Does anyone have any experience or recommendations pertaining to
International Callback
providers OR low-cost[!?] European telcom providers?

In Europe, INCOMING calls to PREPAID cell phones with a given country
(France for a French cell phone) are FREE.  Therefore, instead of paying
usually exhorbitant international
dialing rates (2 Euros per minute), a traveller can sign up with one of
these International
Callback providers before one leaves for Europe.  Then the traveller can
dial the US # and
hang up WITHOUT BEING BILLED FOR THE CALL.  That action triggers the US
International Callback provider's system to initiate a call to the
pre-designated number.
In this case it would be the traveller's prepaid mobile phone.  This service
can run about
$0.30 per minute and is usually billed to a credit card.

Another option is a local European low-cost telcom provider.  Telebillig
http://www.telebillig.de/mobil.php3 for instance allows German mobile
callers to the US for anywhere from 35 Euro cents per minute to 86 Euro
cents.  It is not quite clear to me, even
though I read and speak German very well, how Telebillig will extact its
pound of flesh from you or your cell phone account.  There is apparently NO
SIGN UP.  From landline phone Telebillig will simply bill your account (#)
via the German phone company and its calls will be shown separately on the
bill.  Not quite sure how than works on a German prepaid cell phone.  Don't
have one, so I don't know what a bill would look like.  For the landline,
the Telebillig bill/charges would be in addition to the phone company
charges.

Thanks in advance.

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