What is the best way for Military to call from Iraq to USA? Calling plan suggestions Phone cards? Need Advice?
Hi my husband is in the Marines and deploying to Iraq next week around the 16th does anyone know of a phone service that you deposit money to pay into for a card with minutes where they give the soldier a pin # to call home? You get minutes by the money you had payed in. He said something like Spyware or something, but i cant find any online info for it. Any suggestions on a phone company that does that or any good calling cards that you have had experience with? Know any companies that donate phone cards to the military? Thanks alot, Amber
AT&T has the contract to provide phone service from Iraq for both military and civilians. They have calling center/internet cafe places on every base. The ones for the civilians have been connected via satellite to the home office in the USA so the calls are charged to the ATT phone cards as domestic calls.
The military calling centers haven’t been connected by satellite and the phone cards are hard to obtain through the px’s on the base. When they are available they are very expensive. The familys have to buy the phone cards in the US. These domestic cards are then charged with international rates so a 300 minute card is only good for about 90 minutes worth of calls.
Some of the bases have a program where the chaplains are getting AT&T cards donated so they are available to the members of the military whose familys can’t afford the cards. This to me is a very bad system -in every other war zone in history-the military had free phone calls home. AT&T is making a fortune off our military and their familys.