Use Prepaid Phone Cards and Save on International Calls

Calling companies have introduced the prepaid cards with an intention to reduce the calling rate and thereby customers get attracted to make more and more international calls or long distance calls. To achieve this, the calling companies withdrew all the hidden cost on long distance calls.

What is a prepaid card?

Those who make long distance calls select a calling company depending on the reputation the company has earned in the long distance calling business. Having selected the company and the tariff plan that is suitable to him, the caller buys the same from the service provider. Each of the prepaid cards is available for a particular face value. The caller pays in advance for the calls he would make in future. This operates similar to a credit card. whenever calls are made; the appropriate cost of the call gets deducted from the balance available in the card. When the value of the card reaches a particular value, the caller will have the option to refill it depending on his calling need.

How it saves money?

The phone cards are prepaid calling plans. Normally such plans do not attract any hidden cost. The connectivity in such plans is free. This is the first step in savings. Further, in such calling plans, per minute calling rate is very much less. This is a great step in the savings on international calls. For example without a phone card the caller would have paid $1 per minute.

But with calling card, he would pay about 10 to 15 cent per minute. Apart from this, the caller gets huge discounts if he makes more and more calls. Further, in other calling plans, he has to pay some money as minimum deposit to the calling company. But no such requirements exist in prepaid calling plan. All these will add up to the savings. At the same time, these are available for as low as $2. Therefore, the caller need not invest huge amounts on buying these tariff plans. He has the option to buy depending on his calling need and on his budget. Apart from this, any unutilized balance can be carried over to a new card or in the alternative he can purchase additional calling time from the same company in which case the unutilized balance also can be utilized.

Regular travelers:

Those who make regular visit to a particular country and in that country for a long time would buy a SIM in that country. So, any calls made within that country would be treated as domestic call and it saves drastically on his telephone bill.

Frequent call to a particular country:

Those who have business dealings or friends or relatives in a particular country and make frequent calls to such country have the option of buying calling plan of that particular country. Such persons are also offered special discounts and this is yet another way to save on the international calls.

In short, phone cards are the best way to pay less to talk more.
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