Thursday, March 20, 2008

Phone Calling Card Rates Under 1 Cent Per Minute!

New International Phone Cards are cheap and reliable. We've been using 3 different phone cards from Big-Zoo.us for about 3 years now. The service and features have be great and I never think about how much it's costing me to call a client or a tech support line. On hold for 15 minutes? Well that's still annoying, but at least I don't have to pay $5-$10 anymore. My calling rates for domestic US calls are about 3 cents a minute I think, and they have cards now that are as low as 1 cent a minute. Often if you put $20 or more in a card you get a discount so your cost is even lower. http://www.big-zoo.us/
 
We just started using the Champion phone card because it includes a free 800-Number that I can use for my business. Non-US companies can get one of these cards, program it to call their office, and just like that they have a Toll Free Number in the US to give their customers. Calling rates vary by country, but most are very low compared to other services. Don't let the way they display prices fool you. When you see a cost of 0.90 ¢/min, it looks like 90 cents, but it's real .9 cent, or less than one cent per minute. Yeah, that's cheap!
 

 
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2 Comments:

Blogger Geoff said...

How does this compare, cost wise, to skype? Advantages? Disadvantages ? _Geo_f_f

March 21, 2008 7:52:00 PM CDT  
Blogger (hris said...

Well, I'm looking at Skype.com's site and you can make some calls for free with their system, but of course you have to use a computer. With a phone card I think you can use any phone or cell phone, but I'm not sure. My Internet cable has been going out for several hours about once a year, but my wired phone has never failed.

The rates for services you have to pay for with Skype range from $0.021 on up depending on the country you are calling with Skype. They have monthly plans also.

I first started using Big Zoo about 6 years ago and at that time I was amazed to be able to save so much money on long distance, and have the easy of using a web site to pay for more calling time and to see details of calls I made. I could hang up the phone, go to the web site and see the info about the call I just made.

I can use my calling card almost anywhere. In the US I can call an 800 number and pay a little more, or if the city I am in has a local access number (most do) it's the same rate as if I call from home. I used to have my last job set up as a PIN-free number so I could use my work phone if I had to make a long distance call and not charge the company. Using PIN-less calling I only had to know the access number which I had on speed dial.

I just got a second card that has a free 800 number. I have not used it much yet, but I am planning to put it on our company site and see if customers use it to call us. The rates are so low that it's an easy thing to try and I can go to the web site and turn it off in 2 minutes if I don't want it any more.

March 21, 2008 10:28:00 PM CDT  

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