Long Distance Information
On the right is a list of links to websites about cheap long distance service. They contain links
to long distance search engines, long distance telephone companies and they compare the prices of
most long distance carriers in the US. I will continue to ad links to long distance websites as I
find them, in the meantime though, here is a list of three things to look for in a long distance
company.
- Never pay a monthly fee.
- Some companies charge you a monthly fee to buy in to their cheap telephone rates. If you pay
\$7.95 per month to buy in to their plan and you only use 400 minutes of long distance, you just
raised your cost per minute by about 2¢.
- Never sign up for a plan with a variable rate.
- Never sign up for a plan that charges you different prices depending on what day it is or
what time it is. Where's the convenience in that? Oh Boy, you just saved a penny, but you had to
make the phone call at midnight on Tuesday. That's not a very good deal if you ask us. Especially
when we know of 7-8 long distance telephone companies that offer the same low rates 24/7 and
still charge you less than other company's "Cheap Times".
- Find a company that offers multi-minute billing.
- What that means is that they break the minute up into segments and only bill you to the
nearest segment. If they're billing you in 6 second increments, then a 2.2 minute call, at
5¢ per minute, would cost you 11¢. That very same call made through a company that
billed by the minute, would cost you 15¢. Make 200 calls over a month and the difference is
\$8.00 for the exact same calls. Add in the $7.95 you paid for their plan, and you've already
wasted $15.95.
Go here
to see a cost comparison of AT&T, MCI, Opex,
Unitel and PNG long distance
services.
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