Calling Card

Calling cards are great for personal use. And here's a list of the 3 main advantages:

Advantage #1: Your Bottom Line

Quality calling cards will save you money over standard long-distance. And this is a fact! You may know that many people have cell phones or domestic phone plans that provide "free" nationwide long distance calling, which is of course "free" with purchase. But if your family is spread all over the country, and you're a cell-phone only kind of person, then this means you rely on your fairly expensive phone plan to provide you with all of the domestic minutes you need. You're probably paying an average $60 each month for 1000 minutes, when you could be getting about 1500 minutes for $50 on a calling card. If you think you're scoring some extra minutes by having free nights and weekends minutes, think again: I bet but most of you family are busy during those times (and time zone differences may cause trouble, too).

It goes without saying that the savings for international calling are huge; you'd pay $1.80 a minute with a standard cell plan to call a friend in Paris, but a calling card is just 1.3 to 2.5 cents per minute!

Advantage #2: Flexibility

Phone cards go anywhere you go. Do you need to make a call from a payphone? You'll have to pay a small surcharge, but that sounds a lot better than $3 a minute on your cell phone! Travel a lot (or just a little)? With a calling card, you never have to worry about roaming charges, like you would on your cell. If you make sure you always have a calling card with you on any trip, especially road travel, you will never find yourself stuck paying inflated convenience store rates. You also don't want to end up paying high hotel long-distance fees...most calling cards eliminate all but the toll-free access charges (which vary by hotel; many offer free toll-free or local calls, and many calling cards have nationwide local access numbers).

Advantage #3: You Can't Overspend

Many people have learned the hard way that it's very easy to talk the night away. With a prepaid calling card, your minutes are limited to what you've already purchased; while you can recharge most cards if you need to continue your call right away, the time limit can be a great motivator to stay within your budget. If you ever got a $1200 cell phone bill for not being able to stay under your plan minutes, then a prepaid calling card could be just what you need.

Start looking into it, and you'll end up saving A LOT of money on your local and international calls.

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