Guides
287 pages on calling an ordinary phone number in another country: what it costs, how to dial it, and why it sometimes will not connect. Every price comes from the same rate card the dialer uses, so nothing here can quote a figure the product does not charge.
By the set
- Call rates, country by countryWhat a minute costs to every country, with landline and mobile priced separately.221 countries
- How to call, corridor by corridorExit codes, trunk prefixes and the time difference for the routes people actually dial.12 corridors
- US area codesWhich city an area code covers, and which exchanges inside it we refuse and why.24 area codes
- UK non-geographic numbersWhat an 0800, 0300, 0345 or 0844 number costs from abroad, which is not one price.5 ranges
- What your own carrier chargesAT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile against our card, every figure dated and sourced.3 carriers
- Compared with the alternativesWhere each one is the better answer, said before the price is mentioned.7 comparisons
- Free toolsCheck a number, search the card, size a plan. No account, no email.7 tools and lookups
One question at a time
- How Airlophone worksThe whole product in one page: what happens when you press call, and what it costs.
- Calling from a browserWhich browsers carry a call, and what to do when the microphone will not work.
- Calling from a laptop with no phoneEvery free option first, then the paid ones, for when the handset is gone.
- Reaching your bank from another countryWhy the number on the back of the card often fails abroad, and what to dial instead.
- Reaching an embassy or consulateHow these lines are structured, and why the published number is rarely the one that answers.
- Toll-free numbers from abroadFree at home does not mean reachable from overseas. Usually it means the opposite.
- Calling a landline from WhatsAppWhatsApp cannot dial an ordinary number. What it does instead, and what to use when it will not.
- Compared with roamingWhere roaming genuinely wins, and the bands where it does not come close.