In my world of habitual cell phone use, phone cards are a foreign thing to me. I plan to use them. Who has the best, cheapest phone cards. What about access fees. It makes no sense to use a phone card that is a penny a min with a $2 access fee to me.
Burn
The cheapest I have found are from Sam’s Club. I don’t really know what an access fee is, but I don’t think they have them. The more minutes you get, the cheaper the rate per minute is, and they have some cards with thousands of minutes on them. I’m sure others know of other good deals on phone cards but I plan on using these. Hope this helped.
Lauren
I agree, Sam’s Club is the best deal. In fact I like these cards so much I won’t sign up for a long distance plan on my apt. line, use the card instead. I bought 1000 min card, works out to about 3.7 cents a minute. 1-800 number to connect, no access fee from residence lines or motels. From payphones, you give up 9 or 10 min on the card to connect, basically it is a sort of access fee, still less than 40 cents. You can recharge the card at the same rate per-minute rate you bought it originally, and have the option of setting it up so your credit card is on file and it is real easy to recharge.
K-Glo
I have ny card from them, but don’t shop there ever (someone gave it to me). good rates, and it even works here in the Virgin Islands!8)
Tha Wookie
Burn,
ONe suggestion - go to costco and get the Sprint card. You get 670 minutes and they are renewable at 2.99 cents per minute. Extra charge (in minutes deduction) for using a pay phone. Very simple to use.
Bum
damascus bum
Try www.bigzoo.com. No connect fees. 3.9 cents a minute. No card to carry.
The problem I ran into was that a lot of the payphones are now privately owned and they block dialing to a toll free number. PITA. This was in NC, can’t speak for every place else.
papa john
I seem to remember having trouble with the pay phones in Damascus and using our pocketmail, which uses an 800 number. The outfitters let us use their phone, but they weren’t real happy about it. Didn’t want to tie up the lines, which is understandable.
Bramble
We get ours at Sams too. The payphone charge us actually 15 minutes/units but if you get the higher minute ones, the per minute charge goes down. The credit card recharge is great and you can set it up so that it resupplies the minutes when you get down to 2 minutes. There will be a pause if you’re on the phone but it will auto-recharge and you can keep talking without getting off the phone.
Wolf Cookie
http://www.clickncall.biz/index.html
Compares the rates of several cards.
Right now, one card, “Flat Rate,” has a 1.5 cents per minute, no connect fee from residential (hotel or hostel) phones, billed on one-minute increments, with a 50-cent payphone fee (typical). Best I’ve seen. You have to use it up in 3 months after first use. That’s easy on the AT if you have folks back home.
Pay online and get your numbers, which I printed and laminated. Worked for me.
Jan LiteShoe