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Phone card to use with pay phones

sk381 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:20:42 -0800

Do they make phone cards to use specifically with pay phones (phones that require you to put in 50 cents for a call)? I'm in a situation that leaves me heavily dependent on pay phones for my communication needs and was wondering if there was a phone/calling card that I could buy that would have me paying less than 50 cents for a call within the US. I looked at a few normal ones that one can use to make international calls or cheap long distance calls and such and they usually have a 90 cent or such surcharge which defeats the purpose.

How can I call Ecuador on the cheap from a cellphone?

GilloD — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:45:29 -0800

I need to call Ecuador. Hola, Ask MeFi! My girlfriend is in Ecuador until December. We e-mail back and forth every few days, but I'd also like to be able to call her at some point. Here are the complications:

A- I only have a cell phone. So land line only options are a NO GO! UNLESS!
-A i: I have a landline at work
-Aii: Our boss is generous with letting us abuse the postage machine and whatnot, but I think long-distance calls to South America are probably not a good issue to push on

So! Phone cards? 800 numbers? I've never called outside the continuous 48 before, so I'm completely dumb on the subject. Help!

Calling Card Services

aspo — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:13:30 -0800

Can anyone recommend a non scam calling card? I've tried online. I've tried buying them in 7-11s. In both cases I got told the rates were one thing and got charged 10-20 times more. What gives? [More Inside] I would like to keep in contact with a good friend in Togo, Africa. I know calling cards are supposed to be a good way to call without being charged way too much (especially as I've only got a cell phone) but I've been totally ripped off twice now. The cards claim they are from 15-25 cents a minute but 5 dollar cards somehow only last 2 minutes. Googling is totally useless as it seems the calling card people have totally overwhelmed any search even remotely related to calling cards. Does anyone have a decent non rip-off calling card site they can recommend? Being able to get pins online would be a big plus.

US-Samoa cheap, reliable phone card?

Dr. Wu — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:50:12 -0800

Can anyone recommend a cheap, reliable international phone card? (Google returns millions of results.) Specifically, I'm looking for inexpensive rates from the US to Samoa.