I am trying to setup my own business website for selling
international/domestic prepaid phone cards.  It will work like this:  
User enters the name of the country he/she wants to call and this site 
give all bunch of phone card plans and then user enters Credit card 
information to buy the card.  In return this site give 1-800 number 
and a unique account number/pin number to make a call. This unique 
nubmer expires after certain minutes of call and user has to buy online 
again to make more calls.
 
from what I understand there are consolidators or wholesale companies 
through which all the big and small telecommunication companies sell 
their prepaid calling cards.They are not going to sell cards to somebody
like me who is retailing $50,000 worth of cards in a month.

I am trying to find the list of these consolidators or wholesale 
companies.

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 15 Jan 2003 16:19 PST

hi banti,
Here are a couple of links to separate lists of phone card
wholesalers...
://www.google.com/search?q=wholesale&sa=Google+Search&cat=gwd%2FTop%2FBusiness%2FTelecommunications%2FCommunications_Providers%2FPhone_Card_Distributors&hl=en
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=wholesale&all=no&cs=&cat=Business%2FTelecommunications%2FCommunications_Providers%2FPhone_Card_Distributors
Please let me know if this is what you are after.
--thanks.

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Clarification of Question by banti-ga on 15 Jan 2003 18:55 PST

Most of these companies are retailer like what I will be doing who are
doing wholesale of phonecard also with retail. I am trying to get the
listing and contact details of the consolidators or wholesale
companies in USA and canada who directly buy these cards from big
companies like MCI,AT&T and than distribute those cards to retailers.
They don't retail the cards.. I mean you can not buy one card from
them they only sale in bulk quantity on discount.

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Clarification of Question by banti-ga on 18 Jan 2003 13:03 PST

The example of this kind of company is Global Prepaid Alliance (URL
-http://www.gpa.net/ ) .I need list of all the companies like this in
USA and Canada.