Prepaid Calling Cards are by far one of the least expensive ways to make long distance calls. Whether you're traveling, or just making long distance calls from home, Prepaid Calling Cards offer the most bang for your buck.

Dedicated Long Distance service offers larger companies 1 - 2 cents a minute for domestic U.S. calling. Without a prepaid phone card, Switched Long Distance service, for home or business, runs in the 3 - 9 cent range, plus a charge for the rate plan.

However, anyone, who knows where to look, can get a good Prepaid Calling card and make U.S. domestic calls for around 1 to 3 cents per minute, just for buying a $10 Prepaid Calling Card. Not a bad rate for minimal cost and commitment!

For international calls, the advantage is even more staggering. In most cases, a good Prepaid Calling Card will cost half what a direct dial call would cost, in some cases, only a quarter to a third what a direct dial call would cost.

Why are prepaid calling cards so inexpensive? Many smaller carriers have made special arrangements to call a particular country, and as that is their focus, they are able to obtain very competitive rates to that specific location. Or, carriers buy bulk minutes in advance, unless they have their own equipment, in which case they only pay to connect to the other telephone company. Either way, they enjoy savings they then pass on to the consumer. Plus, some customers don't always use all of the time they've paid for on a card, so the card carrier gets a bonus.

Prepaid Calling Cards are a very cost effective way to make personal or business calls while on the go, or even from the home or office. If there is a downside, it might be that you have to go buy the card in advance, and as with any kind of calling card, you have to dial a few extra digits each time you call with the card.

As for the inconvenience of finding and buying the right card for where you want to call, BMGC makes it easy! Our online portal lets you search for, compare, and buy physical cards, or instant e-mailed card numbers, quickly and easily!

Use the free phone card finder in the upper right hand corner to start your search. Or, go to our Prepaid Calling Card portal at bmgphonecards.com!

Here, you will find everything you need to know about the best prepaid calling card for the type of calls you want to make. You can pick the country you are calling from, and the country you're calling to, and be presented with the best rates for the cards that support that type of call.

We recommend you read the fine print. All we can do is consolidate the cards into the appropriate categories and provide all the details about the card that have been made available to us, we don't manufacture the cards, and we don't set the rates.

So, you'll find our portal will show you the important things to consider, such as:

• Rate Per Minute - You'll see the cards organized by their per minute rate.


• Billing Increments - Whether calls are billed one minute at a time, or 3 minutes at a time, for example, which may make a difference if someone makes a lot of short calls, you would want to look for a card with shorter billing increments, if available to your destination.


• Connect Fee - Some cards may charge a connect fee, meaning each time you use the card, their may be a connect fee, reducing the overall number of minutes available on a prepaid card, if a lot of separate calls are made on it.


• Maintenance Fee - Some cards charge something usually referred to as a maintenance fee, and it may be charged on a weekly basis, or semi-monthly basis, for example, so the longer you keep the card, usually after its first use, then a maintenance fee would gradually reduce its value over time.


• Taxes and Surcharges - Some cards deduct a percentage for additional taxes after each call. While sometimes this is just a way to make a little more profit off each card, some destinations make it hard to get around some additional taxes.


• Expiration date - Some cards expire after a certain period of time.

Those are some of the main things to consider when purchasing a prepaid phone card. The problem a lot of the time, is if you buy your card off the shelf at a store, some of these facts may not be revealed to you up-front, especially with all the variables of different countries that may be called, and how that affects these details.

That's why we feel that our portal is so great, it's the most convenient way to buy phone cards, when you buy online, you get the PINs delivered to you instantly via email, you don't have to leave your house. We usually have the lowest rates to most destinations. Plus we detail out all the fees and charges to help you make a good decision on which prepaid calling card to use.

Thank you for visiting our Prepaid Calling Cards section.

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