Re: [76attendees] International phone cards?

Peter Lovell <plovell@mac.com> Thu, 05 November 2009 00:57 UTC

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

>Greetings again. Is there advice on good/bad international phone cards
>for calling from Hiroshima to the US? I have an international card that
>will cost me about US$0.25/min, but I suspect there may local cards that
>cost less.
>
>--Paul Hoffman, Director
>--VPN Consortium

My plan for calls back to U.S. is to use Skype. It's only a couple of
cents a minute to call a regular phone, to a computer is free.

I've not used it to/from Japan but to Europe and Australia has been fine.

Regards.....Peter