Phone card depot

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Phone Card Depot

Type of co.	Private
Founded	Richmond Hill, Ontario(2001)
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	Tavis McKenzie, President and CEO
Industry	Telecommunications
Website	www.phonecarddepot.com

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Phone Card Depot sells prepaid phone cards (Telephone Card) to customers in USA, Canada, Germany, Argentina, Belgium, UK and Spain. They are able to offer delivery of calling cards via e-mail globally. Merchandise is sold through one e-commerce store front and by telephone, through a north American toll-free number.

Since it opened for business in 2001, Phone Card Depot has become an alternative to purchasing pre-paid long distance at the corner store or gasoline station. In October of 2006, Phone Card Depot was the feature case study at, Impact Leadership Conference, one of Canada's largest student-run entrepreneurship events, and in November of 2006, Phone Card Depot was awarded an excellent ranking by the Canadian Web Awards for its design and useability.

1 History
2 Services
3 Suppliers
4 Competitors
5 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 2001 in Richmond Hill, Ontario by Tavis McKenzie and his business partner John Thomas, Phone Card Depot has grown from a local-only telephone call center to a calling card distribution centre, with local access throughout North America and Europe. Phone Card Depot's has always followed three guiding principles: Customers should always be treated honestly, operating costs must be kept to a minimum to provide customers with exceptional pricing and that the company must thoroughly test all products before making them available for sale.

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The Phone Card Depot provides a secure shopping enironment, direct product search and industry specific news articles.

The Phone Card Depot uses Geotrust 128-bit SSL encryption for all credit card transactions. Hacker Safe certification was implemented August of 2006 to ensure that no database security threats exist. Free e-mail accounts are all validated by phone before any orders are sent out to prevent identity fraud.

Direct product searching through Phone Card Depot's Search the Depot allows filtering of calling card results by the call origination, destination and the calling card type.