A phone card or calling card - a phone credit card with a Personal Identification Code (PIN) used for a pre-selected international carrier being far from home or not at work. Universal calling plans allow to ring a phone all over the world with a phone card dialing a predetermined number (not seldom toll free call). It is not free, like a few Voice over Internet companies claim, but the admirable quality is outstanding and you doen't have to be online to make a call. Give it a try!

International phone cards are rather cheap, often 10 times cheaper than coin operated payphones or having the phone call charged to the hotel room be it a call from Canada, the United States, Mexico City, Australia, London or India.
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