Calling Cards.

Calling cards or phone cards allows you to make cheap intenrnational phone calls and offers you low priced calls to call people in Sri Lanka or to call people in foreign countries from Sri Lanka.
There are many ways to pay for the calls you make to Sri Lanka. One of it is the phone cards. Phone cards are also called as Call cards, International calling cards, phone cards and calling cards.

In Sri lanka all the telephone service providers and mobile phone service providers are selling many kinds and multi purpose cards for their clients and users. These cards are ment for calling local phone lines, IDD useage, Chat card, reload card, internet usage card and some of these cards are scratch and use cards. These cards have prepaid money value in any desirable currency. And can be bought from telephone companies, kiosks and online web sites using your credit card.

The pre paid IDD phone card in Srilanka comes as the size of a credit card with magnetic bar or memory chip or secret number under the scratchable aluminum coating. They can be bought in US$ 5, 10, and 20 and so on.

You must select phone card to find out which card is good for the country that you are going to call. Some cards may be very cheap to call USA, and if you use it to call Sri Lanka it may be very expensive per minute. So you have to look in to this matter very well. Also you can ask your friends or relatives to recommend you a web site or a card name.

Normally they will charge you a high value for the connecting minute and it will be cheaper for the following minutes.

So these types of cards should be used to talk continuously and once it is finished can dispose it.

In Sri Lanka you can buy these phone cards in phone arcades, phone shops and private communication centers too. You can see the Buy Phone Cars here sign in most of these places. Also there are some shops in major cities sale the Gold card which is not a card but a user name and password for you to call from your internet connected PC to overseas friends. Also you can use your credit card to purchase phone cards in the internet. As you know the risk of using the credit card for online purchase, take all precautions when you use it to buy calling cards online.