Travel Technology - Who offers the best Prepaid calling card service?

Which service provider offers the best-prepaid calling card service?
Compare:
• Minutes - (most minutes / cheapest per/min rate)
• Phones - (most phone choices, best quality)
• Coverage - (national and regional)
• Features (nights and weekends)
• Service - (refill options/locations)

Since you mentioned phones it sounds like you're talking about cellphones. "Calling card" suggests landphones to me.

For cellphones, you need to buy the phone separately unless you're going to be happy with an ultimately-basic phone. Anything with actual features is only available with a contract, since the company needs to recoup the "subsidy" in the discounted price somehow. No free lunch.

If you travel abroad (having asked the question on a Frequent Flier board) the only choice is an unlocked GSM world-band phone, also not a prepaid option. There are plenty of nice phones for $100 - $150, but be careful - from on-line reviews there are more obnoxious sellers of cellphones than anything else.

For the occasional user (not you?) tmobile is best because after spending $100 on refills, the latency period goes to one year.

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For the occasional user (not you?) tmobile is best because after spending $100 on refills, the latency period goes to one year.

I've just started my third year with TMobile prepaid, and it works fine for me (infrequent user). I put $100 on it the first year to get 1,000 minutes, and only $10 the 2nd and 3rd year because I had hundreds of minutes still left from the first year.

Howard Forums has a prepaid section if you want to look at what others offer:
http://www.howardforums.com/

Which service provider offers the best-prepaid calling card service?...
If you are asking for pre-paid calling cards, you would get different answers depending on your destinations/countries. Not sure if you are asking for landline or cell usuage either. One step further, was VoIP a possibility? So many variables, no one good answer. ;)

If you had visited this forum long enough, you would know this topic has been brought up very often. Search the terms you like (pre-paid phone card, calling cards...), you may find other threads that would answer your questions, or the cards that would suit your specific needs.

Our fellow FTers had provided their own preference in the following 4 threads. Noted some of the rates may have changed in 2007, such as the Costco ones. I will advise you to visit the providers' website to get the most current rates/fees before making any purchase.

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=573024

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=555622

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=563833

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=282714


Welcome to FT!

It depends on where you live and what kind of service you need. I found a good long distance call services at www.prepaidcardstore.com They claim to have lowest Domestic and International Phone Rates.

try www.tel3advantage.com they have great rates and clear reception. I use it to call Brazil to both landline 2.5-3 cents a minute and cell phone 15 cents a minute.

Wonder what's become of the OP. Still can't tell if he's looking for prepaid cell phone service or a prepaid phone card, as answers are going in both directions.

Which service provider offers the best-prepaid calling card service?
Compare:
• Minutes - (most minutes / cheapest per/min rate)
• Phones - (most phone choices, best quality)
• Coverage - (national and regional)
• Features (nights and weekends)
• Service - (refill options/locations)

Stanacard.com has excellent call quality, I felt even better than Reliance.
But their rate is 4.6 cents/min.

So end of the day it came to 2.3 cents/min

Stanacard.com says the money will double only for the first payment you make after creating the account.

The trick we should remember is, DO NOT RECHARGE AFTER THIS $20 GETS OVER, just create a new a/c after this $20 gets over while registering for a new a/c, you will again get $20 for the first payment of $10 this way you can always get the rate of 2.3 cents/min to India :-).
Enjoy...!!!

EDIT: I checked just now after creating a new account and it works...!!!

I registered just now using a referral code sent by my friend i.e. [XXXXXX] and my money got doubled...!!!

Interesting thread for a member that just registered today to find and bump up after two years of inactivity. Do you get a commission off the referral code you posted?

Welcome to FlyerTalk :)

Folks - please don't post referral codes for phone card products in this thread.