<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by LarryU:
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.
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My wife and I picked up the same card, since her cell coverage is local only. Two issues with this card:
1) The 6-min surcharge for pay phones is annoying, b/c I would bet 90% of calling card calls are made on pay phones (esp. in hotels where they charge for 1800 calls)
2) We scoured the outside of the box for hidden surcharges like this one, but there is NO mention of it until you've already purchased the card and the Costco guy brings you the actual card. Now THAT is wrong, and in my mind that kind of packaging should be illegal.