Do you make a lot of long distance calls? I don’t very often these days but I do go through periods where there are a lot of long distance and international calls going out of this house. I guess one of those times is coming up with the Christmas season.

This year I might go ahead and sign up with Pingo and use their prepaid calling card service to make my long distance and international calls. I can even use the Pingo calling cards with my cell phone and get much lower rates than I can with my cell phone provider, and I’ve heard that the calling cards can be used with VOIP systems as well. One nice thing that I like about Pingo is that when you sign up they give you $5 USD in free calls. That could add up to 4 hours of free International calls just for joining.

Once you sign up for a card they send you your code and pin number right away via email so you can use it just about immediately rather than waiting weeks for a card to be delivered via snail mail.

If I get a card I think I might call one of my friends who happens to live in Australia these days. The Australia calling card rates are quite reasonable. Actually I’ve found that all of their rates, no matter what country you are looking at calling or calling from are reasonable even Pakistan calling cards are quite low. You know, now that I’m thinking about it- these calling cards might make great stalking stuffers. Hmmm another Christmas gift idea to think about.