Picking A Long Distance Service
On the left is a list of links to websites about long distance services. They contain links to long distance search engines, long distance telephone companies and compare the prices of most long distance companies in the US. I will continue to ad links to long distance websites as I find them, in the meantime though, here are a few of things to look for in long distance telephone companies.
- Try not to 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, like AT&T charges, 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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