StanaCard is a calling card that gives you one touch speed dialing, with no additional hidden fees such as connection charges – the rates quoted include all taxes and fees, so what you see is what you get. These cheap international phone rates are very competitive and there are no access numbers or pin codes.

StanaCard refer to their system as a calling card, but it’s not a card, in fact what happens is that you are given a ‘SmartDial’ number for every telephone number you want to call. You can assign a SmartDial number to a national, international or mobile number. You then simply dial the SmartDial number directly from your landline, mobile or office phone to access the StanaCard cheap phone rates. This service is available in the following countries: Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA – and you can dial to many more countries (virtually worldwide).

You can assign up to 20 SmartDial numbers on your account.

ZenoFon is a USA based telephone service which lets you dial overseas numbers or US numbers using a local US number and therefore accessing cheaper rates. You can allocate up to 20 phone numbers, getting a local number for each one.

When you register you need to give the telephone numbers that you will be dialing from, for example, your home phone number and cell phone number. Then you can add your contacts – add up to 20 overseas or USA telephone numbers and they will each be allocated a local US phone number. You can then save these local numbers in your home or cell phone for easy dialing.

Reliance Global Call is an international long distance telecom provider, offering cheap calls to India and many other countries worldwide. Currently, you can use the service from within the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and India and call to over 200 countries.

There are many ways to use the Reliance Global services, but you need to sign up for an account and register the phones that you want to make calls from – landline and cellular phones. By registering the phones that you will use (and you can register up to 6 phone numbers on the pay later service and four on the pre-pay service) this means that you don’t need to dial any pin numbers or access numbers before making your call. Good call quality over a fibre optic network.

Talkety is a telecom network provider offering very cheap rates for international calls. Calls are initiated online by entering your own telephone number (landline or mobile) and your destination number – your phone will then ring and you will be connected. You can phone almost any country in the world with Talkety.

You must register in order to use the service and Talkety will call you back to verify your telephone number and ask you to enter a code generated on the website. Add credit to your account and you can start to make cheap international phone calls. Because you start the calls from the website, there is no software to download and no other equipment needed other than your existing telephone.

Nonoh is a VoIP service provider that offers cheap voip rates to most countries as well as free calls to landline phones in certain countries. You have to buy credit in order to dial the free countries, but you do get 60 free minutes to trial the service.

Currently the free countries include the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, Venezuela, Ireland, Finland and Puerto Rico (these do tend to change). This service is very comprehensive with most countries accessible on their network.

RingPlus is a telecom service that offers free international phone calls because the calls are sponsored by adverts. You can call from a landline or cell phone by dialing an access number first, and can use the RingPlus service when dialing from within the US, Bellinzona and Lausanne in Switzerland, and Milan in Italy.

Apart from the cost of calling the RingPlus access number (depends on your standard telecom company’s charges), the remainder of your international call will be completely free. A full list of access numbers are published on the RingPlus website. This service is for non-commercial use only.

Dial Simple is an over-ride telephony provider enabling you to make cheaper international calls from your existing landline phone without changing your normal telephone service provider or your phone number. It’s for US landline users and apart from the initial registration process, no computer is necessary to use this service although some of the enhanced features are only accessible via the website.

Cheap International Call rates

Dial Simple is a service for people in the USA, and their rates for dialing internationally are very cheap. For example, at the time of writing you can call Australia for 2.0c per minute, China for 1.99c per minute and the UK for 1.6c per minute (1st June 2009).