LIH Prem, these rates are not good at all. I know calls using readily available local phone cards that you can buy at the hotel gift shops in Singapore. Thailand and Hong Kong will cost a lot less than $1/minute to the U.S.

Speaking of Worldcom, if you use MCI as your long distance carrier, calls from overseas to your home phone is priced at the same rate as if you're calling from the U.S. to the overseas location. I think you have to be a subscriber to their international plan at $3/month.

Thanks, Echelon, for alerting me/us to the demise of VoiceNet. I would have been really "up a creek with no paddle" had I discovered this situation on my next trip overseas.

I had just gotten VN to increase my credit limit by a substantial amount to avoid being cut off in the middle of a call. I guess I'll have to start over with a new company. I will also have to reenter a whole new set of country access numbers into my laptop dialing program.

C'est la vie!

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dupe

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I too had been a loyal user of VoiceNet for many years. I was trying to use them to make a call from a LAX payphone last week, and I kept getting the "this number has been blocked from your area code" recording. It didn't occur to me that VoiceNet might have gone out of business -- I thought the payphone company was blocking my call.

It took this thread to make me realize that they're gone. Even their web site www.voicenetcard.com is blank. It's actually kind of rude the way they just pulled the plug on everybody without any kind of recording at their phone number or at least a web page to announce their demise.

I tried signing up for TTI. I dislike them asking for my social security number. I typed in 000-00-0000 so we'll see if they still set me up.

Ah well. As much as I hate pre-paid cards I might switch to such cards because the rates are just too good to pass up. Pre-Paid cards are more than half as cheap as the pay-as-you go calling cards.

bp888:

Thanks for your response ...

Just to clarify .. Echelon asked about charge-type phone cards .. the tti national card is not a prepaid card.

We ended up discussing both types of cards in this thread.

I agree with you, that there are prepaid cards with much better rates than the tti national 'charge' card. I thought that the noblecom.com Global Card (uses AT&T network) was the deal for me and I plan on using them when I can, but I'll keep the tti national card with me as a backup in case I'm stuck somewhere with no prepaid card in hand.

Thanks,
-David

Here's some of the best all-global calling cards you'll ever need:
http://webpagers.net/globaltel/globcard.html
http://www.net2phone.com/

I applied for the TTI card and just like the talker above I did not enter my SS#, just all 9's. Well today I got an alert and noticed that Worldcom had done an inquiry on my credit?! How did that happen? I never gave my SS#. Any ideas?

You must have given them your Credit Card # or enough information to do a credit check, which can be done without a SS#

Found this link a while ago. Lots of calling card plans all in one place and they have a "Best Rate Calculator".
http://ld.net/callingcards/?b46

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On a related note, I subscribe to what I believe is the very lowest priced
"dial 1+" service at home. The company is GTC Telecom http://www.gtctelecom.com/bus_longdistance.asp and they charge 5 cents a minute 24/7 with no monthly fee, monthly minimum or minimum connect time. On the downside, no miles!
But considering MCI's less generous offers than in the past, combined with their horrible customer service, I rather save the money.

On a related note, I subscribe to what I believe is the very lowest priced
"dial 1+" service at home. The company is GTC Telecom http://www.gtctelecom.com/bus_longdistance.asp and they charge 5 cents a minute 24/7 with no monthly fee, monthly minimum or minimum connect time. On the downside, no miles!
But considering MCI's less generous offers than in the past, combined with their horrible customer service, I rather save the money.

On a related note, I subscribe to what I believe is the very lowest priced
"dial 1+" service at home. The company is GTC Telecom http://www.gtctelecom.com/bus_longdistance.asp and they charge 5 cents a minute 24/7 with no monthly fee, monthly minimum or minimum connect time. On the downside, no miles!
But considering MCI's less generous offers than in the past, combined with their horrible customer service, I rather save the money.

On a related note, I subscribe to what I believe is the very lowest priced
"dial 1+" service at home. The company is GTC Telecom http://www.gtctelecom.com/bus_longdistance.asp and they charge 5 cents a minute 24/7 with no monthly fee, monthly minimum or minimum connect time. On the downside, no miles!
But considering MCI's less generous offers than in the past, combined with their horrible customer service, I rather save the money.

On a related note, I subscribe to what I believe is the very lowest priced
"dial 1+" service at home. The company is GTC Telecom http://www.gtctelecom.com/bus_longdistance.asp and they charge 5 cents a minute 24/7 with no monthly fee, monthly minimum or minimum connect time. On the downside, no miles!
But considering MCI's less generous offers than in the past, combined with their horrible customer service, I rather save the money.