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| CLICK HERE NOW FOR FREE ONLINE SPANISH LESSONS Best International Prepaid Phone Card in Chile
The best phone card to call Chile, or anywhere else in the world, is
Comfi. Click here to buy dirt-cheap minutes now. But if you're having tech difficulties need to pick up a card from a brick-and-mortar store, I found a really good phone card for calls from from Chile to the United States that charges about 5 cents a minute. This international prepaid phone card is called HelloCard, and I highly recommend it. I got a free phone card to try out and review. I made it clear that it would be an honest review. But honestly, I have no complaints. (Will update if that changes). I conducted an interview over the phone from my landline in Santiago to a person in the United States. The interview lasted nearly an hour. I still have 15 minutes left. Total prepaid value of the phone card? 2,000 Chilean pesos (about 4 dollars). Why so cheap? This international phone card is Chile's first to use VoIP (voice over internet protocol) technology. That's why it actually is, to date, the cheapest international phone card being offered in Chile. Don't know anything about VoIP? Don't worry. All you have to do is pick up a phone and place your call. No headset, no internet connection, no credit card, no problem ;-) I know it's old fashioned, but in many ways not having to deal with the Internet or electronic equipment is a convenience, especially in Santiago, Chile. You can call from a landline, a payphone or a cellular phone. Do note that when making a call from a payphone with this phone card, you're gonna get charged extra. It's unavoidable, it's Telefónica. EVEN SO, it's still a great deal. Calls from Chile to the United States will cost about 10 cents a minute, rather than 5 cents a minute. Again, among phone cards from Chile to the United States, HelloCard is the cheapest. I haven't tried it with a cell phone, but I understand it's the same rate as calling from a landline. Callers to the US get the best rates, a whopping 70 minutes of talk time. But many other countries aren't that bad either. People calling any European country -- Spain, England, Germany, Portugal, Italy and the rest of the European Union -- get 55 minutes talk time when calling from Chile using the HelloCard phone card. Calling Brazil from Chile gets you 30 minutes talk time. Argentina 60 minutes. Calling cell phones in Chile with this phone card gets you 15 minutes, but that, again, is unavoidable because the cell phone companies are sinister and corrupt, like Telefónica. Check out HelloCard's phone card rates tarifas for other countries. Phone cards in Santiago, Chile are typically sold at kiosks, corner stores and Internet Cafés. HelloCard is currently being sold at various locations in the Providencia neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. The card is extremely new, and so is their website. According to them, it's just a matter 1-2 weeks before they have all the specific locations puntos de venta listed on their website, telling you where you can go to buy these phone cards in Santiago. Update: here are some kiosks/shops where there card is available: Ricardo Lyon (frente al 62) Providencia 1912 ( frente al banco de chile) Providencia 1740 Providencia 1590 ( frente a la Biblioteca Providencia ) Ahumada 366 - A Vecinal con Apoquindo Vereda Sur Providencia 1053 Holanda 2502 Apoquindo con el bosque (frente banco Bice #2880) Luis Tayer Ojeda (frente al 0180) Apoquindo 2705 (frente al BCI) Salida Metro Tobalaba (frente mcdonalds) Suecia #03 Providencia 2277-79 (esquina Suecia) Providencia frente al 2181 Carlos Antunez (frente a notaria Riveros) Frente 2348 (esquina Bucarest) Providencia 266 © Copyright 2005 - 2011 Chileno |
