[climbednz]

Hey all,
I have tried several different phone cards and some are better than others. Does anyone have a recommendation for the best phone card to call NZ and Australia?

[Reni]

try smile chat chat

[PDLM]

For Australia you will struggle to beat PCCW's 0060 or HGC's 0080 at around HK$0.17/min. NZ is a bit pricier.

Note that it is normally dramatically cheaper to call a fixed line than to call a cellular phone in both of those countries.

[humanbeing]

http://www.idd1507.com/eng/promotion.htm (Promote Rate)
From Mobile: $.08/min From Fixed Line:$0.18/min
Peoples IDD Talk SIM http://www.peoples.com.hk/p_prepaid_...efault_iso.jsp
$.25/min ($85 for a $98 SIM @ Apliu St, SSP)

[dewar]

If you happen to have your own PC i recommend using Skype. I just started using it last week and you can make stupidly cheap phone calls to landlines all around the world using SkypeOut. Even better is if your mate in NZ/OZ has Skype, then it is free! To give you an idea though it's € 0.017 Euro Cent the same as $0.023 or £0.012 per min.

[PDLM]

Which is more or less exactly what it costs you using a phone line, and you don't have all the hassle of firing up your PC and so on.

[Meerkat]

I found this thread useful so am replying to it ..even though it is slightly old.

IDD, International calls to UK, cheap phone calls to UK.

http://www.ectelecom.com/eng/promotion.htm

This company is doing 24x7 promotional rate calls to these destinations (fixed lines) China, USA , Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Sweden, Switzerland

for 9 cents per minute until 2 July 2006

You can register several lines (mobile and land line) and just dial an access number.

All you need is an address, id card ..they allow several payment methods.

Meerkat