I’m back with part 3 of the "Calling Card Issues" series,

3. How to avoid running out of credit in the middle of the conversation:

If you’ve been using phone cards for a while, there’s a great chance this might have happened to you too: you’re in a call, and suddenly it ends. You’ve ran out of credit. It’s annoying and even unprofessional, if this happens during a business call…

There is, however, a great way of avoiding this: automatic recharge. Some calling cards have this option (www.nobelcom.com, for example). Here is what automatic recharge means: you log into your account and you set a balance limit for your phone card. When that limit is reached (say $0.5), your account is recharged the amount you specify (for example, $5).

This means that, next time you’re in a call with your best friend, your spouse, your parents, or your business collaborators overseas, you will not have the surprise of having your conversation cut right when it was getting interesting – because you’ve no more credit. If you have $0.70 when you initiate the call, and during your international call you reach %0.50, your account will be recharged $5, and you can go on with your conversation as if nothing has happened! How cool is this?

And of course, you can access your account at any time, and change/deactivate/reactivate the auto recharge option for your phone cards.

‘till next time!