Calling home from France
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Calling home from France
I already posted my first question but I forgot to also ask what is the best way to call the US from France. Am I better off buying a phone card and using it in a payphone there or trying to use a cellphone. I have Verizon which I don't think will work over there. I will only be gone a week and want to call my family. Thanks.
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Much, much, much less expensive using a phonecard that you get at a Tobac or rance telecom store. We prefer the France Telecom card. Make sure you get the international one. Calls are less than 10 cents per minute. It's not the type you insert into a pay phone at a phone booth. You can use it at a hotel, or pay phone. You call a central number, they respond (English is an option, I think), and then you call the number you want.
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More about the Phone "card" which is now not a card but a sheet of paper they print out for you at the France telecom office.
It's called "Ticket telephone International" It costs 15E and has 503 minutes of calls to either a cell phone in the US or a land line in the US. That's 3E or about 4 cents per minute. It also has 1 hr of calls within France to a land line. We tried to call from our cell phone, but it does not allow cell calls.
We purchased it in July.
Stu Dudley
It's called "Ticket telephone International" It costs 15E and has 503 minutes of calls to either a cell phone in the US or a land line in the US. That's 3E or about 4 cents per minute. It also has 1 hr of calls within France to a land line. We tried to call from our cell phone, but it does not allow cell calls.
We purchased it in July.
Stu Dudley
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