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Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Jan, 2000
I recently started dating a guy who rives in London, and my first phone bill was astronomical How can I lower the cost?--J.W., BROOKLINE, MASS.
If you direct-dial international calls without a special plan, you could end up paying as much as $1.29 a minute. Even using a dial-around plan could be a big mistake. For example, MCI WorldCom's 10-10-321 charges 64 cents per minute for calls to the U.K. under ten minutes (32 cents per minute for longer calls). But you have plenty of alternatives.
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If you call the U.K. frequently, you'll get the best rate by signing up for an international calling plan. AT&T's One Rate International Value Plan charges $3 per month, then 10 cents a minute to London (Sprint costs 10 cents a minute, too, but charges a monthly fee of $5.95). Sprint's Nickel Nights plan costs 5 cents a minute from 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. to Canada and the U.K. (plus $6.95 a month).
If you don't make enough calls to make the monthly fees worthwhile, try AT&T's International Regional PrePaid Card for Europe. It costs $20 (a little less than 13 cents a minute) for a 158-minute card. Or you could pay a l0-cent connection fee plus 10 cents per minute for AT&T's 10-10-345 dial-around plan.
And if all of those options sound too expensive, there's always e-mail--although it may not be as romantic.
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