Saving Up on Overseas Calls

For those who are frequent callers to overseas on the mobile, you must be frustrated by high overseas calling charge by your mobile operators. Why is it so? It's because other than the high IDD charges that the operator charge you, you'll also have to pay the OUTGOING minutes that you used for the IDD calls! IDD calling cards is not going to help you much either. I'm going to share with you how to reduce your overseas calling charges (applies to Singapore only):

Step 1:
Look at those PREPAID mobile calling cards (Hi!card, M card or Green card). These prepaid cards have FREE IDD CALLS to several popular destinations like HongKong, USA, China etc. You can make calls for as low as 8 cents per min!

Step 2: Make sure your intented calling country is included in the free IDD.

Step 3: Remember to compare the charging prices between the card on their websites and read carefully for small prints, cause some charges may be very cheap, but they have over charges hidden like for every call they will deduct a fixed cost first.

Step 4: Buy your chosen prepaid card and insert into your mobile phones and start calling to your loves ones!

For those who don't know about the calling charges of prepaid cards, the cost is 16 cents per min during weekdays (8 am to 7.59 pm), 8 cents per min during weekdays (8pm to 7.59 am) and whole day weekends!

Advantages of prepaid mobile cards:

1. Free IDD calls, charges are much cheaper to call overseas as they only use the local airtime charges
2. Autoroam ability, save way to call when you don't want to lose your subscribed line to overseas.
3. Your own phone sumber, each prepaid card is assigned a phone number
4. Bonus talktime when you top up certain amount and also loyalty bonus

Disadvantage:
1. Hassle of switching the SIM cards when you want to make an overseas call. (I recommend you get an old handphone for your prepaid card so you won't have to switch SIM cards.)