By: Fabiola Grosshan
Submitted: 2010-06-03 04:26:47 | Word Count: 398
A dark stormy night flushes the ancient city streets with falling rain and strong winds, and as you strain to find cover along the soaked thoroughfare of the Champs Elysees, you notice a red phone booth. A taxi would be a sure ticket out of the extreme weather, so you dart inside, confident that the change you received earlier at the patisserie will be enough to call a cab. Upon entering the phone booth, you notice there is not a single slot for coins, but there is a slide where you can insert a calling card.
Traveling overseas is a wonderful experience, but at times, as you need assistance, an international calling card is the best way to get help.
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Tourists sometimes feel that an international phone card might be a scam and that the minutes won’t actually work when calling overseas or elsewhere. But, international phone cards work differently than most people think. Purchasing an international phone card means you pre-purchase the card based on a number of minutes. So, you are guaranteed those minutes in advance. When you make the call, you enter a 1-800 number, so the call isn’t routed through any other provider, again protecting the minutes that you have paid for. The rate for the minutes you pre-pay for doesn’t change either. (Unlike a postage stamp that you pre-pay for and find that the value is lower when the rates change or worthless when you’re overseas.)
Ideal for calling to or from another international city, these international calling cards can be purchased in the United States and make it possible to call foreign countries at the prepaid rates. Having a prepaid rate can save a lot of money as many long distance international rates can be very expensive through a standard long distance carrier plan.
So whether you actually get the chance to run with the bulls in Spain, and you want to brag about it to your brother-in-law, or if your best friend is spending a semester abroad, and you want to stay connected or if you need to make any kind of international call, an international phone card is the ideal, convenient method to give you guaranteed minutes at a reasonable rate.
