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Originally Posted by tjw
We bought international phone cards from Sprint. CVS had a special buy one get one free, for 10.00 we have about 1 1/2 hrs. of talk time for the week.
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According to the information Sprint publishes on the internet one Sprint/CVS $10 card gets you just under 8.5 minutes talk time from Mexico to the US. ( $1.18 per minute) And that is only if you find a private phone that does not block the access number. My home phone service in Mexico is from Telmex, and in our case the access numbers are blocked. If you find this is the case you can use a public phone were you pay the $1.25 access fee and your talk time is down to 7.5 minutes (if you only make one call and use all 7.5 minutes). I would get almost that same amount of time by using my US cell phone to call the US from Mexico. And while using a US cell phone to call home is the most expensive option I could think of, it is a lot more convenient than entering all of those numbers (on your card) into a phone.
An MCI card allows calls to the US from Mexico for only 59c per minute with no access fee.