International Prepaid Phone Cards For Chile

Expats and students living abroad in Chile need to keep in touch with their family and friends back home. While email is great, there's nothing like a good, old fashioned phone cards. There are few different options for people living in Santiago or anywhere else in Chile. We've listed them here:

Skype
Nowadays, many people choose to download Skype to their personal computers. Skype is a software program that lets users make extremely cheap phone calls to anywhere in the world, from a computer. If you choose, you can also receive phone calls. The benefit is that at about 2 cents a minute, Skype is incredibly cheap. The downside is that broadband is incredibly expensive in Chile, and the ISP Telefónica is clogged up, so that Skype calls are often broken up and fuzzy. If you live in a part of town with Telefónica, you are going to want another calling method:

Phone Cards
With rates as good as 4 bucks for 70 minutes of airtime, Hellocard is the among the best international calling cards from Chile to the Us, Canada or Europe. HelloCard is sold at a number of kiosks in Providencia, Santiago de Chile.

Of course, your friends and family should take the initiative and call you from time to time, while you're living in Chile. If they're looking for online prepaid international calling cards or phone cards to Chile, then finding online reviews of Comfi cards, and a list of their international rates-per-minute, is a good idea.

Locutórios
These are phone booths that you'll find all around Chile, and in Santiago, usually inside Internet Cafés. If you're in a bind, and you need to make an international call from Chile to Canada, the United States, Australia or Europe, these will have to do, but be warned that locutórios are can be extremely pricey, at upwards of a dollar a minute.