I've been using a card (not prepaid, an account) from TTI National for several years, though I noticed that the rate I pay is about 1 cent more per minute than the link, so my rates are a little different than the one for the ttinational link posted above.

What's really funny is that they will literally send me a 6 page paper phone bill for 31 cents. The best thing about this card .. there are no monthly fees and no ridiculous surcharges. There are taxes and there's a small surcharge for using a pay phone. There's certainly no charge for using a hotel phone, because I do that all the time.

TTI National is actually owned by Worldcom now. Last time I lost a card, they sent me a new one, and it's lost its TTI logo, but the rate and bills are identical. (Customer service now answers as "Worldcom" and the toll free number for making calls answers as "Worldcom", but the bills still say TTI National .. I checked with them and the rates are identical to my old card.)

Here's what they said the rates were for a few international cities. (Caveat .. my card is not the same one as the tti national card in the link above, so that one may be different.) Are these rates any good?

Each direct dial international call has a 95 cent per call surcharge. There's no surcharge on domestic calls. These are per minute rates to the US. They also provided country-wide toll free numbers when I asked for them:

Thailand: $1.30 per minute
Hong Kong: $1.57 per minute
Singapore: $1.61 per minute
London: $0.96 per minute

I'm pretty sure the billing is in 6 second increments.

The customer service number for the card is 800-741-9200. The card is labeled Worldcom/Worldphone.

UAL Traveler: I'm pretty sure you can call non-US to non-US also. When I asked for the rates, the rep asked me if I wanted the rate from country X to the US.

-David


[This message has been edited by LIH Prem (edited 05-17-2001).]