<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Glasair:
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Every prepaid card wants to advertise the lowest per minute rate so they have hidden fees like
$1.49 connect fee
billing in 3 minute intervals (yikes)
$1.99 monthly maintenance fee (to kill off your card fast) some even charge WEEKLY
3 month expiration date (also to kill off your card with hopefully a large balance of credit remaining)
The best one I could find is click4prepaid.com.
7 cent connect fee
7 cents a minute
1 minute rounding
no weekly maintenance fee
1 year expiration date
Maybe they will be bankrupt soon, too.
I spent forever researching this one.
Anyone know a better one?
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I am also a former VoiceNet customer with an aversion to prepaid calling cards but I finally bit the bullet and picked up a Sprint card at Costco. $20 buys a rechargeable card with 480 minutes and no additional fees or surcharges except when using a public phone. When making such calls, the card will incur an extra 6 minute surcharge, which works out to about $.25 for the call. Otherwise, the cost of the call is approx $.0417 per minute. AFAIK, the card "expires" in about three years.