International Calling Card

[DVC'96]

Has anyone purchased one of these recently? My son will be in the UK this summer for 2 weeks and I'd like to get a calling card so he can contact us. Last time I had to do this I went to Sams club and got (I believe) and AT&T card. Is this still a good way to go, or are there better ones out there. He's probably only going to call us once or twice, so it's not worth getting a phone for him.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Green Tea]

Last year I sent my DS with ones from Sprint (?) that were sold at CVS, They wouldn't work!!! He called the company, i called. No luck. they were unusable. So, be careful with which one you buy. I didn't get to talk to mine the whole trip.

 

[SleepyatDVC]

My parents are in Italy right now. I unlocked their razor cell phones through T-mobile and purchased 2 SIM cards for them on ebay.

Do a search on ekit sim card. The card I purchased them was $20 each and included $10 worth of calls on the card. The per minute rates calling OUT to the US was pretty reasonable (there is a per call connection fee though) but the BEST thing is that INCOMING calls while they are in Italy are FREE (to them). And you can monitor his usage on-line and add money to his card with a credit card when needed.

It's working out great.

I call them using onesuite.com and it costs me 0.175 per minute because I am technically calling a UK cell phone. I think he can use onesuite.com to call back home to the US using a UK access number? I would check out these options.

Good luck!

 

[jsmith]

I have a calling "card" with a company called telestial-google for the web site-i use it primarily for calling iraq, kuwait, or afghanistan-can call iraq for 39 cents a minute-they also have gsm phones and sim cards for reasonable prices and free call back services.

 

[JB2K]

Has anyone purchased one of these recently? My son will be in the UK this summer for 2 weeks and I'd like to get a calling card so he can contact us. Last time I had to do this I went to Sams club and got (I believe) and AT&T card. Is this still a good way to go, or are there better ones out there. He's probably only going to call us once or twice, so it's not worth getting a phone for him.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

The AT&T cards are the way to go -- because of the U.S. Military having a presence in the UK, these cards are widely-used to call home.

Before your son leaves the country, get in touch with AT&T to get local access numbers in the UK for calling card calls.