Archive for March, 2008

How to Buy Phone Card?

March 24, 2008

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Before to find Prepaid Phone Card suitable for your local or international calls, you should know that in general there isn’t such a card as known as “the best phone card”. Everything depends on specific features of your calls, countries you choose, your habits and aims, namely:

  • Where are you calling?
  • Who calls?
  • Whom do you call?
  • Where are you calling from?
  • How do you make calls?

    Well, if you pay some attention to read detailed cards descriptions and to compare few charges of your calls, to choose suitable phone card suitable for you will be easier. Then you can use it time & again and get a really way to save your money on calls.
    To make an appropriate choice of Calling Cards it’s better to consider all of the following factors, which show the best correlation with your International Calls:
    1) Where are you calling? – It means the country or city of destination.

    When you are staying on the home page of our online shop, you can see the search form of the best rates. Choose the country you need to call in the cell phone “from” and make your search.

    Search engine will find the phone cards which allow you to make calls from your country. Then it classifies them in decreasing order of phone card minutes that is the phone cards for the longest time to phone in will be in the top of the page.

    It worth to pay your attention to qualitative activities of calling cards After making search of best rates for your country you‘ll have seen 5 stars leftward on the page opened in the new window of search results. Stars represent final purchasing rating of definite phone card, for example, 9 of 10, or 7, 8 of 10. Well, click on the stars below card’s image, new window will be opened, where you can read final purchasing rating consist in. There is nice reference to give your view on service quality of our phone cards in this window. Final purchasing rating also can be found on the page detailed description of every card. Advise you to prefer phone cards with higher qualitative activities.

    It’s much better when Phone Card has local free-number (for state or city you situated or where you are calling from). Phone Card with local free-number feature is recommended to be chosen. Usually when you use Toll Free 1-800 number, instead of local free-numbers per minute charges may have been added.

    You can see phone card allows local free-number call or only Toll Free-number opposite on the right of every phone card on the page of best rates. Following the link Local Access or Toll Free Access you could know free-numbers more detailed. And, certainly, there is reference on the page of detailed definite phone card’s description to new page contained detailed information about all free-number features.

    It’s possible the other way to make free local call using automatic system, that is, at the moment when you are calling using Toll Free number, you choose “yes” answering the question of automatic system “Do you need local free number?”. In this case after you have got from automatic system free local number, you need to ring off and to call once again but already using local free number.

    2) Who calls? means, you use for call usual home phone or call from telephone-box. In the latter case you should check surcharge in detailed description of definite phone card, and if so, see total rate and compare these data with data for other phone cards to make final decision.

    3) Whom do you call? – It means, you use for call usual home phone or call from cellular phone. If you call to cell phone check if is the difference between cell phone rate and basic rate in detailed description of phone card and then make your choice.

    4) Where are you calling from? - It means what country or continent, state or city you are calling from: Canada or USA, Europe or Asia, Alabama or Alaska, Chicago or Mexico. Some of these cards you can use only from defined states or cities. And it is easy to see: or card’s name consist the state or city, or it is pointed further definite card’s name. Usually these cards have local free-numbers for this state, country or city. If you see phone card, besides 800#, also has local free-number, then it means that card is special or is made only for definite state. Some cards works only from defined place (state) and on the page of detailed card description, it will have written: “Card works only from State X!” in the line “Toll Free”. Well, be more attentive and don’t buy cards of this type if you aren’t situated in the state, which is defined of this phone card. Many cards don’t have local free-numbers (they have only Toll Free-numbers) and you can use them from all the states.

    5) How do you make calls? – It is about time and number of your long distance calls: are you going to make rarely continuing calls or many short ones?

    If you plan to make one or two continuing calls , then the most important factor you should take into account is rate (or number of minutes). You’ll need to choose cards that give you increased minutes (it is the same if lower rates). Paying for connection, paying for services, round-up of minutes, expiry date of phone card’s period of validity and the like rates and factors isn’t so important for continuing long distance calls.

    However rates and factors were told about is significant for review if you are going to call often and much. . You also can take opportunity to use phone cards with reduced number of minutes (with heavier charge), but with lowest rates. In this case you can also prefer calling cards with long period of validity and less value expiry date. That’s why card with increased number of minutes – it isn’t the best phone card for you, if you plan to have short conversations. So, you need phone card with free charge connection, low rate for service and also less round-up of minutes. In average short calls may be about 15 minutes.

    After reviewing all factors and opportunities you definitely could choose “best phone cards” to save your money. There is large variety of prepaid phone cards and of course they are different from each others, especially for rates. To make the most efficient use of money spend some time for this article, once compare different phone cards and choose the most suitable card for you. Choosing best phone card for you, you could always use it and save money and time.

    In our online shop “Cards to Phone” if you open page of detailed description any phone card you see the reference in the right top of that page Compare Cards. Following it, on the page opened less than 3 phone cards may be compared. Choose phone cards you interested in and click Compare. On the opened page you will see the results of comparison phone cards of basic features and rates. This is the list of features phone cards to compare:

  • Connection Fee
  • Maintenance Fee
  • Rounding
  • Toll Free Access number
  • Local Access number
  • Service Taxes and Surcharges
  • Public Payphone Charge
  • Validity period
  • Prompt Languages
    To read more detailed definition of every calling card features you could here . Use our service to compare without fail, it makes your process of comparison more illustrative and helps you to make sound decision of choosing phone card.

    Purchasing calling cards in our online shop is safe, comfortable and cheap (low rates and many discounts). Our online shop gives our visitors useful tools to compare phone cards and to choose optimal choice so as phone card combine with low rate, high quality and fit individual call features for every person.