Phone Cards

Do you own an Apple iPhone and make international calls? Do you know that you can use your iPhone to make cheap international phone calls from the USA? You can! Here’s how.

Use a Prepaid International Phone Card

You can save up to 95% on your international calling costs (hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) whenever you use your Apple iPhone and a phone card to make international calls–instead of direct dialing. Assuming you want to save money on all of your international phone calls, take the first step towards incredible savings by finding a reputable prepaid phone cards retailer.

While you can buy a phone card from virtually any convenience or liquor store, consider saving some gas and time by beginning your search on Google, Yahoo, or MSN Live. After executing your search, click through the search results to get a quick feel for each of the listed retailers.

Note: Comparing the search results for prepaid phone cards on more than one search engine can help you to more easily identify companies that the search engines feel are the most relevant to your search, and likely the better places to buy phone cards.

Next, whittle your choices down to a couple of phone card retailers you like, and compare their international rates and other features (i.e. rechargeable, PINless dialing, etc.). After you feel satisfied with a particular retailer, buy one or view our 10 additional tips for buying the right phone card for your needs.

Note: In most cases, the advertised minutes are based upon the customer using all of the minutes on one phone call. Try to purchase the lowest denomination of phone card whenever possible to help you maximize your minutes.

Great! You’ve successfully purchased a phone card. You are now ready to make an international call from your iPhone. Your card’s dialing instructions can be found in an email or on the retailer’s website. If you purchased a phone card over-the-counter, you will find the international dialing instructions on the back of the card.

Note: In most cases, the advertised minutes are based upon the customer using all of the minutes on one phone call. Try to purchase the lowest denomination of phone card whenever possible to help you maximize your minutes.

Phone Card Dialing Instructions for Your Apple iPhone

These are standard international dialing instructions. Please always check your card’s specific dialing instructions before attempting to make any phone call.

Step 1: Dial your phone card’s Access Number
Step 2: When prompted, enter the phone card’s PIN number.
Step 3: Dial 011 + country code + city code + phone number.

Note: To make another call, do not hang up; press the star key (*) twice, then repeat step three.

Congratulations! You just saved a ton of money on your first of many international calls made from your iPhone via a prepaid phone card.

Source: http://speedypin.com/phone/card/articles-apple-iphone-plus-phone-card-equals-cheap-international.html

Many companies now provide their customers with good telephone cards, considerably reducing international and national call rates. These phone cards actually save a lot of money. In fact, they are capable to save up to 80-85% of the phone bills on international calls. The cards can both be used by the people who are using the home phones as well as by those who use their personal connections for dialing abroad. All types of customers can cut the bills by more than half by using the cards. 

The phone cards are also beneficial for students as they are able to make long distance calls to their families abroad and keep contact with them even if there is no other means of accessibility. Phone card companies claim that the cards are more flexible and affordable than the calling cards and many of the customers have agreed upon this claim assertively. (Read on …)

Did you know they now make calling cards with no expiration date? This means you no longer need to worry about your card expiring: you can buy it and use it for as long as you wish.

As far as I’ve seen on the web, there are a lot of people complaining about having bought a calling card, only using it once, and then when they wanted to use it again (after a year or so), they noticed that it had expired. Yeah, I’d get pretty mad too, if that happened to me!

But luckly, some companies have noticed this, and they solved the problem, offering phone cards that never expire. You can check out the offer of www.nobelcom.com, or find one of your own. You’ll save money on international calls without having to worry about your credit (for which you have already paid) expiring.

Most of us want to purchase products which we can save lots of money. In terms of making calls, prepaid calling cards are the best communication devices that can help us make calls conveniently and can help us save lots of money.

Prepaid calling cards can be seen in lots of convenience stores, supermarkets and even online. In using prepaid phone cards, there are lots of benefits that one can get. One of which is that it can enable you to make international calls any time and anywhere.

You can actually choose domestic or international phone cards; it really depends where your calls will be. You can use calling card to call your loved ones, family, friends, and business associate, anywhere they are or you are. (Read on …)

Now, calling your beloved ones that stays in different countries is made easier and cheaper. Thanks, to international calling cards for making international long distance call an easier affair. This is so; calling cards are based on VOip technology of packet switching over internet. Before availing card, user must focus on important points like phone rates, renewability, rollover minutes, hidden fees and quality of call. Usually, international calling cards offered by established providers like connect2globe are cost effective. Calling cards are considered as a blessing for handling international calls with proper and effective verbal and aural communication over IP network i.e. broadband connection. (Read on …)

When people make international calls from their cell phones or land lines they often have to be aware of what time they are calling, and even where they are calling from. This is because international rates can skyrocket through the course of a day. Things are not much different with traditional phone companies. International phone card rates are generally extremely high with major phone carriers, so many people are forced to limit the number of calls they make outside of the United States each month. (Read on …)