If you have to make international calls on your cell phone, make sure you check the rates with your cell phone provider first. Lots of cellular companies charge an arm and a leg for calling other countries. If you’ve checked the rates, and don’t like what you see, try a service like Tel3’s international dial around service Tel3’s service lets you call other countries for as little as 1.7 cents per minute.

Another cool thing about Tel3’s dial around service is that if you need to call someone here in the states, and you don’t want the number to show up on your regular cell phone statement, you can use this service to keep the number from showing up. Of course, on that note, you could also just get a MagicJack for $20 per year and log into your account and set up the number to forward to the number you want to call. That way, all your cell phone bill would show would be you calling your MagiJack number. (Which you could pass off as checking messages…. Dang I’m sneaky!)