My sister back in India had her first child last month. It was a moment of enjoyment for us and I decided to throw a party in India. I had my plans for the party and decided to personally invite everyone via phone. There were about 50 people to call. I started calling each of them and before I was done with three of them, the phone hanged up. I tried again and got a message that said “your balance is too low to call, please recharge immediately”. The international calling rates were too high to call that many people. So I decided to use phone cards. I searched on the web and found out a site getmecallingcards.com, which is literally a warehouse of calling cards. It has calling cards, from all the major vendors, which can be used to call to 153 different countries. With their easy search option I browsed my way to a list of India phone cards arranged by price per minute and selected the 10$ card. I got my PIN immediately and called all the remaining people for the party invitation.
I am leaving for India today and I am taking with me US calling cards to keep in touch with my friends here.