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Advantages Protel offers College Students

Low cost long distance! For calls as low as 3.9¢/minute (for calls you make within California; if you live in other states, we have low rates within those states as well. Click here for intrastate rates for other states.), we can help you stay within your budget. For calls to any of the other contiguous 47 states, the rate is only 5.4¢/minute. These rates are in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Billing is at 6 second intervals, saving you even more.

Do you have roommates? You have one phone and you and your room mates share it. At the end of each month you sit down with the bill and try to remember who was responsible for each call and how much you each owe. Dividing it equally does not work, because somebody would say (s)he hadn't made that many calls. The answer is FREE Project Codes. Project codes enable you to know exactly what charges each person who had access to the phone incurred. When your bill arrives, each person's obligation is listed individually.

To use Project Codes, you simply dial the number and from 2 to 5 additional digits - the code. At the end of the month, every phone call for each project code is listed separately.

Project codes can be verified or non-verified. Non-verified codes can be 2 digits, 3 digits, 4 digits or 5 digits and can be any combination of digits of the specified length. If you chose a two digit non-verified code (recommended), you can use 22 for your code, your first room mate can be assigned 33, your second one, 44, and so on. Any two digits will work to enable the call to be completed, but two additional digits must be dialed every time a long distance call is made.

With verified project codes, we assign specific 4-digit project code to each individual and the only long distance numbers which can be completed are those dialed with those specific 4 digit codes. If you know your roommates and trust them to be honest, then we recommend non-verified codes. If you feel you cannot trust your room mates, then use verified codes.

Remember, Project Codes do not block the ability to dial a 10-10 dial-around number and thus use another carrier. Of course, those charges will come on your local phone bill, not with the bill from our billing company.

Want to save even more? When you want to call home, if your Mom has a toll free number, you can call her without putting cash out of your pocket. And what Mom doesn't want to hear from her son or daughter who is off to college? The toll free number will only cost her only $1.00 per month and the cost of the calls themselves at 3.9¢/minute for calls within California and 5.4¢/minute for interstate calls. If she gets ourlocal and long distance service as well, she will be able to provide even more support for your education. Our rates in other states are equally competitive.

Calling Cards: At 9.9¢/minute, our calling cards are among the lowest in the industry. There are lower cost cards, but they have other costs that on the bottom line will cost you more. And don't think that prepaid cards provide a lower cost. If you purchase a prepaid card, accurately keep track of the actual minutes you talk. They may have connection fees and/or weekly "maintenance fees" which use up the minutes you paid for, increasing the cost per minute. With our card, you only pay after you use it. We bill in six second increments after an 18 second start. You do have a 60¢ charge when you use your calling card from a pay phone.

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