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Phone Card Consulting - How to suceed in phone card business

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Phone Card Industry Overview
The business of making and distributing phone cards is a facinating multi-billion dollar business. Phone Card distribution has a very low cost of entry. On the surface it is a very simple business. Use some phone cards, buy some phone cards... sell some phone cards... make a profit.

Yes it is a very simple business. Yet to suceed can be overwhelming. Because of its unique attributes, phone cards make and interesting study. Many of the customers have no other way of maintaing contact with loved ones at home. Customers include migrant farm workers from south of the border, and other recent immigrants or temporary workers visiting the USA from Africa, Eastern Europe, the Islands, and Asia.

Phone cards are most popular among customers who have not yet established credit cards, banking accounts, or home ownership. The typical phone card customer has been resident in the USA for less than 10 years. As customers become more established in their new country, they also can consider other alternatives to the phone card as a method of calling home. However, the phone card remains attractive as an easy to package, easy to distribute method for customers to call home.

Ease of Entry
There is very little barrier to entry into the phone card distribution business. Anyone who can put together a few hundred dollars can buy phone cards from a wholesale distributor and sell them to stores or individuals in their community.

This ease of entry attracts immigrants themselves to become phone card distributors. Often the foreign born American has difficulty finding a job in their area of expertise. The first thing the immigrant learns about their new city is the location of ethnic grocery stores where they can buy the kind of food they know and love. The immigrant quickly seeks out a place of worship according to their faith, and he or she seeks out other's who speak their language, understand their culture, and can provide a support network. It is understandable therefore, that this indivual seeks out an opportunty to sell phone cards within their ethnic community. Moreover, this individual tries out every new phone card that avertises good rates to their home country, so he quickly becomes an expert on the various phone card products, connection fees, and which card is good and which is no so good.

Market Opportunities

There are a number of different approaches to the marketplace that the distributor must consider. Sometimes the distributor simply does what comes natural, and sometimes they analyse the demographics and do more traditional market research. Some of the options include:
Direct to Consumer: Sell directly to end users through your personal network
Online website: Sell online via a website
Retail Store - buy cards for sale to existing walk-in customers
Small Distributor -Sell to Retail stores
Large Distributor or Master Distributor - Sells to Retail stores and Smaller Distributors
Partner Distributors - Works with other distributors to build a competitive advantage
Exclusive Distributor - establish relationship with card issuer, whereby you have exclusive distribution rights of a given product in your region(s).
Private Label provider - design and create a phone card with an exclusive rate deck.
Facility based phone card company - create rate decks, issue pins, manage terminations routes, manage origination routes.
Virtual switch based company - same as facility based phone card company, except that you never touch the hardware. All of the management is done via third party company. You negotiate for your own routes, test and implement the routes, and manage rates decks.

Each of the above represents a niche opportunity. A distributor may choose to play in one or more of the above arenas. Often the growth path will take a distributor from one playing field to another limited only by the businessman's resources and skills.

Disaster Opportunites
There are many opportunities for the distributor to loose money in the prepaid calling card distribution business.

Supplier goes out of business - the bigger they are the harder they fall
Customer writes fraudulent check - even certified checks can be fake
Many opportunities for facility based carriers to loose money
Regulatory issues and potential penalties

Questions for your Consultant

Should I consider my own phone card switch or a virtual switch?
How do I create a Private Label product
How do I negotiate the best rate deck for my target country?
What kind of potential does the phone card business have?
How do I differentiate myself from my competition?
How can I get a store to take phone cards from me?
Can you help me negotiate more minutes and better discount to my target countries?
How do I sell PINs online?
How should I handle returns? What kind of guarantee should I offer my cusotmers? Can I trust my supplier's guarantee?
How can I increase traffic to my online phone card website?
How should I price my phone cards?
What kind of accounting system should I use in the phone card business?
How do I take advantage of technology to grow my business and be more competitive?
Should I have a business partner?
How much money can I make as a phone card distributor?
I have a friend with a switch... How can I negotiate a sucessful business venture with him?
I have a network of more than 1000 people from my home country. How can I parle this into phone card profits?
What are the biggest phone card markets?
What other synergistic products can I offer to compliment my phone card business?
How do I find "clean" phone cards?
Who are the best phone card issuers in the industry?
How can I buy good routes for my switch?
How can I become more competitive?
Should I sell consignment?
How can I find the best phone cards for my region?
Can tell me the ethnic makeup for my zip codes? How many foreign born live in my city, and what countries and regions are they from? What other cities do people from my target market live?
Can you help me design and print my own phone cards?
How do I get more retail store customers? How do I keep them as my customer?
What should I expect from my supplier? Can I get usage reports? Can I expect to know my actual rate deck? How often will my rate deck change? Will my supplier tell me the truth?
How do I get in the carrier termination business?
How do I open a call shop?
I have contacts in my home country. How can I set up origination and termination services in my home country?
How do I create a PINless phone card?
How do I create a rechargable phone card?
How do I hire an employee to sell my phone cards? How much should I pay them?
How much inventory do I need? How much cash reserve do I need?
What kind of terms should I expect from my suppliers?
Should I offer consignment to my cusotmers?
Can I add PINless long distance services to cell phones?
How do I sell prepaid cell phones? What prepaid wireless brands are available?
Are there legal issues I need to be concerned with?
Should I be in the prepaid phone card business? Why? Why not?

