By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2011-02-03 18:15:31 | Word Count: 664
Do you only need to make a one time long distance call but don’t know the best way to do it? If you just dial out from your cell phone, you’ll end up paying a very high per minute rate, especially if you call during peak hours when the rates are even higher. Phone companies don’t offer reasonable long distance rates if you didn’t originally pick that feature in your phone plan when you signed your contract. This is so they can slap you with a big enough charge for that one call so it will make you consider signing up for an additional monthly long distance “plan” to augment your account, even if you never end up using the service again.
Depending on where you are or how much you’ve been chit-chatting this month, you could get slapped with hefty roaming charges and overage fees as well. Then there’s always the totally incomprehensible “access fees” and taxes that show up on your bill at the end of the month because of one little call outside your area code. It’s enough to send you running in search of any other option.
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Of course, you could go through the trouble of joining the line at your local convenience store to pick up a long distance phone card for your one time call. That seems like a pretty reasonable option. But how do you know if the rate being advertised is the best rate or a horrible rate? What a lot of traditional phone cards don’t tell you is that they have all kinds of fees connected to the service they provide you. What looks like a cheap rate in the store might not end up being the rate you paid to use the card at all. They often charge you a fixed amount to connect you to your long distance number. It gets deducted each time you call, even if you’re just redialing because you got disconnected. Seriously, a telecommunication company needs to charge a fee to connect you?
Not only that, they charge customers for even having the card. Once you activate it, the phone card could now be subject to a weekly fee, monthly fee, etc. And many of them round your usage up every 3 minutes. These charges are all deducted from your talk time, so how can you tell if the amount you buy will last you as long as the conversation is going to take? Many of these phone card companies just cut the connection—without warning—while you’re in the middle of your conversation. You’re probably thinking you’ll have to buy a more expensive card to get around this and run the risk of wasting your money by buying too much.
There is a solution: CallDirek’s virtual Pinless Dialing phone card. It’s the best option for a one time long distance call. Don’t get in your car, just give us a call or go online to sign up for the amount of minutes you want to purchase, and register your phone number. You can call in the domestic USA for only 1 cent per minute. Our rates don’t vary by time of day. There are no fees of any sort, and you can set up automatic refills in small increments so you have the peace of mind that your conversation will end when you are ready to end it. Your connection quality will be excellent and the privacy of your conversation will be unmatched, (because we use VoIP to connect your call). After you’ve quickly signed up, just dial our access number and then the one time number you want to call. That’s it! No pin numbers to remember, no waiting in line, no fees, and the advantage of super low rates.
Pay us a visit to make your one time long distance call a synch today.
