MCI Prepaid Phone Cards

How MCI Prepaid Phone Cards Work

The MCI prepaid phone cards work in a similar way to other phone cards. You will be given a PIN (Personal Identification Number) and the MCI number to call first in order to place all of your calls.

MinutePass Plus

The MCI prepaid phone card is called the MinutePass Plus. This card can be used from any touch-tone phone including payphones, hotel phones and your own home phone. The MinutePass Plus card can be used to make calls to more than 100 countries around the world and to any state or locality within the United States.

Rates and Pricing

The cost for the MinutePass Plus card is $29.99 for 1,000 minutes of airtime. International rates vary, depending upon the country that you are calling. The MCI prepaid phone card can also be used to make country-to-country calls while traveling outside of the United States.

The rates at the time you purchase your card will never change. Each time you recharge your card, the initial rates you paid will continue.

Golden Retriever Service

The Golden Retriever service is a customer service offered to individuals who use the MinutePass Plus card. This service is the plus part of using the MinutePass Plus card. The services the Golden Retriever service provides are:

• Find directions to locations in a city
• Yellow Pages look-up
• Local movie times
• Weather information
• Current time
• Local event information
• Sports information
• Location of radio stations
• Stock quotes
• Horoscopes

When you call the Golden Retriever service you are charged a flat rate to your phone card. You may ask the live representative a total of 3 separate questions per call. Currently, the service is only available in the United States.

Rechargeable Cards

Once you purchase the initial MinutePass Plus you can recharge it indefinitely. The first time you recharge your card you will receive 100 bonus minutes from MCI. Users can elect to purchase 500 or 1,000 minutes at the time of recharge. Five hundred minutes can be purchased for $19.99 and 1,000 minutes for $29.99. The cards can be recharged online or by calling MCI directly.

Benefits of Phone Cards

There are many benefits to using a prepaid phone card. They can be used or given away for the following reasons:

• People who purchase the MCI prepaid phone cards will pay the same rate each time that they recharge their phone card as when they made the initial purchase.
• You never have to buy another phone card. The MinutePlus Pass card can be recharged indefinitely.
• The cards make great gifts for teens, college students or relatives.
• The cards can be used to make calls on landlines (pay phones or home phones) or on cell phones.
• The cards can be used when traveling abroad or domestically.
• The cards are perfect for business travelers; businesses can recharge the cards for their employees.
• The cards can be used as employee incentives.
• The cards are perfect for keeping on hand for emergencies - in the purse, wallet or in the car.

Conclusion

Prepaid phone cards are a way to assist individuals in your family or employees in a business to make calls wherever they are. The cards can be used to place calls within the United States, overseas and country-to-country. Landline phones and cell phones can utilize these cards making them convenient for everyone to use.

The MinutePass Plus card can be given away as a gift, used by family members for emergencies or given to employees who travel frequently or as an incentive for exemplary work. The rates for using this card are competitive with other phone cards and the rechargeable aspect of the card makes it easy convenient for everyone who uses them.