Phone Cards for international Calls

phonecards — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:25:05 +0200

Phone cards for international calls and long distance calls – talk for a while and yet save money

There was a time, before phone cards, when long distance and international calls – even to friends and relatives - required a good amount of preparations. Everyone making international calls had to back-calculate:

• How much money do I want to spend on this international call?
• How many minutes does it give me?
• And what do I need to talk for this many minutes?

Sound funny?

Yes it does in today’s world, where phone cards are making long distance and international calls cheaper day by day. Phone cards were first introduced to make long distance calling easy and convenient. One could make long distance and international calls from any phone using these cards. Then came the price war between the long distance operators and the cost of calling using phone cards started coming down significantly compared to post-paid phone connections.

Phone cards offered today come with different facilities and operating modes:

• Some need a PIN to activate.
• Some need a call to be placed from pre-registered numbers.
• Some need a call to be placed on a toll-free number first to dial long distance, or
• A combination of two of more of the above.

Modes of payment also differ from operator to operator:

• Some cards can be used only as pre-paid ones. Once the minutes allocated for the value of the card are over, the card is of no use.
• Some cards come with the facility of “filling in minutes” by paying an additional amount once the allocated minutes are consumed.
• Payments are generally accepted over the Internet or in collections centers in cash or via credit cards.

Phone cards have, no doubt, made international calls more accessible and cheaper. But still, differences in service and rates offered by various operators exist. Hence, it is advisable to shop around a little before buying a phone card. Some of the factors one needs to consider are:

• Reliability of the operator: Many fly-by-night operators also came in to the phone card business looking at the response rate and the market size. Avoid them.
• Service quality of the operator: Check if the calls can be connected at any time and if the line and voice quality is really clear.
• Rates: Rates offered by operators differ from state to state and country to country. They may also depend on the time when you call – higher at the time of peak traffic. Hence, check out where you are likely to call most and then decide on your operator.

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phonecards — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:34:47 +0200

Prepaid calling cards are very popular with people who constantly need to make long distance, international and local telephone calls without replacing their telephone service provider at home.

These prepaid calling cards are very convenient for people who find themselves far from their phones at home, especially since these cards allow them to make the calls that they need using any mobile phone or pay phone. Aside from this, the card is also very easy-to-use, and is also one of the best cost-saving alternatives for making long distance calls, as compared to your basic long distance provider who charges you monthly wherein you are being billed not only for the calls that you have made, but even for the calls that you didn’t. With prepaid calling cards, you are only paying for the amount of talk time that you will be using, which will save you a great deal of money in the long run.

PREPAID CALLING CARD MARKET

These prepaid calling cards will most likely appeal to almost everyone, especially to those people who are constantly traveling to far places, as well as students and credit-challenged consumers due to its convenience, and cash-based commitment-free features. Since there is already a huge market for these prepaid calling cards, it is only normal to assume that marketing these phone cards may become a lucrative business for anyone to take part in. However, there are certain things that phone card retailers need to know before they can succeed in marketing prepaid calling cards to their consumers.

PREPARATION NEEDED BEFORE SELLING

Before anything else, in order to avoid any legal complications later on, you must be aware of the requirements of California Business and Professions Code Section 17538, wherein a retailer must make sure that certain information, such as surcharges or fees, which includes monthly fees and per-call access fees, the different prices and rates for international usage and other prepaid calling card services, per-call minimum charge, charge for calls that did not connect, recharge policy, name of the company and billing decrement, just to name a few, should be in a prominent area on the packaging of the card, and must be printed legibly so that the consumers are informed of such facts.

You may need to register with the CPUC are going to run the prepaid phone card platform, wherein you will control the rates, connection fees, charges and other fees.

EARNING THROUGH PREPAID CALLING CARDS

Once you have done this, then you can start selling the prepaid calling cards for profit to end users. In order to ensure that you are able to gain enough profit from your business, you must buy a large quantity of the prepaid calling cards from a source, one that will discount a considerable amount from your total purchase for buying the cards in bulk, and selling the cards for a much higher amount than what you have originally paid for them. You can just even provide a marketing venue for retailers and sellers of prepaid calling cards, whereby you are still able to earn some profit without having to sell the cards yourself.

It would be best if you are able to find an area where there are a lot of travelers, or students, or credit-challenged consumers, to ensure that you will always have a market present to whom you can sell your prepaid calling cards to.

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Phone Cards for international Calls

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