Tracfone Internatinal Long Distance - Free!

Tracfone now has calling-card style international long distance...for free! As in it doesn't cost any more to use it from your Tracfone than normal. Which, I have to say, is great for the few of us (not me) that use that sort of thing. Here are the steps to do a Tracfone ILD call:

1. Call 1.800.706.3839 from your Tracfone (making it an address book or speed dial entry are two good things to do).

2. Press 1 for English or 2 for Spanish. You will hear dialing instructions, which you can skip over by proceeding on to...

3. Dial 011 + country code + city code + phone number. FOr Canada, just dial 1 + city code + number.

That's it. You now have international long distance that doesn't cost anything above your normal Tracfone minutes! Though they're still a bit expensive...unless you want a 60-minute card from me or get one of the current Tracfone deals (see the previous posts). By the way, until tomorrow, when I get them, they're $12 instead of $12.50 (since they're preorders).

Here are the countries you can call to with this service (the table is copied directly from a Tracfone email forwarded to me; the second columns of each table are the country codes):

Andorra 376 Argentina 54 Australia 61 Austria 43 Bangladesh - Chittagong 880 Bangladesh - Dhaka 880 Bangladesh - Sylhet 880 Belgium 32 Brazil - Belo Horizonte 55 Brazil - Brasilia 55 Brazil - Fortaleza 55 Brazil - Recife 55 Brazil - Rio de Janeiro 55 Brazil - Salvador 55 Brazil - Sao Paulo 55 Bulgaria 359 Canada 1 Canada - Cellular 1 Chile 56 China 86 China - Cellular 86 Colombia - Armenia 57 Colombia - Barranquilla 57 Colombia - Bogota 57 Colombia - Bucaramanga 57 Colombia - Cali 57 Colombia - Cartagena 57 Colombia - Medellin 57 Colombia - Pereira 57 Cyprus 357 Czech Republic 420 Denmark 45 Estonia 372 Finland 358 France 33 Germany 49 Gibraltar 350 Greece 30 Hong Kong 852

DESTINATION COUNTRY CODE Hong Kong - Cellular 852 Hungary 36 Indonesia - Surabaya 62 Ireland 353 Israel 972 Italy 39 Japan 81 Malaysia 60 Malaysia - Cellular 60 Mexico 52 Mexico - Cellular 52 Monaco 377 Netherlands 31 New Zealand 64 Norway 47 Peru 51 Poland 48 Portugal 351 Russia - Moscow 7 Russia - St. Petersburg 7 San Marino 378 San Marino - Cellular 378 Singapore 65 Singapore - Cellular 65 South Korea 82 Spain 34 Sweden 46 Switzerland 41 Taiwan 886 Taiwan - Cellular 886 Thailand 66 Turkey - Istanbul 90 United Kingdom 44 Venezuela

Note that most countries bill incoming calls on cell phones as free, and outgoing calls to cell phones as more expensive than usual. Hence, you may or may not see "cellular" on the list of countries for whatever country. If you don't, you can't call cell phones in that country with Tracfone's ILD scheme.

And that's about it. Enjoy!