<p>okay this may be kind of silly, but I kind of need to know whether when you call with a calling card (e.g. long distance) with a cell-phone (say-- fido plans) that those are taken into account as your minutes. An additional silly question, when they say 100 minutes/weekdays do they mean 100 minute per day (which I am thinking it is but sounds like a lot-- or per month-- which sounds like too little).</p>
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<li><p>Calling cards do not replace your minutes. Any time a call is connected on a cell phone, the minutes are recorded. If you have free nights and weekends, they are recorded but are not deducted from your plan allowance. Using a calling card will still use your minutes.</p></li>
<li><p>Any rate plans are listed in minutes per month, so a 100 minute plan would be 100 minutes per month. Partial minutes are rounded up.</p></li>
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<li><p>As UVMLauren said, anytime you are on your phone during the day your minutes are deducted - phone card or not. Daytime hours are usually until 7 or 9pm depending on the carrier. If your plan has “unlimited nightime” minutes, that means any call after 7 or 9pm is not deducted from your plan.</p></li>
<li><p>100 minutes/weedays is really 100 minutes/month … but most plans have unlimted weekend calling so then it boils down to only weekdays.</p></li>
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<p>If you could use calling cards, Cell phone companies would go broke. 18** numbers are not free on cell phone, so it would not work.</p>
<p>Not all Cell phone plans are rounded to the nearest minute, I know that My phone from Nextel is rounded to the second. The Majority of Business grade phones will be like this. But Lauren is corrent, the plans you will probrolly get will round to the nearest Minute.</p>