Calling Cards Risky Business: Congress

Have you been fumbling around with a calling card lately? Did you buy one thinking you'd get great long distance savings for your international calls? Turns out you're probably not getting what you really paid for, and Congress has done something about it.

Good News: A House panel has approved a bill to set universal disclosure standards on rates and other terms for prepaid calling cards. Lawmakers want to stop calling card companies that repeatedly fool customers on available minutes. A similar bill is pending in the Senate.

Cellular-News.com reports that congress is worried about all the hidden fees, printed in near illegible type, that cause callers to lose up to half of the advertised minutes they promise. In one example, staffers found companies that market prepaid calling cards in non-English languages and print the disclosures only in English.

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