friends and family
Important days and holidays are when we miss friends and family most. But with the Ratebuster phone service there's no excuse for not keeping in touch! With low, low call charges all day, every day you can cheap call Australia at Christmas time. Or cheap call India at Diwali. In fact cheap international calls are a great reason to stay in touch all year round.
But if you ever need extra reasons to make full use of cheap calls from Ratebuster, our calendar of religious festivals and cultural events for 2007 might help. It shows the dates of all the major religious festivals for Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jews and some popular non-religious events too. All of which are times when you might feel you want to make a cheap international call to get in touch with friends and family.
Religious Festivals and Events 2008
| Non-religious | |
| New Year's Day | January 1st |
| Australia Day | January 26th |
| St Valentine's Day | February 14th |
| Chinese New Year | February 7th |
| St David's Day | March 1st |
| St Patrick's Day | March 17th |
| Mothering Sunday | March 2nd |
| St George's Day | April 23rd |
| ANZAC Day | April 25th |
| Freedom Day - South Africa | April 27th |
| Republic Day - Italy | June 2nd |
| American Independence Day | July 4th |
| Bastille Day - France | July 14th |
| Thanksgiving - Canada | October 13th |
| Halloween | October 31st |
| Remembrance Sunday | November 11th |
| Thanksgiving - USA | November 27th |
| St Andrew's Day | November 30th |
| Baha'i | |
| World Religion Day | January 20th |
| Ascension of Baha'u'llah | May 29th |
| Martyrdom of the Bab | July 9th |
| Birth of the B'ab | October 21st |
| Birth of Baha'u'llah | November 12th |
| Day of Covenant | November 26th |
| Buddhist | |
| Nirvana Day | February 15th |
| Chinese New Year | February 7th |
| Magha Puja Day | March 21st |
| Buddha Day - Visakha Puja | May 20th |
| Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) | December 8th |
| Christian | |
| Mary, Mother of God - Catholic | February 3rd |
| Feast of St Basil - Orthodox | February 28th |
| Twelfth Night | January 6th |
| Epiphany | January 6th |
| Baptism of the Lord Jesus | January 13th |
| Ash Wednesday | February 6th |
| Palm Sunday | March 16th |
| Good Friday | March 21st |
| Easter | March 23rd |
| Easter/Pesach - Orthodox | April 27th |
| Good Friday | April 14th |
| Easter Day | April 16th |
| St. James the Great Day - Orthodox | April 30th |
| Ascension of Christ | May 1st |
| Pentecost | May 11th |
| Pentecost | June 4th |
| Trinity | May 18th |
| Corpus Christi - Catholic | Mat 22nd |
| Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic | May 30th |
| St Benedict Day - Catholic | July 11th |
| St. James the Great Day | April 30th |
| Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox | August 1st |
| Lammas | August 1st |
| Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic | August 15th |
| Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox | August 15th |
| St Francis Day - Catholic | October 27th |
| Reformation Day - Protestant | October 27th |
| All Hallows Eve | October 31st |
| All Saints' Day | November 1st |
| All Souls' Day - Catholic | November 2nd |
| First Sunday of Advent | November 30th |
| Immaculate Conception - Catholic | December 8th |
| Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic | December 12th |
| Christmas | December 25th |
| St Stephen's Day | December 26th |
| Hindu | |
| Makar Sankrat | January 14th |
| Maha Shivrati | March 6th |
| Holi | March 22nd |
| Shri Rama Navami | April 14th |
| Raksha Bandhan | August 16th |
| Diwali | October 28th |
| Vikram New Year 2063 | October 29th |
| Islamic | |
| Al Hijra 1428AH - New Year | January 10th |
| Ashura | January 19th |
| Mawlid an Nabi - Sunni | March 19-20th |
| Mawlid an Nabi - Shi'a | April 5th |
| Lailat al Miraj | July 31st |
| Lailat al Bara'ah | August 18th |
| Ramadan begins | September 2nd |
| Laylat el qadr | September 28th |
| Eid al Fitr (Ramadan ends) | September 30th |
| Eid al Fitr (Ramadan ends) | October 1st |
| Waqf al Arafa | December 6th-7th |
| Id al Adha | December 9th-12th |
| Jewish | |
| Tu Bishvat | February 9th |
| Purim | March 10th |
| Pesach (Passover) | April 9 to 16th April |
| Yom Ha'Shoah | April 21st |
| Yom Ha'atzmaut | May 8th |
| Lag Ba'omer | May 12th |
| Shavuot | May 29th |
| Tisha B'Av | July 30th |
| Rosh HaShanah - New Year 5768 | September 30th - October 1st |
| Yom Kippur | October 9th |
| Sukkot | October 14th - October 20th |
| Shemini Atzeret | October 21st |
| Simchat Torah | October 22nd |
| Hanukkah | December 22nd - December 29th |
| Shinto | Gantan-sai (New Years) | January 1st |
| Sikh | |
| Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh | January 5th |
| Maghi | January 13th |
| Sikh New Year Chet 540 | March 14th |
| Baisakhi | April 14th |
| Vaisakhi | April 14th |
| Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji | June 16th |
| Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev | November 5th |
| Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur | November 24th |
| Zoroastrian | |
| Norooz (The New Day) | March 21st |
| Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra) | March 26th |
| Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) | December 26th |
When you have friends, family or colleagues spread around the world it isn't always easy to keep in touch. That's why we invented Ratebuster - the low-call hero who champions cheap international call charges - so you can afford to phone abroad whenever you want to.
We've done away with peak and off-peak charges so there's never a bad time to call. Instead you can enjoy cheap, flat rates all day, every day.
Make the most of cheap international calls
It's easy to make cheap calls with Ratebuster. You can make low-cost international calls - instantly - from a landline, mobile or payphone. All you need to do is use the appropriate Ratebuster access number for the country you want to call - then you can start making cheap international calls anywhere in the world and bust those big phone bills!
Once you have the access number, using Ratebuster couldn't be simpler:
- Dial the access number for the country you want to cheap call
- Follow the voice prompt and dial the international number you want to call, including the country code
- Press the hash key so we can connect you quickly
- That's it - you're connected!
Check out our cheap call rates above - just select the country you'd like to call.
You can make international calls from as little as 1p a minute to some destinations - so whether you're calling just to say hello, or you want to share a special event like New Year or Ramadan, you can afford to keep in touch with family and friends wherever they are in the world.