Change in FCC policy will lead to $160 million increase in fees p...
Change in FCC policy will lead to $160 million increase in fees paid to payphone providers by consumers using prepaid phone cards, International Prepaid Communications Assn. (IPCA) said Tues. Those fees are added when consumers make long distance calls…
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on payphones. FCC in April put long distance companies in charge of collecting payphone fees from their resellers and, according to IPCA, long distance companies plan to increase types of calls for which fees would be payable. Fees currently are paid only when calls are completed, but starting over Thanksgiving weekend they will be charged for all attempted calls, whether or not they're completed. AT&T spokeswoman said long distance companies couldn’t tell whether resellers’ calls were completed so they couldn’t bill only for completed calls. However, she said long distance companies still were talking with FCC about “fair resolution” to reseller fees and no decision had been made.