Low International Calling Rates

We Match Verizon on Service Areas and Cost

You must ask for International service to be enabled on your account.

We charge a flat International rate based on your estimated usage. It’s is first fixed at $25/mo. If we adjust it, we will advise you based on your calling volume and cite your specific usage. It will be compared to and not exceed any Verizon service plan.

What is allowed

We provide great international calling rates to over 80% of the world. For example

Country Country Code US Embassy Test Number $ Rate per minute Cost for a 100 minute call
France 33 011 33 1 43 12 22 22 .017 $1.70
UK 44 011 44 20 7499 9000 .0101 $1.01
Germany 49 011 49 30 8305 0 .0152 $1.52
Mexico 52 011 52 55 5080 2000 .0053 $0.53
Cuba 53 na 1.2 NOT ALLOWED. USE CALLING CARD.
China 86 011 86 108 531 4000 .0186 $1.86
China Mobile 86 011 86 136 555 555 5555
(This is as long as a number can get!)
.0186 $1.86

We restrict calling to any country where the International rates are over .30/minute. These are considered fraudulent destinations. For these areas, you must use a calling card.

How to dial

    • Dial as you would on any phone. 011 + 1 to 3 digit country code + the telephone number.
    • The country code + telephone number can be no more than 15 digits per E.164 International dialing standards.
    • You may need to drop a leading digit from a number that is published within a country. For example, a Mobile phone in South Korea (country code 82) may have a published number of  010 5555 5555. That is what you would dial from INSIDE South Korea. But to call from the US, you will drop the leading zero and dial 011 82 10 5555 5555

Diagnosing International dialing issues

        • Call the US Embassy (consulate, mission) for the region if it has one. They always have good phone service from the US!
        • Be aware that countries with rates exceeding our per minute rate. These are blocked with no warning. You will get a busy code.
        • Always tell us the Telephone number dialed, what your heard and the time. We call this THT.
        • Foreign telephone networks are out of our control. You must provide two call reports 2 hours apart if you are having issues.
        • As a final resort, we will make a call from another network to test the validity of the destination number.
          • If it fails, we will consider the destination invalid.
          • If it is successful, we will report the “can’t complete call” issue to our international carriers for resolution.

We may block these non-USA area codes that are a source of Toll Fraud. 

These destinations are reached by dialing 1 + area code + 7 digits but are actually international destinations. The blocked non USA area codes are

246 – Barbados
264 – Anguilla
268 – Antigua and Barbuda
284 – British Virgin Islands
345 – Cayman Islands
473 – Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique
649 – Turks and Caicos Islands
664 – Montserrat
670 – Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
721 – Saint Martin
758 – Saint Lucia
767  – Commonwealth of Dominica
784 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
809 – Dominican Republic
829 – Dominican Republic
849 – Dominican Republic
868 – Trinidad and Tobago
869 – St. Kitts and Nevis
876 – Jamaica
900 – Paid services
976 – Paid services

If you have a need to call to these areas, contact us to adjust our security.