Consulting Services

To get the answers to these and other questions contact Bob Collett at 440-457-7209. Bob has more than 10 years experience in every aspect of the phone card industry, and more 20 years of telecommunications and consulting experience.

Why should you hire me?

I have owned and operated two phone card switches, I have owned a CLEC, I have owned a switchless reseller business, I have operated a virtual switch, I spent two years buying and selling wholesale international terminaton servcies, I built a local phone card distribution of more than $450,000 per month in less than 6 months, I have owned and operated a sucessful online retail phone card business, and owned and operated a sucessful online wholesale phone card business, I have survived the demise of numerous mega phone card suppliers, I have experienced fraud at various levels, I have developed multiple private label products using various suppliers as well as our own switches.

You deserve to have a "partner" who you can trust, who will represent your interest in the phone card industry. You need someone who knows the industry and will help you negotiate with your potential suppliers, and steer you clear of mistakes.

My normal consulting fee for established companies is $70 per hour. Take advantage our my phone card distributor "incubator" consulting fee of only $35 per hour, based upon an initial 10 hour consultancy spread over multiple sessions. Once you are established and sucessful, your hourly fee may ramp up based upon your ability to pay and your need for additional services.

The first phone call is free.

Felicidad phone card issued by ATI

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:24:00 +0000

ATI has introduced a new Latin America phone card for home to Mexico, Central America and South America. The Felicidad prepaid phone card features 90 minutes to Guatemala land lines, and 65 minutes to Guatemala cell phones for $5. Felicidad phone card is also available in $2 denomination. Call 75 minutes to Honduras land lines, and 50 minutes to Honduras cell phones.

Check the phone card poster and you will see that you can call Mexico up to 800 minutes if you are calling into the Golden Triangle area. Felicidad also advertised minutes to Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize, Chili and El Salvador.

The just released ATI phone card offers rates that will be in effect through December 15, 2009. Service is provided by SCI. I do not know the relationship between ATI and SCI. Like all phone cards issued by major phone card companies, the rates advertised on the posters are only guaranteed for the first 30 days.

All ATI phone cards are available for wholesale distribution to stores and route distributors from Phone Card Hotline and from www.hellocallingcards.com for direct discount sale to consumers.

ATI Eid Mubarak phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:56:00 +0000

ATI Eid Mubark phone card just issued November 25, 2009. Good for calling home. Available from Phone Card Hotline call 440-457-7209 or visit http://www.phonecardhotline.com/ to order.

This new phone card allows you to call India 160 minutes for $5. Good for Baghdad, Iraq 135 minutes, Kenya phone card 200 minutes, Kuwait phone card 79, Mali 50, Morocco 95, Pakistan 100, Lebanon phone card 70, Syria 56, Yemen phone card 45 minutes.

ATI Phone Cards for Africa

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:52:00 +0000

ATI, the California phone card company has issued four new phone cards in the 4th quarter of 2009 for calling home to Africa. These include Africa Tradition phone card, Africa Middle East Demand phone card, African Roots phone card, and African Hearts phone card. The posters for each of the new ATI Africa phone cards are available for viewing at our Phone Card Hotline Flickr location

African Heart

The Africa phone cards are good for calling all of the countries in Africa.

The newest card Africa Tradition also offeres a PINless dialing feature, and a rechargeable feature.

