Gone are the days when international calls were dubbed as expensive. Apart from being expensive it involved lot of paper work. The caller had to identify the telephone number from where he would be making the call. He had to pay minimum deposit to the calling company. The caller had to pay service charge, tax and connectivity charges to the calling company.

With the introduction of prepaid phone cards all these stumbling blocks have been removed. Now, prepaid calling cards are the most economical way to making long distance calls; savings of about 50% to 80% can be made on the telephone bills. Since this is a prepaid tariff structure, the caller pays the amount to the service provider and buys the card. Whenever calls are made, calls charges are deducted from the balance available in the card. Whenever the caller finds it necessary, he can buy additional calling time to recharge the card. Since this is a prepaid tariff plan, the caller is exempt from paying taxes, service charges, connectivity charges etc. Per minute call rate is very much less. In addition to this, discounts are offered by calling companies to those who make regular long distance calls.

Buying is quite simple. No paper work is involved in its purchase. It can be bought like any other commodity of daily need. It is available in all the retail shops like grocery shop, news paper distribution center, pub, bar, coffee club, post office, petrol bunk etc. It can be bought online also.

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