Prepaid Phone Calling

Prepaid phones, prepaid cellular telephones, and prepaid phone services

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Prepaid telephone calling is a very popular way to make telephone calls, allowing the phone caller to control their spending limits, and not be tied into ongoing commitments or contracts with a telephone service provider.

Prepaid phone cards is a service provided by the various telecom companies that sell their phone services in advance. When you purchase a prepaid phone card, you are in effect paying for the long distance connection time in advance. When you make phone calls using the prepaid phone card, the card's value is deducted based on the connection fees, the duration of the phone connection, surcharges, and any other maintenance charges associated with the phone card.

Prepaid telephone calls are usually implemented in a telephone servider provider's network using the intelligent network functionality. The competitive prices these telephone service providers offer are usually made possible by cost-effective methods such as "least cost routing", and by having lower overheads than the larger telecom companies.

Types Of Prepaid Calling

Telephone Prepaid Calling Cards (better known as Phone Cards in the United States, and in the UK), are available from almost every newsstand, booth, and drugstore. They are usually the cheapest means of making long-distance or even international telephone calls. Also, they offer complete anonymity, as they are sold without a contract. Phone cards sold by retailers are live (active) when they purchased by the buyer. Web sites offer prepaid PINs for calling, thus there is no actual "physical" phone card.

Prepaid Calling Operators offer telephone services to customers who hold accounts with them and have paid their money to the provider in advance. The service is typically accessed by the user dialing a toll-free number from any telephone. The user then authenticates himself with the operator by entering a Personal Information Number (PIN), types in the digits of the number to connect to, and then is connected by the operator to their party. Often these operators have toll-free numbers accessible world-wide, so a customer can access the service from anywhere in the world.

Prepaid Mobile Phones are offered by most mobile phone service providers around the world. Typically all the usual mobile phone services are made available to prepaid phone users, except that they have to "top up" (add money to) their balance in advance before they can be used. This is done via a variety of mechanisms - vouchers (commonly called "power cards"), swipe cards, debit and credit cards. An Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is usually provided to allow the user to find out his current balance by dialing a short code. After the balance has been topped up, a user may make telephone calls, send text messages and listen to voice-mail in the usual way.
 
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Prepaid Phone Calling

Prepaid phone calling is a popular way of making telephone calls which allow the caller to control the spending and not be tied into ongoing commitments with telephone operators and telephone service providers.

Prepaid phone cards is a service provided by various telecom companies that sell their service in advance. When you purchase a prepaid phone card, you are paying for long distance connection time in advance. When you make calls using the prepaid phone card, the card's value is deducted based on connection fee, duration of connection, surcharges and any maintenance charges associated with the phone card.

Prepaid telephone calls are usually implemented in a telephone operators network using the intelligent network functionality. The competitive prices these operators offer are usually made possible by least cost routing and lower overheads than the larger telephone operators.