Saving money with a toll free number can apply to other situations. From reading part 1, “What you need to know about toll free calls” a toll free number saves money, and time.

Are you a truck driver, a business person traveling in US, going on vacation, a person that lives alone and wants your children to call or an RV’er? Let’s look at each one:

Truck Driver – You’re on road 10, 20, or more days a month, trying to make a living. Your children are growing up and your not there to help them with their problems. Your wife misses you and wishes you would call home, but cost to call is prohibitive. What to do? Well you are in a truck stop, phone is there to call toll free to find out where your next load is. So why not set up a toll free number to your home? No pin numbers to keep track of, no collect calls to pay when you get home and at just 3.49 cents a minute you can call as many times and as long as you want without building up a large phone bill.

Everyone uses toll free numbers almost everyday. Look in “Yellow Pages of your phone book, nearly all of businesses have a toll free number for you to call them.

Okay so what is a toll free number?

A toll free number is a number that rings to your home telephone number and you pay for call and not person that calls. I can hear you saying “Why would I want to pay for someone’s call to me?”

Good question and here’s answer.

Let’s say you have a son or daughter in collage. He or she has several options to call home. Direct calls, collect calls, calling card, prepaid calling cards, and toll free.

Direct Calls – Unless your son or daughter attends collage in same city you live in, collage will not let them make direct dial calls.

Collect calls – Most collect calls cost you $4.95 just to make call then 25 to 50 cents a minute. This can add up to about $15.00 on average call. Make ten calls and you are looking at $150.00 added to your phone bill every month.