Vacations – Heading for beach, mountains, and / or your favorite lake? Where ever you go your toll free number can keep you in touch with your family back home. Change your toll free number to ring to your son’s, daughter’s or other family’s phone number. Now you can call them for just 3.49 cents a minute, by calling your toll free number.

Living alone – Waiting by phone, wanting your children or grandchildren to call? You know they don’t have money to call you. Solution: By getting a toll free number you can call, tell them your number for them to call. Now they have no excuse not to call you.

RV’er – You’re on road, enjoying your new found freedom. You’ve set your mail to go to your son’s or daughter’s home. Do you have a home base? If so you and you have a phone there you can set up a toll free number to ring to your son’s, or daughter’s phone. If not then have your son or daughter set up a toll free number. It’s a cheap and easy way to keep in touch. (If you have a computer with you I have another solution for you. See “On road with your laptop”)

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Prepaid Calling Card – Yes they are cheap! 3.5 cents to 6 cents per minute. Let’s take a look at back of those cards. There is a connection fee of 35 cents to 75 cents per call. A payphone connection fee of 75 cents A 20 minute call will cost you (at 35 cents connection fee, payphone fee of 75 cents and 3.5 cents a minute x 20) $1.80 times twenty calls a month and you are paying $36.00 per month. . Don’t forget that with prepaid calling card in their hand they are free to call their friends too!

Toll Free – A toll free number may be your best choice, a toll free number costs $0 to $2.00 to set up and $0 to $2.00 a month maintenance fee (depends on which company you chose). The company I use charges $1.50 maintenance fee per month and 3.49 cents per minute. There are no monthly fees or minimum usage required. (There will be a $1.99 billing fee with "Bill Me" option in any month where usage is lower than $20). I also get same low rates for my long distance too! We’ll use my toll free company as an example: 20 minute call x 3.49 cents minute = $0.69 (rounded off) times 10 calls per month = $6.90 + $1.50 month maintenance fee = $8.40 month. Added to that, your son or daughter can only call you, keeping your phone bill down.

For more on toll free service and what it can do for you see part 2