Like all ATI phone cards and most other phone cards as well, these cards deliver the maximum minutes during the first month or two after they have been issued.

To order any of the ATI phone cards, contact www.phonecardhotline.com for wholesale orders. Consumers can order direct at www.hellocallingcards.com . For more information call 440-457-7209 or fax 440-2016340

WCDI

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:00 +0000

We continue to recieve phone calls from consumers and stores asking for a refund for WCDI product. http://www.phonecardhotline.com/ and http://www.hellocallingcards.com/ purchased directly from WCDI for a number of years, but after some of their products stopped working, we discontinued offering the WCDI product line. There is not now, nor has there ever been an affiliation between phonecardhotline and WCDI or any of its principles or between hellocallingcards and WCDI or any of its principals.

We have already issued refunds or credits to any customers of phonecardhotline or hellocallingcards who purchased WCDI product from us.

If you have WCDI product that is not working, I suggest you contact the store or distributor where you purchased the phone cards. If you purchased directly from WCDI, you will need to contact them directly. They are a California company. West Coast Distributor Inc.

This continues to be very confusing, because we have heard that WCDI went out of business, but people continue to report that they have recently bought their product from them directly.

I welcome any input you might have. Perhaps some WCDI staff can enlighten us.

Page Plus Talk n Text 1200

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:00 +0000

Page Plus has announced their new "Talk n Text 1200" plan on October 9, 2009. The Talk n Text prepaid wireless plan includes 1200 domestic voice minutes, 1200 domestic test messages (SMS) or Multimedia messagin Service (MMS) and 50 megabytes of data.

The price for the above Talk n Text 1200 plan is $29.95 per month.

This follows the highly sucessful Page Plus $39.95 per month unlimited plan.

Page Plus rides on top of the Verizon Network.

The $39.95 Page Plus cards are available wholesale to retail stores from Phone Card Hotline for as low as $33.50 per card.

http://www.phonecardhotline.com

For more information contact me at collett@phonecardhotline.com or call 440-457-7209.

Pinoy Power phone card for Philippines and Asia issued by TCI Total Call International

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0000

Pinoy Power phone card is a new prepaid phone card for calling Philippines, and other countries in Asia. The minutes are provided by Total Call.

Advertised minutes for Philippines land is 54 minutes on the $5 phone cad and 44 minutes to call Philippine cellular numbers.

Pinoy Power advertises 24 minutes to Myanmar - Burma.

To purchase Pinoy Power contact

http://www.phonecardhotline.com

Cape Haze Resort Vacation Rental by Owner

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:13:00 +0000

We have just purchased a new luxury vacation rental condominium in beautiful Cape Haze Florida a Cape Haze Resorts on Placida Highway. Cape Haze is located 30 minutes south of Sarasota Florida on Lemon Bay. Cape Haze Resort is about 3 miles from Boca Grande and right next to Don Pedro State Park. This area offers some of the best fishing anywhere. We offer special discounts to customers of Phone Card Hotline or Hellocallingcards.com. Call 440-457-7209 for visit our website for details.

Cape Haze Resort Vacation Rental

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:20:00 +0000

We have just recently acquired a luxury vacation condominium located in Cape Haze Florida on Placida Highway. Our Cape Haze Resort condominium is offered for rent to all of our friends and customers. You can save big during the fall and spring. Relax, enjoy the pool, walk the nearby beachs, shoot a round of golf, and enjoy some of the best tarpon and snook fishing in all of Florida.

IDT buys Union Telecard from Carlos Gomes

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:30:00 +0000

IDT announced today that it was buying the remaining 49% of Union Telecard. Union Telecard (UTA) was founded in May 2003 to distribute the phone cards issued by IDT. According to the terms that were announced, Carlos Gomez Trust walks away with $6.9 million from the deal.

The UTA brands have not been selling nearly as well in the northeastern Ohio market as they have in the past. At one point UTA was about 20% of our sales, but they frequently changed policies over the past few years and made it difficult for us to support their product line. Hopefully this move will bring on new changes that will give us reason to promote their product line.

Fil-AM Rising phone card - local access numbers

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:37:00 +0000

Fil Am Rising phone card issued by Transpac.
click here for poster

Click on image to see larger numbers.

