A calling card or phone card - a telephone credit card with a Personal Identification Code (PIN) used for a pre-chosen international retailer being far from home or not at work. Standard international telephone calling plans allow to call up a phone worldwide with a phone card dialing a preregulated number (not seldom Toll Free). It is not totally free, like some other Voice over IP carriers say, but the admirable quality is better and you doen't have to be online to make calls. Give it a try!

International phone card are rather sparing, often significantly cheaper than collect calling, coin operated payphones or having the phone call charged to your hotel or motel room be it a call from Canada, US, Mexico, Australia, Ireland or India. Read the rest of this entry »