How expensive are telephone calls that originate in Norway?
• Residential telephone service is billed at a fixed fee plus a time-usage fee for every (local or long distance) call made from the home phone. The rates drop significantly after 6 p.m. and on week-ends. A nice feature is that there are no long distance calls within Norway. A call to your next door neighbor costs the same as a call to Oslo, Bergen, Trmso, or Rros. • For your calls to the USA, purchase prepaid telephone cards. You can buy these cards at the Grnnland Metro (subway) station in Oslo. In Trondheim, similar cards are available at the ethnic (e.g., Chinese, Iranian) grocery stores downtown. By using these cards you can call Norway-USA for about 10 cents a minute. The specific cards available (e.g., Global One, Millennium) will change as companies merge and marketing specials come and go. An alternative is to use an Internet telephony service such as http://dialpad.com/ . • A side note: Telephone bills that you receive in the USA show all the detail supporting the monthly cha
