France Phone Cards

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1) Cloncom top phonecards consolidator offers low cost calling to France from major countries.  Check for yourself.

2) 1stUSA: US calling card company. Click 1stUSA for details

 

This is what you need to know when you buy calling cards:

Connection Fee
Connection fee or first minute surcharge is charged when a call is connected. The charge varies between different service providers. If you make few long duration calls this charge is usually insignificant, but if you make frequent short duration calls you should look for a card with low or no connection fee.

Maintenance Fee
The maintenance fee is charged on weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis, after the first use.  If you intend to buy a card and use it in short time this charge is not significant, but if you intend to make few calls and keep your card for a long time you should choose a low maintenance fee card or no-maintenance fee card.

Minutes Rounding
Minutes rounding is the basic unit to record the length of the phone call. This varies between service providers and products. Cards may come with 1 second, 30 second or even 3 or 6 minute rounding. You should keep attention to phone card minutes rounding so you buy a card that fits you calling patterns.

France Telecommunication*

Telephones - main lines in use:	34.86 million (yearend 1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	11.078 million (yearend 1998)
Telephone system:	general assessment: highly developed domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (with total of 5 antennas - 2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region); HF radiotelephone communications with more than 20 countries
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 41, FM about 3,500 (this figure is an approximation and includes many repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:	584 (plus 9,676 repeaters) (1995)
France Mobile Codes:	336
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	62 (2000)
Internet users:	16.97 million (2002)

*France telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook. 

 

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