Fil-Am phone card is targeted for calling home to Philippines with 55 minutes advertised on the $5 phone card for land lines, and 45 minutes to Philippines cellular. Issue May 2009 by Transpac. Network service is provided by LLD. Also features Fiji Islands 30 - Cambodia 130 Indonesia 325 to Jarkarta - Myanmar 20 minutes - Laos 130 minutes - Tonga 30 minutes - thailand 600 minutes - Vietnam Saigon & Hanoi 190 minutes - Mongolia 95 minutes cellular 85.

Here is the card back with the local access numbers;

MTC le monde Africa local access numbers

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:15:00 +0000

Always use a local access number to get the maximum minutes from any phone card. Here is the front and the back of le monde Africa. Search here for local access numbers for your favorite phone card.

I have also included a higher resolution of the card back. Please let me know if I should add more local access numbers via card back images.

Two dollar phone card - $2 phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Market demand for the $2 phone card continues to increase. Here is the good and the bad of this trend. All of the major phone card companies charge significant fees immediately after completion of the first phone call, or at midnight after the first phone call. Consumers have learned the hard way, that if they want to get the maximum value out of their favorite phone card, it usually pays to purchase the lowest denomination possible.
(The exception is that phone cards such as the Integrity phone card that have no maintenance fees or surcharges over multiple calls originating from a land line or from a cell phone when using a local access number. If there are no fees, then there is no need to purchase the $2 version of the phone card.)
Unfortunately, very few online websites offer the $2 phone card. The reason for this is that credit card service fees charged by the merchant service providers make it cost prohibitive to offfer a $2 transaction online. Hellocallingcards.com is one of the few websites that continues to offer the $2 calling card. To defray part of the cost of the merchant service fee, hellocallingcards.com apply a small premium to any transaction less than $10. However, customers who have a favorite national brand $2 calling card, can purchase 5 of them to avoid any purchase premium.

Easy phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Yesterday somebody asked me for the Easy phone card. I never heard of this phone card, but they are asking for it because somebody used it and referred a customer to this phone card. Now soome stores want it, and they are calling me.

A new phone card comes out every day. I will try to find the good ones and bring them to you. Here is what I need to know.

1.) What is the name of the phone card
2.) Who is the issuer. This is usually printed on the front of the phone card.
3.) Who is the service provider. This is usually printed in small type on the bottom of the back of the phone card. If it is not clear who the network service provider is, then they are probably trying to conceal their identity.
4.) Who is the distributor. Sometimes, but not always, a phone number is given to locate the nearest distributor.
5.) What country is the phone card good for. This is the most important thing to know. How many minutes does it advertise to that country and how many minutes does it delivery.
6.) Is there a fee. Forget the fine print. Make a phone call today. Talk for a few minutes, then try again to make another call tomorrow. Keep track of what the card announces each time and how long you actually talk.
7.) Scan the front of the card and the back of the card and send it to me.

I will let you know what I find. Most of the comments I get are from schills (distributors pretending to be customers) telling me about some great phone card or a great website.

CTA 1010 phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:45:00 +0000

CTA - Clifton Telecard has introduced a new phone card called 1010 phone card. The published rates are for based upon one call. Traditionally, CTA offers maximum minutes on their newest phone cards. CTA is no longer providing posters for the 1010 phone card.

Country	Minutes on $5
Brazil phne card	227
Brazil Mobile	62
Mexico phone card	90
Mexico Mobile	70
Guatemala phone card	55
El Salvador phone card	40
El Salvador 40	40
Colombia phone card	200
Colombia mobile	96
Costa Rica phone card	119
Costa Rica mobile	106
Ecuador phone card	50
Ecuador mobile	40
Egypt phone card	70
Egypt mobile	70
Ethiopia phoen card	27
Haiti phone card	40
Haiti mobile phone card	35
Honduras phone card	80
Honduras mobile phone card	42
India	250
India mobile	357
Jordan phone card	285
Jordan mobile phone card	100
Kenya phone card	65
Kenya mobile phone card	60
Lebanon phone card	75
Lebanon mobile	50
Liberia phone card	25
Morocco phone card	75
Morocco mobile	22
Nigeria phone card	60
Philippines phone card	50
Syria phone card	47
Syria mobile	37

ATI International California phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:57:00 +0000

ATI International California phone card was introduced in June 2009 by Alliance Telecom in California. Network Service is provided by Sunycell, Inc. Advertused minutes are based upon a single call originating from a local access number.

