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Costly calling cards.(Up front: news / trends / advice)(Brief Article)
Prepaid phone cards can be very useful for students and others who don't need or can't afford regular phone service. But a recent study of international calling found that prepaid cards can be a shockingly bad deal. Researchers from the University of Georgia, which funded the study, collected data from 20 students who used calling cards to phone Spanish-speaking countries. Calls should have averaged 15 cents a minute, based on the number of minutes printed on the cards and the cards' cost. In fact, their cost averaged 28 cents a minute--87 percent higher--because callers couldn't use the full allotment of minutes.
According to the study, hidden maintenance fees and time lost when calls were rounded off to the nearest time segment most likely ...
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 4, 2009 700+ words
...recharging their Sprint calling cards if used in Alaska. Complainants...purchased Sprint prepaid calling cards from Sam's Club stores...responsibility for Sprint prepaid calling cards after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved...
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- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) February 23, 2007 700+ words
...ruling by the Federal Communications Commission to...classification for prepaid calling cards, making them...enhanced' prepaid calling cards were an 'information...issuers of prepaid calling cards are subject to...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 24, 2003 700+ words
...people are using calling cards, he said. Calls...issue a warning about calling cards after getting a number...she said. The Federal Communications Commission, which...offer any pointers on calling cards. But it does provides...
- City & County of San Francisco Begin Distribution of $50,000 Worth of AT&T...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 20, 2003 700+ words
...where its pre-paid calling cards are sold. AT&...of free pre-paid calling cards to be disbursed in...these pre-paid calling cards to help those traditionally...fee approved by the Federal Communications Commission that long...
- MCI Introduces First Text Telephone Calling Card for Individuals Who are Deaf...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 26, 1995 700+ words
...The TTY card is identical to other MCI long distance calling cards except that the card is used specifically for the TTY...TTY Card complies with recent policies put forth by the Federal Communications Commission, effective November 1995. The Commission...
- Calling Cards Open Doors: Prepaid phone surge bodes well for retailers....
- Magazine article from: National Petroleum News Cox, Tracy April 1, 2001 700+ words
...call connection fee. Qwest Worldwide cards do not have maintenance fees or service charges except for the Federal Communications Commision-mandated fee for payphone usage. Opportunities have also opened up by way of phone card company...
- Communications Law Bulletin -- July 2006.(Federal Communications Commission)
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing August 10, 2006 700+ words
...in Brief In July, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or...menu-driven prepaid calling cards (for which users dial...the-middle prepaid calling cards (cards that utilize Internet...to menu-driven prepaid calling cards, the FCC found that these...
- FCC's toll fraud proposal - too little, too late. (Federal Communications...
- Magazine article from: Business Communications Review Toth, Victor J. January 1, 1994 700+ words
...awareness. * Fraud involving the following technologies: PBXs, payphones, the RBOC line identification database (LIDB), calling cards and cellular. Unfortunately, the combination of its scope and the potential for increased levels of exposure by carriers...
