Calling Russia
Calling Russia can be expensive if you just pick up your home or cell phone and dial a direct Russian phone number. If you don't have any kind of international calling plan on your U.S. cell phone and you start calling Russia via direct-dial, you'll probably pay more than $2.00 per minute.Most U.S. cell carriers offer international plans where you pay $4-$5/month and your per minute charge for direct-dialed calls to Russia will be 20-31 cents/minute, but that's still pretty high. That means an hour will cost you nearly $20 USD.
Fortunately there are several very convenient and inexpensive options available for calls to Russia which we will review.
Skype
Skype has taken developing long-distance relationships with Russian women to a whole new level. And to meet, date, and marry a Russian woman, you must first get to know her. And unless you are so well off that you can spend a lot of time and money traveling to Russia to meet every girl you think may be the one, then you need to get to know them better from a distance before traveling to meet, and there is no better way to do that than with Skype video.Anyone with internet access and a computer with speakers, microphone, and webcam can use Skype to speak face to face via live video to anyone anywhere in the world for FREE as long as they also have internet access and a computer with speakers, microphone, and webcam.
And not only that, but even if a girl in Russia does not have internet or a computer, you can still use Skype to call her cell phone for some of the most competitive international phone rates available.
Click HERE to read my full review of Skype.
Rebtel
While Skype is awesome for calling Russia, you need to be at your computer to use it... Well, it will work on cell phones with data plans, but not everyone has those yet, and it doesn't work nearly as well there anyway. So what then?Rebtel is a "dial-around" international calling provider that makes calling Russia easy and cheap. "Dial-around" means that instead of dialing the number you are calling directly, you dial some toll free domestic number, then enter a PIN (a code), then the international number you are dialing to. This way your cell carrier sees it as a toll free call, but the 1-800 number you dial charges you for the international call.
But Rebtel does "dial-around" differently... without any 1-800 numbers or PINs. I've used it for a year now and have found that all it's hype is well deserved.
Click HERE to read my full review of Rebtel.
Vonage
Vonage was one of the first companies to really popularize VOIP phone service as an alternative to a regular phone line. A thorough description of VOIP would sound a little like geeky gobbledygook, but basically it is phone traffic traveling over the internet. And what it REALLY means TO YOU if you are calling Russia is that you can have a home phone service for half the price of a typical telephone line, and have cheap or free international calling rates to Russia.Click HERE to read my full review of Vonage.
