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Collect Call from Pay Phone Can Ring Up a Big Bill in Omaha, Neb., Area.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2001
By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 9--You forgot the cell phone, so you pull into a gas station to use a pay phone to call home. Oops. No change. So you make a collect call.
The call shows up on your next phone bill as, say, $24 for four minutes.
It happened to two Lincoln women as they called home last month from Grand Island, Neb. -- $24.05 for four minutes. It happened in August to an Omaha man who called home from the Kansas City, Mo., area -- $23.88 for four minutes.
It's legal, and at some pay phones, not unusual. Regulators warn that people making long-distance calls from pay phones should ask the operator about the rates.
One Call Communications of Carmel,...
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