ATI is known for delivering more minutes to Africa than any other phone cards. Recent Africa phone cards include ATI Africa phone card, Mr Africa phone card, More Africa phone card, My Africa phone card, and Bongo Africa.

With a new African phone card released every month or so, it is reasonable to assume that each rate deck is a little different and each features more minutes to some African countries and less minutes to other African countries. It is also safe to assume that when the new African phone card is issued, the older ones begin to deliver less minutes.

ATI joins the rest of the major companies in the industry by disclosing that the rates advertised on the printed poster are only good until the expiration date on the poster. In the case of the ATI International California phone card, the poster includes a notice to store owners: "Please remove poster after 6-30-09

Here are some of the rates:.

Country	Minutes on $5
Algeria phone card	75
Algeria cell phone card	50
Burundi phone card	80
Cameroon phone card	54
Douala phone card	56
Chad phone card	65
Comoros phone card	24
Congo phone card	53
Djibouti phone card	25
DR Congo - Zair	36
Kinshasa phone card	24
Egypt phone card	68
Equatoria Guinea	32
Eritrea phone card	35
Ethiopia phone card	40
Gabon phone card	60
Gambia phone card	26
Ghana phone card	100
Guinea phone card	38
Ivory Coast phone card	34
Kenya phone card	72
Liberia phone card	28
Libya Phone Card	35
Madagascar phone card	35
Mali phone card	48
Mauriania phone card	40
Morocco phone card	52
nigeria phone card	70
Senegal phone card	58
Sierra Leone phone card	26
Somalia phone card	16
South Africa phone card	100
Johannesburg phone card	120
Sudan phone card	68
Swaziland phone card	63
Tanzania phone card	60
Togo phone card	25
Tunisia phone card	23
Uganda phone card	60
Zambia phone card	120
Zimbabwe phone card	80

Integrity Phone Card - new rates - no fees

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:41:00 +0000

Integrity Phone Card is issued by Phone Card Hotline with network service provided by Dollar Phone has announced new lower rates to many international destinations. This phone card has taken a novel approach to the phone card market by delivering 100% of the avertised minutes over multiple calls and it does not expire until 6 months after its last use.

The Integrity phone card has no connection fees, no surcharges, no maintenance fees, and no other hidden fees. When using a local access number Integrity no fee phone card delivers 100% of the advertised minutes. When accessing the phone card using a toll free 800 number, the Integrity no fee phone card announces minutes that reflects that added cost of toll free access. The actual additional cost of toll free access is approximately one cent per minute. When accessing the Integrity phone card via pay phone, there is a payphone surcharge between $.75 and $.99 which reflects the additional cost imposed by the pay phone provider.

In summary, as long as the consumer accesses the Integrity phone card using a local access number from a land line or from a cell phone, there are no fees whatsoever. Since most cell phones today offer free domestic long distance, it is easy to avoid the higher toll free 800 surcharge. Also, local access numbers are offered from more than 100 major metropolitan areas across the USA.

We know of no other international phone card brands being sold in the stores today that has no fees and delivers 100% of the minutes advertised on the poster. Most phone card companies posters now disclose that the rates advertised on the poster are good for only 30 days from the date of issue!

Integrity is good for calling both domestic and international, and especially good when calling cell phones or to land lines that frequently drop calls because there are no fees.

The Integrity phone card was originally designed to sell to workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Uganda, and other countries who work for the US military at Balad Air Base in Iraq. This is why it has no fees. Additioanlly, the State Reseach Foundation of NY, buys only the Integrity phone card and gives them away as part of their migrant farm worker program, because they wanted an honest prepaid phone card with no fees.

Also, stores who sell the Integrity phone card may also have the option to sell recharge minutes to be added to the card, and call history is available as needed.

Following are some of the current rates for Integrity including the minutes on a $5 phone card.

