Calls can also be substantially less expensive than those made from a standard landline phone.

Need to make a phone call overseas? We found that prepaid phone cards have lots of fees and little information on what your calling rates will actually be.

Banks may not be noted for tackling new business trends, but Community Bank and Trust of Cornelia, Ga., could score big points for innovation with its prepaid telephone calling cards. J. Alton Wingate ...

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't ...

— -- State and federal officials are cracking down on prepaid calling cards that promise more minutes than they deliver to immigrants, soldiers in Iraq and other frustrated phone-card users ...

The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that issuers of prepaid calling cards must pay connection fees and help subsidize phone service in rural areas.

A half-dozen companies were fined $30 million for deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards, the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday. The companies falsely advertised that their low ...

Once again, after years of exposes and regulatory actions, federal officials and leading consumer advocates are cautioning purchasers to be wary of prepaid telephone calling cards. The reason ...

Americans will spend about $6 billion this year on prepaid calling cards. Consumer groups claim the industry is rife with misleading advertising and undisclosed junk fees.

Prepaid calling cards first caught on in Europe during the early 1980s, according to a report released last summer by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.