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Phone Card Statistics

Calling cards with maintenance fee: the rates are at least 10% lower than those without maintenance fee.
Jupiter card
- It has so many local access numbers that most people will not need the toll free number. Using the toll free access number costs
  1 cent/min more than local access.
- The amount of cards sold comes up to 53% of the total sales
  in separate months.
- Some of users buy and recharge this card up to 9 times !!!
  and spend up to $130 a month.
Fast World card
- The rates are 70% to 90% cheaper than AT&T card from the most locations.
- The amount of cards sold comes up to 56% of the total sales
  in separate months.
Continental card
- Over 11 handy features in one card!
- The amount of cards sold comes up to 75% of the total sales
  in separate months.
- Some of users buy and recharge this card up to 14 times !!!
  and spend up to $120 a month.
Simply card
- Surcharge is only 0.2 cents per minute extra for using a toll free access number in the USA. Whereas other phone cards charge
  an extra 1 to 3 cents per minute for using a toll free access.
- The amount of cards sold comes up to 20% of the total sales
  in separate months.
- One of users once was buying and recharging the Simply cards
  13 times for a month! He spent $260 on them at the time!

International Phone Card Review is running statistics on the basis of the data from ComFi.com. According to that statistics, in March 2006 - December 2011, there was reduction (%) in the rates on calls with prepaid phone cards (from USA):

Armenia	-9.9 %	Austria	29.4 %
France	33.3 %	Germany	38.5 %
Italy	-44.4 %	Lithuania	43.3 %
Poland - Warsaw	10.0 %	Russia - Moscow	20.0 %
UK	40.0 %	Ukraine - Kiev	-7.9 %
China	29.3 %	India - Bombay	80.5 %
Israel	-10.0 %	Japan - Tokyo	-36.4 %
Kazakhstan	50.6 %	Malaysia	38.9 %
Pakistan	55.0 %	Uzbekistan	21.4 %
Canada	44.4 %	Mexico - Mexico City	40.0 %
USA - Continental	30.0 %	Argentina	36.2 %
Bolivia	-12.8 %	Brazil	37.9 %
Chile	-33.3 %	Colombia	50.0 %
Venezuela	27.8 %	Australia	0.0 %

So the largest declines were observed for India - 80.5%. The rates only did not change to Australia. However, there are some destinations where the rates had gone up. The most increase was for Italy - 44.4%, Japan - Tokyo - 36.4%.

In January 2012, rates' reduction (%) was:

Armenia	Austria	0.0 %
France	Germany	0.0 %
Italy	Lithuania	-8.8 %
Poland - Warsaw	Russia - Moscow	0.0 %
UK	Ukraine - Kiev	0.0 %
China	India - Bombay	0.0 %
Israel	Japan - Tokyo	0.0 %
Kazakhstan	Malaysia	0.0 %
Pakistan	Uzbekistan	0.0 %
Canada	Mexico - Mexico City	0.0 %
USA - Continental	Argentina	0.0 %
Bolivia	Brazil	0.0 %
Chile	Colombia	0.0 %
Venezuela	Australia	0.0 %

So, rates reduction was only to Lithuania - 8.8%.

By the way, about India - so costly changeable destination. There is Special Promotion: 200 FREE Mins to call India at 4 cents a Minute.