[PLUG-TALK] Telephone Service to Canada

[Sean Whitney]

I've been using les.net out of Canada for about a year, with my asterisk
box, and I'm really happy with them.  I think my monthly charge is .99 a
month and then their rates (really cheap) for all my calls.



Sean
Rich Shepard wrote:
>    My long distance TelCo is Sprint. They charge $0.19/minute for calls to
> Canada on my current service plan. If I upgrade the plan (which would cost
> me 7 times as much per month as I'm now paying), then calls to Canada are
> billed at $0.07/minute. Not worth it for me. There are a bunch of potential
> clients in Vancouver and Toronto, so I might make an hour's worth of calls
> each month. With my cell phone plan I pay for 450 minutes per month whether
> I use them or not. So I have a minimal service plan from Sprint for calls
> within the US. But, Verizon Wireless charges $0.65/minute for calls to
> Canada.
> 
>    A Google search turned up a lot of potential services. One, by
> freecallplan.com, charges $9.95 per month for unlimited calls to Canada from
> up to 10 phone numbers. (One calls their northern California server and is
> connected from there.) I started to sign up but was not switched to a secure
> server to enter payment information.
> 
>    Has anyone here any experience with these services? Or, is there another
> LD provider who might charge less?
> 
> Rich
>