When leaving the home area of your cellular phone you have to pay a roaming fee every time for each telephone call you make. Yes you also have to pay for incoming calls. When calling to India using a phone card from an Indian carrier, than all your phone calls are routed over this carriers network and you don't have to consume another carrier's network time.

The roaming fees are always billed in 60 sec. increments. So if you only talk for half a minute, you are charged for 60 seconds.

Whenever you call with your cellular phone, you are billed for the airtime you used . All incoming and toll free telephone calls are included. Calling a toll free number only eliminates the long distance fee that would be charged to you.

In some cases, when you are roaming into another network, you are billed an access fee. These fees can be anywhere from $3.95 to% $9.95 for access of the network in which you are roaming.

Do not forget taxes on your cellular phone bill you have to pay back at home.

When using a phone card for your cellular phone, you pay the same low rates as when calling through your regular phone line and you are no longer limited by huge international phone rates provided by phone companies.

Reliance provides state-of-the-art network and you get superior line quality.

Reliance carries your telephone call via their own high quality telecom network starting in Los Angeles/New York. So you will notice a significant improvement in transmission quality.

Calls with Reliance India are used exactly the same way as you would on a regular landline phone.

You can access the phone service in all state of the USA and in Hawaii and Alaska by dialing the Reliance toll free phone numbers from any phone including your cellular phone.

A telephone call from the USA to India is 7.4 cents for landline and with your cellular phone.

Reliance is one of the leading Indian phone companies and a good choice to buy your next phone card with a phone card when calling from or to India.

Jim Price

Internet Telephony