The major calling cards detail is the maintenance fee. It is applied on your calling card as a set fee incurring at specific intervals. Most of the calling cards companies offer a variety of phone cards for which the maintenance fee ranges between 0 and 99 cents and may be applied on the phone card on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
The trick question is how often does the maintenance fee occur on your calling card. This feature is strongly connected to another major detail of calling cards: rounding.
You should notice that the higher the maintenance fee the lower the rate per minute for the destination. So, how do you choose which calling card is best for you? The answer lies in how frequent your calls are.
If you place a lot of calls in a short period of time (i.e. You use up your calling card in one week) then perhaps you should get yourself a phone card with a higher maintenance fee because that way it won`t be taken off the balance of the calling card more than once. In this case scenario you will use up most of your balance on calls.
If you use a calling card rarely or seldom it would be better to buy phone cards with a lower and, if possible, non existant maintenance fee. That way the system won`t eat up the balance on your calling card in time.
If you`re somewhere in between the above situations my advice would be for you to get a prepaid calling card with a low maintenance fee applied on a monthly basis.
Before going to the top calling card companies, please take your time to read also the rest of the material on calling cards details:
CALLING CARDS MENU PAGES
TOP long distance calling cards providers
USA (United States) ---> 0.8¢
INDIA ---> 8.3¢
UNITED KINGDOM ---> 0.95¢
CANADA ---> 0.89¢
ROMANIA ---> 6.40¢
GERMANY ---> 1.33¢
RUSSIA ---> 2.40¢
AUSTRALIA ---> 0.90¢
BULGARIA ---> 2.40¢
PAKISTAN ---> 7.00¢