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Is The Heyday Of The International Calling Card Over?

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Low Cost International Calling CardsWith both sales and traffic to my international calling card sites falling over the last year, I have been asking myself whether there has been a change in the way that people communicate when overseas, with the advent of smartphones that have built in WiFi and that allow internet connection without costing the user anything.

Traditionally making international calls was something that most people did only in emergencies, or ones a year at Christmas to say “Hello” to the family overseas for 5 minutes.

With the advent of the international calling card, people were no longer at the mercy of their phone companies, and could place calls by dialing a local number, entering a pin, and then dialling the overseas number, for a fraction of the cost that their phone company charged.

Some calling card companies included hidden fees, and tricked customers into thinking that they had a good deal, but this guide to the best international calling cards identifies several providers that are not only cheap and reliable, but who have no hidden costs either.

Indeed, for the last 3 years before I moved from the USA back to the UK, I did a lot of research to find the best calling card to suit my needs, and it’s amazing how varied the prices are, yet if you follow the recommendations in the guide, you can save a lot of money on calls.

Prior to moving to the UK I would be on the phone for several hours a day, and yet with the right calling card, I didn’t have to worry about the cost.  It used to cost me less than $1 an hour to call the UK from anywhere in the USA, not exactly a vast sum!

But now the market is changing again, with many people owning smartphones that have built in WiFi which can connect to internat hotspots anywhere in the world.  This allows virtually free emailing and with programs like Skype, audio and video calls to anyone with an internet connection for free.

So obviously if you travel overseas it pays to have a smartphone to help cut your calling costs, but where an internet connection is not available, especially a free one, or where your only option is to use a regular phone, purchasing an international calling card in advance is a wise decision.

 

I Is For International Calls

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Until I moved from London to the USA in 1994 I knew little of International Phone Calls, except that they were horrendously costly to make, and that the quality of the call was almost certainly going to be awful.

I remember when my uncle and aunt emmigrated to Australia in the early 1970′s that we would talk to them once a year, with calls costing about a pound a minute, and everybody would pass the phone around and pretty much just say “Merry Christmas” and that was it.

Having moved to the USA, I still wanted to be able to call my family back in England, and that cost in the 1990′s about 50 cents a minute, plus other charges, which was not good for the bank account.

Fortunately I was at that time working from home, for a London based software house, with my clients being locations for one of the major oil companies, that were dotted around Central and South America and the Caribbean.  Therefore if I wanted to make a personal call to the UK, the cost pretty much went unnoticed, and so things didn’t really change until my contract came to an end in 1999 and I had to pay for my own calls back home.

At that time I did find that I could place calls cheaper by using International Calling Cards, and found one that did save me a lot of money, even though the cost was a lot more than I pay today.   It was when that card went out of business about 5 years ago that I began to look into finding a new International Calling Card, and found out that I could really save a small fortune.

Things really changed when researching into my family history online I met a wonderful English Rose and fell in love.  Over the months our emails turned into phone calls, and I knew that with money being tight, finding the best International Calling Card that suited my needs was paramount.

Changing the subject for a minute, Debbie, my English Rose, wrote about How Debbie Met Tony, and if you are interested in learning more about us, this makes a good read.

Anyhow, I am well aware of how I can often waffle on and digress, and so to cut a long story short, I settled for a calling card company that has a range of cards, and that offered me a great price for calling Debbie, with no surcharges, no hidden charges, and it has been absolutely brilliant, saving me hundreds of dollars over what I could have paid.  The web site for that company is Almost Free Phone Calls, and I highly recommend them.  The card that I used gave me 28 hours of calls to the UK for $20, which was fantastic.

One other problem that I had was that in my last 2 years in Florida, before moving back to the UK, I did not have a landline, and so all my calls had to be made on my cell phone.

Now as anyone with a cell phone knows, if you go over your minutes, it can cost you dearly, and since we were talking for hours every day, the local cost was beginning to mount up.

It was then that I came across Metro PCS, who had monthly plans that included unlimited minutes on your account.

Now since my International Calling Card had a local number that I could dial, I only needed to make local calls with Metro PCS, and so I ended up with a second cell phone, purely to call Debbie in England, and with the Calling Card number programmed in, keeping in touch was incredibly easy.

Since the cost of calling from the UK to the USA was about 4 times as much, she used to “ping” me, calling me and just allowing the ring to sound once, and then I would call her back.  It worked perfectly.

So why am I writing this article you might wonder?

Well, the fact is, that many of us have family and friends who either live overseas or are visiting overseas, or maybe we are fortunate enough to travel overseas ourselves.  It has always been expensive to make those overseas calls as we all know, but if you want to call Mom on Mothers Day, or a family member on their birthday, or just to say “Hi” to an old friend who is overseas, by using one of these International Calling Cards, it’s now very affordable.

Before I end, let’s not forget those who have family and friends who are serving overseas in the armed forces.  Sending them an International Calling Card (which you can do via email etc), will make it easier for them to call home and to keep in touch, and it makes a great gift.

Keeping In Touch Doesn’t Have To Be Costly

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With Christmas fast approaching, and if you live in the USA, Thanksgiving even closer at hand, don’t forget to call those members of your family, or good friends who live abroad over the holiday season.

A card only says so much, but a phone call says a whole lot more, and you can make somebody’s day just by giving them a call.

Almost Free Phone Calls has a wide range of long distance and international phone cards, and not only are they cheaper than the competition, there are no hidden charges either.

Any time you need to make an international call:

  • DON’T buy a card from a store
  • DON’T wait until you are overseas before buying a card
  • DO check Almost Free Phone Call prices

If you need to call overseas, or if you are going overseas and need to call home – just remember AlmostFreePhoneCalls.com.

I Am Looking For People To Help Me Promote Calling Cards

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How would you like to join my team, promoting Pre-Paid International Calling Cards?

This is a very lucrative market, and with the price of International Phone Calls made through people’s long distance phone company, or through cell phone companies, from hotel rooms or pay phones being outrageous, the market for a cheaper alternative is enormous.

The company that I work with has some of the lowest prices for International Calling Cards to be found anywhere, and what is best is that there are no hidden charges – the price you see is all that you pay.

Please read on for more information about calling cards, but if you are ready to take a further look, CLICK HERE for more information now.

Some calling card companies only work if you call from a few countries, but this company operates in many countries around the world, so you can use your card to call for example from the USA to the UK, from the UK back to the USA,  from the USA to India and from India back to the USA.

Anything is possible, and like any affiliate program,  it won’t cost you a penny to join.

What I want to know though is:

  • Do you make international calls yourself?
  • Do you know anyone who makes international calls?
  • Do you live in a community that has ethnic minorities with family overseas?
  • Do you go to a gym or any other place where there is a multi-national membership?
  • Do you use local businesses – like a Hairdresser or Barber?

There are so many ways that you can promote this business online, and even more by having local companies display your business cards.

Just get business cards printed with your affiliate link (or your own domain if you prefer), and you have an amazing potential for very little work.

Take it one stage further – get the business owner to see the potential and sign up and then they will promote the business to their customers.

The great thing is that every card you sell will be saving people money.

You don’t have to just sell to individuals either.  There are many companies that buy and sell overseas, and who can also save on cost by using your calling cards.

Well there is my sales pitch, and I promote these cards because I use them myself and have been for three years.  I researched the calling card business to save myself money, and found them to be the best value and most flexible for my needs.

CLICK HERE for more information if you are interested, and if you still have questions, please feel free to contact me and I will do my best to answer them.

I hope you will join me in this great business, and if you do, I wish you the best of success.