Name	Rate	$5.00
Afghanistan	0.288	17
Albania	0.069	72
Albania Cell	0.265	19
Albania Tirana	0.058	87
Azerbaijan	0.128	39
Azerbaijan Baku	0.088	57
Azerbaijan Cell	0.164	30
Bahrain	0.082	61
Bangladesh	0.040	125
Bosnia	0.144	35
Bosnia Cell	0.288	17
Canada	0.012	435
Croatia	0.038	130
Croatia Cell	0.192	26
Cyprus	0.019	261
Cyprus Cell	0.058	87
Czech Republic	0.019	261
Egypt	0.091	55
Egypt Cell	0.063	80
France	0.013	391
France Cell	0.144	35
Germany	0.013	391
Germany Cell	0.144	35
India	0.028	180
Iran	0.077	65
Iraq	0.072	70
Iraq Baghdad	0.038	130
Iraq Cell	0.144	35
Israel	0.008	600
Israel Cell	0.071	70
Israel Palestine	0.167	35
Israel Palestine Cell	0.200	25
Jordan	0.011	450
Jordan Cell	0.050	100
Kazakhstan	0.077	65
Kazakhstan Cell	0.144	35
Kuwait	0.050	100
Kuwait Cell	0.083	60
Kyrgyzstan	0.088	57
Lebanon	0.077	65
Lebanon Cell	0.156	32
Libya	0.288	17
Macedonia	0.115	43
Macedonia Cell	0.288	17
Oman	0.192	26
Pakistan	0.127	39
Pakistan Cell	0.127	39
Palestine	0.164	35
Poland	0.016	304
Poland Cell	0.116	43
Qatar	0.230	22
Romania	0.048	104
Romania Bucharest	0.041	122
Romania Cell	0.192	26
Russia	0.033	152
Russia Cell	0.069	72
Russia Moscow	0.008	609
Russia St. Petersburg	0.012	435
Saudi Arabia	0.063	80
Saudi Arabia Cell	0.125	40
Saudi Arabia Riyadh	0.022	225
Serbia	0.077	65
Serbia Cell	0.230	22
Slovenia	0.036	139
Slovenia Cell	0.288	17
Sudan	0.144	35
Sudan Cell	0.164	31
Syria	0.125	40
Tajikistan	0.096	52
Togo	0.203	25
Turkey	0.014	350
Turkey Cell	0.100	50
Turkmenistan	0.128	39
United Arab Emirates	0.125	40
United Arab Emirates Cell	0.135	37
USA	0.012	435
Uzbekistan	0.092	54
Uzbekistan Tashkent	0.072	70
Yemen Arab Republic	0.125	40
India Mobile	0.028	180
Jamaica	0.088	57
Jordan Amman	0.011	450
Mexico City	0.012	435
Namibia	0.096	52
Nicaragua	0.144	35
Peru	0.033	150
Peru Lima	0.016	304
Philippines	0.144	35
Philippines Cell	0.164	30
Rwanda	0.128	39
Slovakia	0.038	130
Slovakia Cell	0.192	26
Syria Cell	0.152	33
Togo Cell	0.289	17
Uganda	0.115	43
United Kingdom	0.010	478
Uruguay	0.077	65
Vietnam	0.105	48

Click here to see all of the advertised Integrity rates

Cheers Phone Card Series

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:09:00 +0000

Cheers Asia Africa & Middle East phone card

Total Call International has issued the Cheers phone card with numerous faces all featuring the same rate deck. For calling Latin America the brand includes Cheers Mexico phone card, Cheers Ecuador phone card, Cheers El Salvador phone card, Cheers Guatemala phone card, Cheers Honduras phone card and Cheers Nicaragua phone card with 62 minutes on the $5 calling card.

Cheers Mexico phone card advertises 1688 minutes to Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey. To the Pricipal Ciudades Cheers advertises 588 minutes, to the rest of Mexico they advertise 120 minutes. Mexico cell phone is advertised as 76 minutes.

There is also a card face Cheers Asia Afrca and Middle East phone card with the following countries featured: Algeria 100 minutes, Bangladesh 150 minutes, Cambodia 154 minutes, Myanmar 20 minutes, Palestine 30 minutes, Hanoi Vietnam 240 minutes, Nairobi Kenya 400 minutes, Addis Abab 39 minutes, Philippines 56 minutes, Karachi Pakistan 250 minutes.

Cheers Mexico phone card

The poster for the Cheers phone card was printed by TCI - Total Call International on June 22, 2009 and announces that the advertised minutes are for a single call made before the expiration date of July 17, 2009. This means that by the time the phone card gets put on the shelves, the advertised minutes are no longer accurate. This is the "approved" disclosure method that most phone card companies are using today.

