I have a pre-paid (MCI) card that used to charge 2 units for a call
> made from a pay phone. At 6 cents/minute I didn't mind the 12 cent
> surcharge on the connection. Sometime this year? they jacked it up to
> 18 units so it is now a whopping $1.08 surcharge for a pay phone call.
> Is there a site that compares how much surcharge there is from
> different calling cards? I do not travel much and use the pay phones
> when in roaming territory for my cell phone.
Go to
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and look for CALLING CARD LONG DISTANCE PHONE RATES.
It doesn't list every card, but you can see that most of them charge between 30 and 65 cents per call.