[asterisk-biz] Toll free origination from payphones

[Trevor G. Hammonds]

From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:10 AM

>On 8/28/07, Wes Baehr <wbaehr at abilitybusiness.com> wrote:
>> Gafachi will do this -- toll-free rate is still 2.4c/m, and payphone
>> surcharge is (only) $0.29
>>
>> Wes Baehr
>>
>>
>
>that is less than the PSP compensation generally is, wonder if they
>are losing money hoping to make it up in the minutes (which seem a bit
>high) or if they havent updated their rate tables since 1997 (it was
>about that back then).
>
>-- 
>Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel

The FCC set the payphone dial-around compensation at $0.24 per call back in
1999.  Last I checked, it is still the same.  Prior to that, it was $0.284
per call.  What the IXC is allowed to charge the consumer is another thing
entirely.  

		Sincerely,
		Trevor Hammonds