The disclosure continues... After the applicable expiration date, rate changes will reduce advertised minutes up to 50% and by more if costs to TCI change substantially. Rates and fees are subject to change without notice. For current pricing call 1-888-569-9653. Cheers also includes a toll free access surchage of up to $.05 per minute.

La Vida Mas Loca phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:47:00 +0000

Cristel Telecom has released two new phone cards. Today's Special phone card is promoted as being good for Philippines, and Philippines cell. Meg at Cristel Telecom says the Today's Special phone card is very good because it offers the same minutes for cell phone termination to many destinations to be the same as for land lines. This card advertises many regions around the world rather than just one region.

Today's Special phone card is a good compliment to a phone card portfolio that needs an all around phone card especially good for Philippines, Asia and Central America.

La Vida Mas Loca phone card by Cristel Telecom is being promoted for calling home to all of Mexico, Central America and South America. Meg says this one is very good for Mexico cell phone termination.

Cristel Telecom has issued two phone new phone cards. One is La Vida Mas Loca and the other is Today's Special.

MTC Millenium Telecard le monde Africa phone card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:42:00 +0000

Calling Card Review - Millenium Telecard - Le monde Africa
I have recently begun offering the Millenium Telecard MTC product line. So far my experience has been good. Le monde Africa is offered by MTC offers and is available at phonecardhotline.com

Following is a list of other MTC phone cards issued by Millenium Telecard. Call for maximum wholesale discounts or advice. Call 440-457-7209

The newest product is Le Mondee Africa which features Yemen at 60 minutes, Tunisia 50, Liberia 33, Ghana 142, Cape Verde 50, Togo 25, Liberia 25, Egypt 90.
Here are some of the other MTC phone cards we can offer. Let me know if you have any interest:
MTC Paleta phone card network provided by Locus
MTC City prepaid phone card
Miss Ecuador
MTC One phone card
MTC African Jungle phone card by Locus Telecommunications
MTC Golden Dollar phone card service by SCI good for Mexico and Central America
MTC Millenium Telecard Samba Novo
MTC Bacanisimo prepaid phone card
MTC Miss Guatemala phone card
MTC Vivelo el Salvador
MTC Tel Asia issued November 2008
MTC Xce;;emt [jpme card servoce [rpvoded bu TCN issued Jan 2008
MTC hola Corazon tarjeta prepagada issued July 2009 for calling Central America, Mexico and South America.
MTC Comcel phone card issued June 2009 for calling Jamaica, Colombia Comcel and Guatemal Comcel
SkyTell calling card issued by Max Telecom Ireland Ltd.
MTC Life La Vida prepaid phone card issued March 2009 services by TCI
MTC African prepaid phone card issued May 2009

ATI United Africa - My Africa - Mr Africa - Karina

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:59:00 +0000

Get the best price on all ATI phone cards when you buy 500 or more Mr Africa or other popular fast selling ATI phone cards. When you buy any combination of ATI phone cards in lots of 100, you can get the best prices from a reputable master distributor.

ATI's $5 Africa phone cards are offered at a 28% discount ($3.60 on the $5 Mr Africa phone card. Plus if your total of all purchases for the month is $10,000 for the month, you receive a 1% bonus rebate for the entire month's purchases (posted the following month). 440-526-9946

The following ATI Phone Cards are available at Phone Card Hotline wholesale division:

ATI My Africa phone card
ATI Mr Africa & Middle East phone card
ATI More Africa phone card
ATI United Africa & Middle East phone card - new February 2009 with local access numbers throughout the USA
ATI Karina phone card - Local access numbers for Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota
ATI Middle East No Lies phone card - advertising 100% delivery of prompt minutes
ATI Bongo phone card - an older ATI calling card... still selling well
ATI Philippines No Lies phone card - 100% prompt minutes with local access numbers in California, and Hawaii
ATI King of Cards phone card with local access numbers in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware,Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey,Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virvinia.
ATI Africa No Lies phone card
ATI El Salvador No Mentiras
ATI Guatemala No Mentiras
ATI Honduras No Mentiras
ATI Always Africa phone card
ATI Mi Hogar phone card - Califonia local access numbers

Asian Gold Phone Card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:46:00 +0000

It seems like the a favorite passtime for Cambodian ladies here in the states, is calling home to Cambodia. Even more, they like selling a quality phone card to their friends and family.

The A$2 Asian Gold phone card is very popular for calling home to Cambodia and Laos.

