There are many reasons why you should use prepaid calling cards:
Savings
- Prepaid Phone cards can save you up to 80% on your phone bill. Customers with family or friends overseas can save hundreds of dollars each month by using phone cards
with their home phone rather than dialing direct - and domestic users can find their bills cut in half.
- Use phone cards at hotels to avoid long distance surcharges. A phone call from a hotel without a phone card can cost you 20 times more than with the phone card.
- You can bypass hotel and educational institution systems with the resultant savings. (Dialing calling card toll free access numbers allows you to bypass the system.)
- Students often do not have any access to long distance service in dormitories. When they do, it is often expensive.
Prepaid Phone cards often cost much less than "non prepaid calling cards," which bill you for your long distance calls at the end of the month.
- Cellular phone users realize huge savings when they use phone cards rather than their cellular company's long distance provider.
- You can budget your long distance calling costs.
- There are no monthly bills (no surprises!), and no detailed statements. Rather, you simply pay for the calling time in advance and reduce the prepaid balance as you make calls.
Convenience
- You can call to virtually any country in the world from any touch-tone phone in the U.S. There are phone cards that will allow you to call from nearly one hundred
foreign countries back to the U.S. - at rates typically much less than direct-dialed calls from the originating country.
- You can use prepaid phone cards with virtually all cellular networks and all payphones.
- Prepaid Phone cards provide convenience if you must use a phone but are caught without a means of payment.
- Parents find phone cards a great way to ensure safety for their children, allowing them to call home, from anywhere at any time.
- Businesses find that phone cards are a convenient and inexpensive way to handle their long-distance needs of traveling employees.
Budgeting
- Keep long distance call costs within your budget. Students, residents and business owners won't be surprised with a large phone bill at the end of the month.
- With phone cards, you can determine in advance how much you are willing to spend on phone calls.
You always know how much money/time you have left, or when you have reached your budget limit.
Privacy
- Prepaid Phone cards do not present you with a phone bill so individual call details are not recorded.
However, if you do want to see call detail records, they are available with several rechargeable phone cards.
This is especially convenient for business owners.
- You don't have to go through a credit analysis to obtain a phone card, unlike billed calling plans.