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Helping you save money on communications, that's the mission of 1+ Call Saver. Below is our featured list of top long distance rate plans, ranked from best to worst, which we believe are the best plans to help save you money. Yes, we do receive commissions from some of the companies, but we believe our opinions are unbiased. We invite you to shop around, since we believe an educated consumer will agree with us. We have tried each plan in the order to give you a first hand account of each service with an honest recommendation. Click around and shop all you want and if you have questions please click here to email us.
  Company Interstate Rate/Minute (cents) Bill Increments/ Minimum Call (seconds) Minimum Charge Monthly
Fee		 Other
Fees		 Comments Savings Score
1 ECG 2.75 6/18 0 0 None No Monthly fee. No monthly minimum. 98.5
2 CogniState 3.45 6/6 0 0 3.7% No Monthly fee. No monthly minimum. 98.1
3 TCI 3.9 6/18 0 0 None

No Monthly fee. No monthly minimum.

 96.2
4 Voice Revolution 4.03 6/6 0 0 None

No Monthly fee. No monthly minimum.

 95.9
5 3U 4.8 1/1 0 0 None No Monthly fee. No monthly minimum. 95.4
6 Covista 3.9 6/6 $1.99 0 $0.99 No monthly fee if you use AUTOPAY 95.2
7 Big Red Wire 3.45 60/60 0 0 None

 

 94.1
8 AmeriCom Simplicity 4.5 6/18 0 0 None

 

 94.0
9 Unitel 3.9 6/18 $2.00 0 None $15 Monthly usage required to avoid minimum charge 93.2
10 PNG 3.9 6/18 $2.50 0 1.4% $15 Monthly usage required to avoid minimum charge 93.2
11 Pioneer 2.7 60/60 0 $1.49 None 93.1
12 GTC 2.9 60/60 0 0 4.0%   92.2
13 Zone LD 3.7 6/6 0 0 $2.00 No monthly minimum. 90.2
14 IDT 5 5.0 6/6 0 $3.95 None   90.0
15 OPEX 3.9 60/60 $2.00 0 None $20 Monthly usage required to avoid minimum charge 89.2
16 MCI 5 cents All Day 5.0 60/60 0 $2.95 None   87.0
17 Qwest
5 cents 		5.0 60/60 0 $3.95 None   86.0
18 MCI One Rate 5.0 60/60 0 $5.95 None   84.0
19 VarTec Voice 7.0 60/60 0 $1.95 None   84.0
20 Lifeline Family Connections 7.0 60/60 0 $2.95 None   83.0
21 AT&T One Rate 7 cents 7.0 60/60 0 $3.95 None Online Billing Saves $1/mo 82.0
22 Earth Tones Green Saver 8.0 6/30 0 $4.95 None  Donates All Profit To Environmental Charities 82.0
23 Excel Simply More 7.0 60/60 0 $4.50 None

 

 81.5
24 Sprint Nickel AnyTime 5.0 60/60 0 $8.95 None Some States Pay In-State Access Recovery Fee 81.0
25 Working Assets Long Distance 7.0 60/60 0 $4.95 None Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Free 60 Minutes Per Month, 1% Of Bill Donated To Charity 81.0
26 Earth Tones Blue Defender 10.0 6/30 0 $2.00 None   81.0
27 Lifeline Value 6.9 6/30 0 0 None   80.2
28 Lifeline Clear Connections 10.0 60/60 0 0 None   80.0
29 Sprint 7 cents AnyTime 7.0 60/60 0 $5.95 $0.99 Some States Pay In-State Access Recovery Fee 79.0
30 AT&T One Rate 10 cents plan 10.0 60/60 $5.00 0 $0.99 $5 Monthly usage required to avoid minimum charge. Other Fees. 77.0
31 Earth Tones Sustainer 13.0 6/30 0 0 None

 

 77.0
32 Lifeline Simple Connections 18.0 60/60 0 0 None 64.0

The Savings Score was created to give an unbiased ranking to each company's long distance plan. Every company starts with 105 points and then points are deducted for the following:

  • Interstate Rate (Multiply the State to State rate by 2 and subtract that many points)
  • Billing Increment/Minimum Call
    (6/6 - 0 pts, 6/18 -1, 6/30-2, 6/60-3, 30/60-5, 60/60-5)
  • Minimum Charge (Subtract 2 points if there is a minimum charge)
  • Other Fees (Subtract 1 point for any other fees)
  • Monthly Fee (Subtract the monthly fee in points if there is one)
  • Average Customer Service Wait Time (If this is 2 or more minutes, we subtract 1 point *** Carriers below #11 are not been graded on customer service.)


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