We origianlly designed Asian Gold calling card to be competitive in the Philippines phone card market. Aside from selling the Asian Gold to stores, we also have a number of Filipino women working in hospitality, at hospitals, and in home care who enjoy making some side money selling 50 or 100 of the $5 Asian Gold phone cards each week to their friends.

For more information on Asian Gold you can contact me at 440-526-9946

Eastern Gold Phone Card

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Eastern Gold is still the #1 selling Ukraine calling card selling in Cleveland Ohio. Stores occasionally try another phone card such as Power Minutes... but they always come back to Dollar Phone's Eastern Gold phone card, with local access numbers throughout the country.

Excellent for Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Hungary, all of Western Europe.

Eastern Gold is available in $2 and $5 denominations. We will also make the rate deck available for private label with a minimum printing of 10,000 cards. You will typically sell 2 of the $2 for every $5 Eastern Gold phone card. Printing cost runs about $.05 per card.

Phone Card Companies will not update posters

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:56:00 +0000

While there is a trend in the phone card industry to provide better phone cards with fewer fees, the existence of a phone card with no fees is still a rarity. There were a number of lawsuits in 2008 claiming that phone card companies were misleading customers with point of sale posters that advertised more minutes than were being delivered.

The result is absurd. Today the major phone card companies issue a new card, and print point of sale phone card posters advertising that their phone card delivers "100% of the advertised minutes if used on a single call" The catch is that the advertised rates are only for 14 days after the phone card is issued. After the 14 days, they go back to "rates are subject to change"

Phone cards such as the Integrity Phone Card which sells very well at the Ballad Air Base over in Iraq, has no fees... but can not offer the crazy minutes advertised on typical phone card posters. Even so, the rates to most places save the customer a lot of money over alternative call methods. For example, you can call 120 minutes to Bangladesh or India. The customer can make one long call or can make 120 one minute calls.

When buying a phone card, look for one with local access numbers. Local Acess numbers cost the phone card company less than toll free 800 numbers. Therefore they can deliver more real minutes. Remember, if you have a cell phone with free domestic long distance... you can use your cell phone to dial any local access number printed on the back of your prepaid calling card. This trick works very well for those living in Alaska where toll free access either does not work, or it imposes a hefty surcharge.

ATI Phone Cards - Mr Africa phone cards

noreply@blogger.com (Bob Collett) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:38:00 +0000

I have been away for a while. Now we are selling a lot of ATI phone cards. The parent company is called California Alliance Telecommunications - CAT. They tell me they have been around for about 15 years. But I have only been using their products for a few years. I have used a number of their products under both the ATI brand as well as the CAT brand.

Over the past year, the ATI Mr Africa Middle East phone card has easily become our best selling phone card for our wholesale (store) African customers around the country... even surpassing the very popular CTA brands such as African Dream, CTA Africa, and African Beauty.

I recently had a problem when the major distributor in Florida had all of their ATI phone cards shut down as a result of a dispute with ATI. I will not go into the details of the dispute, because I really have no way of knowing which party breached their agreement. Nonetheless, all of my ATI phone cards went dead. I contacted the folks at CAT and they were very helpful getting all of my cards that were already in the market re-activated within 8 hours!

It is very rare that a company will work with a distributor in this manner. Rather than having to collect all of the dead cards and send them back to the Florida distributor where I bought them, I was able to have them turned back on within about 8 hours. This means that my ATI customers who buy Mr AFrica, My Africa, More AFrica, the No Lies Philippines, Mi Hogar, No Lies AFrica, No Lies Middle East and the No Mentires Guatemala and all of the other ATI branded products... were able to continue using the cards after just a short delay.

I always tell my phone card vendors, if a technical problem occurs all they need to do is be honest with their distributors... and get the problem fixed within 3 days. If they do this, the customer will thank them and become even more loyal.

Problem is... most of the so called technical problems are not technical problems at all, but really matters where somebody did not pay their bill.

In the case of my ATI cards... I paid the Florida distributor where I bought the cards, and also paid ATI directly so that I could have my pins turned back on. I must say that I am very impressed with the professionalism at ATI as well as their competence.

My Florida distributor has promised to re-imburse me as well, and they are also a well respected company.

At Phone Card Hotline, we are pleased to be working directly with CAT - ATI and will be very agressive in our pricing to become their largest distributor in Alaska and the Midwest.