By: Fabiola Grosshan
Submitted: 2010-05-18 06:54:43 | Word Count: 382
Perhaps you are traveling out of state, and your current phone plan charges exorbitant rates for roaming or long distance charges, and you know that making a long distance phone call from a pay phone or landline could be very expensive. Maybe you’re just across town without your cell phone, and you promised your parents or a friend you’d call them long distance.
A calling card offers the flexibility to prepay for phone calls at fixed low rates. Many hopeful long-distance callers end up paying for their long distance calls by using someone else’s phone, running up their bill and paying for it later. With the use of a phone card, however, these situations could be avoided. Some fear that by using a calling card they may end up paying more for their minutes than they would with normal phone charges. But this is not necessarily true, and the financial savings combined with the convenience of using a phone card make it a handy and practical purchase to have on hand.
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The benefits of calling cards are the flexibility the cards allow the owner by enabling him or her to use it in almost any situation. A calling card or phone card is prepaid, so the holder can purchase a card at a retail outlet, convenience store, supermarket or online. Each time you purchase a calling card, you purchase minutes at a fixed rate, so you have guaranteed minutes at the time of sale. They are easy to use.
Detailed on the calling card is a 1-800 number. The caller dials the 800 number and is prompted for a PIN. This pin secures the card and begins the timer on the card. It’s the 1-800 number that ensures you get the paid number of minutes and don’t find out later that rates have changed. After entering the PIN, the caller then enters the phone number of anyone they want to call, so the entire phone network, including cell phones is available.
The calling card fits in your wallet and makes it an easy way to contact someone in almost any situation.
