subject: Calling Cards: A Medium To Reduce Your Billing Amount [print this page] If you are afraid to make the calls to abroad to your friends due to the high calling rates so to avoid this hurdle these calling cards are being introduced in the market. With the help of these cards now it is not a big deal to stay connected to your people living far away from you. It not only meant to reduce the calling rates for international calls but it also provide the cheap calling rates for domestic calls. There are two types of card available in the market as prepaid cards and post paid cards. Post paid cards are avoided to some extent as it does not make you aware with the instant updates of your billing amount and on top of that it is not available with the effective offers which you can simply get in prepaid card facility.
Prepaid Calling Cards are identical to pay as you go phones in which you can credit your account as and when needed. It keeps you aware of your expenses made on phone to call the desired people. Prepaid cards are further classified in to one more category i.e. they are rechargeable and non-rechargeable cards. In rechargeable cards as the name suggests can be recharged with the desired amount whenever the amount in the card is about to be zero. Another category is the non-rechargeable cards which can be recharged further they are only meant to be used only once. They are basically introduced to reduce your calling rates for a short span of time.
There are certain points to remember while going to buy these calling cards such as first of all you should consider the rates charged per minute by calculating the destination of the call and call made by the original country. Minutes rounding technique, connection fees, maintenance fees and communication fees. The most important point which you should keep in mind is the expiration period of the card which varies for different cards
