There were the cards that didn't deliver as many minutes as promised and the cards that charged extra fees to call a cell phone. There were the cards that offered several hundred minutes of ...

Over the past decade, the prepaid calling card business has mushroomed into a $4 billion industry that has injected new competition into the market for international phone calls and provided a ...

You can purchase a prepaid calling card that lets you call the U.S. from almost any landline phone for significantly less than dialing directly from your hotel or using your cell phone.

Every week, millions of consumers buy prepaid calling cards, primarily to make international calls to family and friends. But many low-cost calling cards don’t deliver what they promise, law … ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Despite the popularity of cell phones, the market for prepaid calling cards continues to thrive.

The cell phone companies have most of us precisely where they want us: shackled to one- or two-year contracts, threatened with hefty fees for early escapes. It's not exactly indentured servitude ...

The case sparked new calls to regulate prepaid cell phones in order to provide more accountability and make the devices less attractive to criminals. Yesterday, Congress responded.

Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.