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Below are some calling card articles that we have compiled for your convinience.

Easy Calling Card Use with iPhone
Article about new application available for iPhone users to have calling cards information stored on their phones for easy one touch use.

How Long Distance Phone Calls Work
Article about the definition of long distance calls and how long distance calls work. Technical process of long distance call starting from your home to your calling destination from ten to thousand miles away..

What is Prepaid Phone Card, Calling Card?
Telephone cards (phone cards for short) or calling cards are credit-card-sized cards that are used for paying phone service. Phone cards are popular not only because they are convinient, but also affordable.

Pros & Cons of Prepaid Phone Cards
Prepaid phone cards often offer much lower international and domestic long distance rates than the residential service from major phone companies. Prepaid phonecards enable you to make calls to anywhere from anywhere. You can call from home, office, or hotel using home phone, pay phone, or cell phone. International phone cards provide solutions to many situations. If you like travelling, a calling card is your best friend to keep in touch with your family and friends back home. It can help you avoid outrageous hotel surcharges.

Calling Cards History
The first phone card was introduced in Italy in 1976 by a pay phone operator, SIDA, who created a magnetic stripe card to use in their phones instead of change.

How to Choose the Right Calling Card
1. Familiarize yourself with calling card terms & minutes counting. 2. Know your need. 3 Understand your options.

Phone Card Terms
In order to be able to make the right calling card selection, you need to know about the terms that is frequently used in prepaid phone cards. In the article, the most common calling cards terms are explained.

How Phone Cards Rates are Computed
When you use a phone card, the cost of calls is deducted from the balance based on connection fee, duration of call, surcharges, and any maintance charges associated with phone card. Minutes start to be deducted when the call is connected (around 30-45 seconds after the connection RING) even though there is no ANSWER. If you do not get an answer in the first 30-45 seconds, after the first ring, please hang-up and call again.

How to Use Phone Cards
To place calls using prepaid phone card, you must use a touch-tone telephone, and follow a few simple steps:
- Purchase phone card, and get your PIN number and access codes
- Dial the toll-number or the Local Access Number from any phone
- Listen to the voice instructions
- Enter your PIN number
- The prompt will tell you the balance of the phone card
- Enter the destination number (for most phone cards, it starts with 011 + country dialing code + area code + phone number)
- The prompt will tell you how many minutes available for that call

Why Buy Calling Card from PhoneCard Stop?
PhoneCard Stop strives to provide the best choices of calling cards and the best service to our customers. We always try to meet every customer's calling needs. Our phone cards are carefully selected and tested before we sell them to our customer. By purchasing phone card from us, you do not have to worry anymore about your long distance bills because our prepaid phone cards come with zero maintenance fees, zero joining fees and zero monthly subscription fees.