What is Prepaid Long Distance?
Prepaid long distance is when you pay in advance to make long distance phone calls or to use a prepaid cellular phone. Basically, you purchase a certain amount of minutes of airtime, and once you use up all of these long distance minutes you must buy more. There are many different companies that offer this service, and the terms under which you use your purchase can vary a great deal. One of the ways to purchase prepaid long distance is buy buying a card that has a certain number of “minutes” allotted to it. There are many different denominations of prepaid cards you can buy, and usually you will receive more minutes as the price of the card goes up. A good way to compare long distance phone cards is by determining the price per minute that it will cost to use the phone card, and obviously the lower the per minute cost is, the better value the card will be. In addition to the price per minute, there also can be several additional charges, for instance the price of the first minute of t