I was shocked when I open my home phone bill. On it was an additional bill from an independent service provider called IOS/ILD. My 17 year old son had made a collect call from his college campus.
The total duration of the call was 1 minute. They billed me $9.37 for the call, plus $1.50 bill statement fee, .28 Federal Excise tax and Non-regulated Federal excise tax of $.05.
Bill totaling $11.20!
Who in their right mind would pay over $11 for a 1 minute phonecall!