Do resellers offer a lower price?

In many cases, resellers will be purchasing in bulk, thereby qualifying for volume and term discounts beyond what a typical customer would be able to buy. In other cases, resellers may be buying from wholesale tariffs at prices lower than those paid by retail customers. Resellers frequently split these discounts with the customer, giving the customer a lower price than they could get directly from an underlying provider while keeping part of the savings to cover the reseller's cost.**Long distance companies and resellers may or may not offer differing night and evening discounts, higher rates for calls to places further away, higher rates for first minute than subsequently minutes, or other special rates. The best way to compare companies is to give each of them a copy of a recent month's long distance bill, and ask them what that month would have cost under their best package. But make sure the bill is for a month of normal calling: if you use a month with lots of calls, the package ...