Caztel Reviews and Plans

Caztel is a Long Distance service provider that operates the 10-10-710 long-distance service. HQ in Saint-Maire de Beauce, QC.

Effective March 31, 2021 the service is no longer available for users in Alberta and BC; for users using a Home Phone from Telus or Shaw.

Caztel was Founded in 2001 in the city of Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Caztel Communications is a CRTC licensed telecom carrier. The company offers phone services to residential subscribers and to small companies across Canada.

Caztel's International Long Distance calling services are available on traditional, cable and fiber-based lines from the following major Canadian Telecom landline carriers:

• Bell
• Bell-Aliant
• Bell-MTS
• Cogeco
• EastLink
• Rogers 
• Telebec
• Vidéotron

In our Caztel/10-10-710 Review, we found the characteristic is that is defined by calling rates divided into $0.99 chunks.  This may appear as cheap as you could be calling throughout Canada or the US for less than one dollar. Though rates are quite high when compared with Rebtel and/or Yak for example. More so when you look at rates for overseas calling; for example to India costs $0.04 the minute whereas elsewhere you can find that at $0.01. So you need to look at the rates carefully before deciding.

Caztel is a dial-around service. The way the service works is that dial around long distance providers is a long-distance service provider that may be used with any traditional home phone service, and occasionally cell phone service, without replacing your existing long-distance service provider. This is accomplished by first dialing an access number, usually prefixed with 10-10, to connect to their system and then entering the phone number of the person you are calling to be connected to them. This works much like how calling cards work except that you usually always have your phone number registered with them so that you don’t have to enter any PINs or additional numbers outside of the access number. You also typically get billed for your users directly on your phone bill after the fact and instead of prepaying.

It is also important to note that these services are usually only available with standard telephone service providers like Bell, Telus, and Rogers and they aren’t always available in all areas. If you have a standard, non-VoIP, telephone service you can easily dial the number to test and see if it will work for you.

Caztel also offers a monthly subscription, but it guards the information closely since there is no information on their website other than it is available and that certain conditions apply. Monthly packages are a bit of a rarity for dial-around long-distance service providers. Though maybe easily used with cell phones because it uses local access numbers (LANs) instead of the normal 10-10 number. 

In all Caztel/10-10-710 is an outdated proposal. It looks like an idea the market has simply outgrown; many Home Phone providers offer free Canada calling anyways, and international long-distance rates aren't the best one can find.

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