By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2011-01-05 14:38:29 | Word Count: 664
Phone cards are typically the cheapest way to make international calls. The rates are lower than phone service providers, and there’s no contract to commit to. Unfortunately that’s about where the advantages end. The disadvantages far outnumber them.
Many of these international phone cards have many senseless hidden charges that eat away at its monetary value. For example, they’ll often feature a great rate to Australia like .25 cents per minute. Ok, so you stand in line at the gas station to pay for a $5 card, thinking you have 20 minutes to talk. You get it home, dial the access number, plug in the pin number, then dial a local Australian phone number. If you’re lucky, it won’t be peak calling hours, and there will be enough public switching telephone network (PSTN) support and good weather on the receiving end location. That means you’d only have to dial all those numbers once. Chances are however, that you had to dial them all a few times. Now, you finally connect and start getting into your conversation, but before your time is up, the call is disconnected. You go through the whole shebang again, only to get maybe 4 more minutes of talking time.
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The problem is, the card had a 69 cent connection fee for each time you connected; maybe an access fee as well; perhaps a local toll fee, an 80 cent weekly fee just for having the card (that gets charged once you activate it), and maybe it calculates usage by rounding up every 3 minutes. As you can see, you never had 20 minutes to talk to someone in Australia.
There is a way to avoid all of these problems. CallDirek.com offers you an internet based international phone card service that will let you connect to Australia for only 0.2 cents per minute—without getting in line or plugging in pin numbers, without depending on PSTN infrastructure or cell phone coverage, and with NO HIDDEN FEES.
Our Pinless Prepaid Long Distance Calling cards will connect you to anywhere in the world for the lowest rates per minute using Voice over Internet Protocol. You don’t have to make your call using your computer (although you could); you call from any registered phone. If we sell you an international phone card for $5 at 0.2 cents per minute to call Australia, you will not only save huge over a traditional phone card- from 20 minutes to 250 minutes, but you WILL get your full 250 minutes. We don’t have any senseless hidden fees on our calling cards.
Just call us or visit our website at CallDirek.com, and activate your account for the dollar amount you want. Then you can register up to 10 numbers that you’ll be calling from, so that our system will recognize them and there will be no need to enter a pin number. You can check your balance online and add value to your card as well. You can even set it up to automatically refill, freeing you from ever going to the gas station again (well, except for gas). If you can’t get to your computer, you can always call us to get it refilled.
With CallDirek, you can call Australia and anywhere else in the world you want with the most convenience, and at the most economical rates. Pay us a visit at CallDirek.com.
