Long distance calling cards or service

I offer to discuss different calling card services here in this topic. As i intrested in one of the providers http://www.3longdistance.com i can tell about others

I was enjoyed Bigzoo.com before they gone from the business also SkypeOut works well for me but i stopped on www.3longdistance.com

[jb]

Your site is 400% higher than what I currently use.  I suggest you get a better plan and then come back to advertise.  

Cheers mate.

[Son of Clyde]

Oops, that might have been his first and last post.

I have used this one. http://www.masterbell.com/p/info.php/31

[philb]

The prices aren't bad, although the default price quotes are those using the local access number (not available for me).  I currently am paying 12.5 cents a minute to Ukraine (pingo) and, I think, 12.1 using iconnecthere (virtual calling card option).  This site lists a price of 11cents a minute using a toll free access number.

Probably the real issue is the quality and consistancy of connections.  I have tried numerous cards and plans that are basically unusable because of an inability to connect or stay connected.  I may be mistaken but it appears that the minimum fee to sign on is $25.00.  So the question remains, would this $25.00 be money well spent or money thrown away.

[BC]

I use www.dualtalk.com with a sip adapter. Works fine.
Also heard about www.broadvoice.com yesterday but haven't tried it.

[ronin308]

Personally I'm tired of the LD vultures, what good is cheap long distance if you can't here the person on the other end.  Or the service is so inconsistant that you can't make calls all the time.

Currently I'm using my t-mobile phone at something like $1.45 a minute but it is worth it when I don't have to deal with the vulture industry that LD telecom is.  Once the broadband is turned on at the house, I will use Vonage for .15 cents a minute again with excellent results.

Why waste time and money on a POS LD card?

[Bruno]

And if your lady have a computer home, why not use the "speak" function of system like ICQ... it is free... and if she have a good transfer band, you can use the webcam function... speak and video for no money... and good quality

[andrewfi]

Ronin is right. I have been writing this for years. There is no point in paying little for something that does not work. I use Iconnecthere.com and if set up right, it need cost nothing more than the subscription cost to call your girlfriend, penfriend, whatever. Even if you do pay, the cost is negligable, but more than the cost of many cards. The difference inquality is huge, you can call from a pc or ordinary phone and I have never had a billing issue.

As with many things, pareto applies, you can save 80% of the money and lose only 20% of the quality - compared to the best possible. Try to save more money and the quality drops away rapidly in terms of billing, call quality, line access.

[BC]

It is nice while travelling to use available free wireless service with your laptop and have longer phone conversations without the VERY high cost of mobile roaming. Can't do that with ATT

[andrewfi]

Nokia are bringing out, in Europe, a WiFi enabled mobile. In countries like Estonia with very many, free or almost free nodes VOIP over WiFi will become very common indeed. If I were buying a PDA today, VOIP over WiFi would need to be easily available.

[andrewfi]

I was not suggesting Nokia were the first to market, they rarely are. If I was, I would have written so. But the Zyxel product is not a GSM or WCDMA unit, so it is pretty much useless, its functionality, in practice, is less than the DECT unit I already use at home. The Nokia units incorporate both WiFI and GSM/EDGE/WCDMA and thus are proper cellular phones with the additional ability to use WiFi connections where available and using Java applications to use either SIP or Skype based services. This is a godsend for corporate environments and will significantly impact on cost of use. I think, given the market segments Nokia is addressing, that the target is not the casual user sitting in a bar, or cafe, but business users in a tailored WiFi environment. Use 'in the wild' will, except in heavily WiFi covered areas such as Tallinn, in Estonia, be rare for a long time.

It will be the Nokia products that will define the market and provide the reference designs. VOIP over WiFi will change the face of the telecoms market.

 

[dostogirl]

I've been using Masterbell for quite a long time (around 2 years I think). No problems at all

[al-c]

I use www.alio,com.  It costs me 3 1/2 cents a minute to call St. Petersburg, and the sound is crystal clear.  There are better services, but not for this low price.

 

[al-c]

What about the reverse, calling the U.S. from Russia?  I would like to give my lady the ability to call me without having to pay for it.  Of special interest would be a service I could set up that would limit her free calling just to me, but that is not essential.

So can anybody suggest such a service for a good price?

 

[schlegs]

We've been using an SIP adapter (ATA) and SipDiscount.com for apprx $0.015 per minute to Russia.  Most times the call is pretty good.  Sometimes we get an echo and sometimes complete drop out on one end or another.  Hang up, call again, and you get a good connection.

If that doesn't work, we use the Mozart card for just under $0.07/min (gen Russia) from http://autorefill.pushline.com/  Always good clarity with them.