International Calling Cards-recommendations

missingtime

If this is the wrong forum - sorry.

Does anyone know the best method for using these things. I'm trying to ring spain at the moment. So far it has been mobile to mobile and I know that that is gonna take shi*loads of minutes off the card. But we're working on getting to use public phones. Today though I rang my girlfriends mobile from a public phone but I only got 4 mins. When she rings my mobile from a pay phone she gets 30 mins.

My friend said that if you ring the dublin number on the back of the card you get a lot more minutes than by ringing the freefone number. Is this true?

Does anyone have any recommendations on a particular company. I've been using smart telecom so far.

lazylad

I bought one thinking I was great. I still have it not after usin it down in me room buried somewhere. What a waste a money.

funk-you

for some reason the same thing happens to me when i ring from an eircom payphone using them. if i ring froma landline i get 100 mins for E5. you're best off going into an internet cafe that does international calls or getting a landline and using it strictly with your card(so as to save on bills). payphones are generally a rip with the cards.

Willymuncher

I wouldn't advise using the Dublin number, it does give the card a lot more length, but it really really eats away at the pennies, the card I use the most is Global Caller, they have a LoCall number on the back instead of a dub no. and for 10 euro it gives me about 260 minutes or so, I call landline to landline so no idea what kind of minutes you'd get or if it'd work that great with public phones.

missingtime

Thanks a lot for posting lads. Bought a ten euro one today and will be ringing payfone to payfone so hopefully i'll get a good ol run out it.

irlrobins

i've used a few of these to ring gf while she's on her travels. Tbh i never found one i was happy with. Half the time my call would never connect. Other times there would be a huge delay in the call or massive echo.

Anyway using the local number (01 in my case) give u the most time per card. There is a surcharge for using a mobile, payphone or the 1850 number.

If you contact the supplier of teh card they have to tell you the chargers for access the service from different phones.

Victor

International Calling Cards are only really value for money phoning from a landline (especially weekend and evening). Most of them will offer Spain (landline) for about 3-4c/min on top of the local charge. Alternatively you can dial a freephone number, but you pay 5-6c/min for the privilage.

Some cards charge extra for certain times of day, expire after 30-60 days and some have daily account charges.

Phoning from a mobile will cost 25-60c/min extra.
Phoning from a payphone will cost 25-35c/min extra.

By contrast you can pay as low as 5-7c/min in a call shop. No minimum committment.