Discount Business Long Distance Phone Service

Description
All business and residential long distance customers are accepted unless otherwise noted. These are discount carriers using digital lines from Qwest, Global Crossings, AT&T, SBC and other large long distance carriers, so there is a delay of 2-10 days from the time the order is placed until your calls are actually routed over your discount provider's lines. The company that seems to have the fastest provisioning time is Pioneer in most cases.

(Please don't contact your local phone company unless asked to do so by your new carrier. These are discount carriers, and they use other phone companies PIC Codes. So, if you PIC yourself, you will end up as a customer of the underlying carrier instead of the discount carrier you wanted. (And Oh will it cost you more... Read the story about Self PICing about half way down the page.))

Pioneer Telephone (2.7¢ Per Minute To Non-Pioneer Customers In Other States.)
Pioneer will debit your credit card $10.00 upon sign up in order to validate the card. But, they do credit the full amount back to your account on your first invoice. (This is only if you provided a credit/debit card at sign up.)

If you opt to receive a paper bill instead of being billed online, and your bill is under $15 per month, there is a monthly minimum usage fee of 99¢ in the months that you don't use at least $15.00 in service. (With online billing the low usage fee is waived.)

IBNtel

IBNtel is one of the few companies that allow customers to sign up without giving out their social security number. To order service without a social security number, just fill all 0's in the SS# field. You will be required to prepay, or place a security deposit on the account, before it will be activated.

There is a billing fee of $1.95 if your usage is under $20 for a particular month. They also charge a $2.00 activation fee for every 800, 866, 877 or 888 number you order, but there are no monthly fees associated with the account.

All calls, both domestic and international, are billed in 6 second increments. Some international destinations, like Mexico, may have a 30 second minimum charge per call.

Enhanced Communications Group

ECG Communication's rate for business PIC-C fees is $3.50 per line with the first discounted to $0.00. PICC rates don't apply to residential phone service. ECG also charges 59¢ per month to recover other regulatory costs.

ECG has a refferal program which offers customers a chance to lower their long distance phone bill all the way to zero. Send your friends this link and have 5% of their telephone bill credited to yours.

Covista Communications

Covista has no monthly billing fees as long as you sign up for their "Autopay" billing option. There is a $1.99 fee charged on non-Autopay accounts if your long distance bill is under $20.00 in that month. Covista Communications also charges a monthly Carrier Recovery fee of 99¢.

Toll free numbers are free to businesses, but residential customers will have to pay a one time $2.00 set up fee per toll free number. If your toll free usage is under $1.00, they will charge you $1.00 that month to cover the administrative costs associated with your 866, 877, 888 or 1-800 number. All businesses will be charges a PIC-C Fee of $4.31 per business phone line.

Opex Discount Long Distance

There is a minimum usage fee of $2.00 in any month that your phone bill is less than $20.00. A toll free number is $2.00 a month for the first number and $0.53 a month for each additional number. Opex also offers both verified and non-verified Product Account Codes (PACs), which give you the option of keeping track of who is using your phone service by making them enter a code before making a long distance call.

Touchtone
Touchtone long distance phone service is only 2.9 cents per minute. Residential and business customers get the same low calling rates, and business customers will appreciate the low $2.49 PIC-C fee.

Total Call International
Total Call offers the best business calling plans due to their reduced fees and low cost instate and international calling rates. If you want to see what's required to sign up for Total Call International, watch the Total Call Video.

Pioneer Telephone Service
Everything is the same as with Pioneer's 2.7¢ phone service plan except that the service is billed in 6 second increments instead of the full minute billing associated with the lower priced plan.

Excel Long Distance
Excel phone service is only 3.7¢ per minute for state to state long distance phone service.

ECG Long Distance
ECG offer good phone service for the price. ECG compares well to other phone service companies, and they have multiple plans to choos from.

Power Net Global
Powernet Global is a telecommunications company that has been in the discount long distance service since the early 1990's. They are one of the few companies that still offer the same discount rates to Tier "A", Tier "B" and Tier "C" customers.

Power Net Global
PNG Business account which requires $25.00 in monthly usage to qualify.Business long distance account from Powernet Global. Monthly access fees apply.

Powernet Global
Get you internet service, local phone service and discount long distance all from Powernet Global.

• Calls to USA, Canada & Puerto Rico
• Call blocking
• Caller ID with Name
• Call forwarding
• Speed dial
• Enhanced 911
• Do not disturb
• Voicemail
• And More!