Small prints on international phone cards
Over the years, being in an international marriage inevitably makes us the expert of different types of calling cards. When you look for a phone card to call international, you have to read the small prints! The Big Boy had the habit of skipping that when he helped to pick up phone cards from the gas stations. He often wondered why the phone card that had 500 minutes ran out after a few weeks, without even talking for more than an hour on it!
Well, some phone cards may have a lower rate per minute but charge a connection fee, most also some charge a weekly maintenance fee once you have started using it. In another word, you cannot just decide the card is a good deal based on the rate per minute, you have to make sure the other fees will not eat up all the card values. We have learned to choose a phone card that has the lowest weekly or bi-weekly maintenance fee, as it always come out to be more economical no matter the per minute rate might be higher.
