International cell phone calling plans for when they are deployed?

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Permalink Reply by Theresa on February 20, 2012 at 1:32pm

My son is in Guam and I use a calling card to speak with him. He had a phone installed in his room that gives him unlimited calling to the US. However, on our end it's way cheaper to use a calling card. Mine charges .017 cents a minute. If they have access to wifi that's usually the best way to go like facebook, twitter, skype, ichat or ivisit. We usually use facebook to leave him messages but when he likes to hear our voices he will text to us to call him. That's another thing we use is texting. We pay $50 extra a month for 500 text messages. I wish they would have an unlimited international text plan but oh well. He will be deployed next month so everything will have to be through wifi.

Permalink Reply by William in Nashua on February 22, 2012 at 10:34am

Thanks.  I found out there is a 900 minute Verizon international calling card you can buy at Costco for $30 that lets you call to other countries from the US, and it also lets you call back to the US from overseas (which costs more like 20c to 30c a minute).