They come in almost as many varieties as stamps or trading cards, embossed with exquisite pictures of animals or skylines, with mind-boggling, three-dimensional images, with holograms, sports stars… ...

Many prepaid calling card offers are so bogus that they might actually be considered a form of gambling. ... Univance, serves customers in most of the United States for 6.35 cents per minute.

WASHINGTON – 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. There were the cards that didn ...

Prepaid phone cards are prevalent in immigrant communities, particularly among Hispanics. ... Card buyers told us that they often rely on store clerks to recommend cards.

Prepaid phone cards, unheard of in the United States two years ago, have set off a boom in telecommunications and marketing circles. "It's a very big business that's really exploding," said Harris ...

The colorful prepaid calling cards available in stores and the Web are bucking the trend in the struggling telecom industry as sales grow at double-digit rates. Prepaid phone card use surges - CNET X ...

Prepaid calling cards are the hot new product in the telephone business and consumers must make sure they don’t get burned.Regulators and industry experts say the booming and mostly unregulated ...

Companies including Locus Telecommunications, Lyca Tel, NobelTel, Simple Network, STi Telecom and Touch-Tel USA, LLC were each fined $5 million for deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards to ...

If you’re unfamiliar with the prepaid telephone card, you won’t be for long. The nation’s three major long-distance phone companies, along with at least 300 smaller companies, are sinking ...

Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market Government officials warn that certain segments of the market are plagued by fraud and other deceptive practices. By JOELLE TESSLER OCTOBER 12, 2008 11:26 ...