NOTE: as of August 1st, 2004, there is a new regulation in effect for ALL PREPAID CALLING CARDS when used from payphones in Spain. The regulation adds a 12 cent/minute surcharge to the calling rate when using cards from public payphones and this effects the 2.3 cent/minute rate of the "eurodirect" card ONLY when used from a public payphone. The rate from a public payphone in Spain is now 14.3 cents./min. Since this regulation affect ALL ALL PREPAID CALLING CARDS SOLD IN SPAIN, the "eurodirect" card is still the best and cheapest card on the market. The telephone companies who own the payphones in Spain got this regulation passed since they were losing a huge amt. of money due to the extensive use of prepaid calling cards.