golf_buddy
01-21-2003, 11:50 PM
Many people have been using remote phone numbers (RCF) to save money on their collect calls for years. Since this concept does save families substantially on their collect calls it has grown in popularity. As it has grown in popularity it has also drawn the attention of the State DOCs and the prison pay phone operators like MCI, AT&T, T-Netix and Sprint.
I hope everyone reading this realizes that most every state requires a kick back of approximately 50% of all the revenue generated by the phones. So now these pay phone operators are now telling the State DOCs that their revenue is down because of all the remote lines. It couldn't be because they have raised prices so high that most people can not afford to accept many calls any longer because they are phone poor.
Now that the revenue for both is declining. They are both scrambling to reverse the trend. Unfortunately they are many times resulting to tactics which are not only immoral but in some cases illegal. I have heard of cases where prison officials have put up memos saying that calling a remote line is illegal and in some cases they have even threatened inmates with disciplinary action if they call a remote number. I have also heard that the pay phone providers are blocking access to the remote numbers. All these tactics are wrong and illegal.
Owning a remote number is your choice and allowing the prisoner to call you on your number is their obligation (as long as you are an approved person for him to call). Blocking access to your remote line, whether by intimadtion or actual, is restrain of trade and illegal.
The FCC has been asked to reveiw this issue but in order to do that they must feel confident that these tactics are going on. We need your help. If you have used a remote line and had any problem with the prison or the pay phone provider in the prison the FCC wants to hear from you. In your letter tell them what the prison or the pay phone operator did and tell them why having the remote line was important to you and the prisoner.
Please direct your letters to:
Tele-Net, Inc.
PO Box 620909
Oviedo, FL 32762-0909
Remember the righteous will prevail.
I hope everyone reading this realizes that most every state requires a kick back of approximately 50% of all the revenue generated by the phones. So now these pay phone operators are now telling the State DOCs that their revenue is down because of all the remote lines. It couldn't be because they have raised prices so high that most people can not afford to accept many calls any longer because they are phone poor.
Now that the revenue for both is declining. They are both scrambling to reverse the trend. Unfortunately they are many times resulting to tactics which are not only immoral but in some cases illegal. I have heard of cases where prison officials have put up memos saying that calling a remote line is illegal and in some cases they have even threatened inmates with disciplinary action if they call a remote number. I have also heard that the pay phone providers are blocking access to the remote numbers. All these tactics are wrong and illegal.
Owning a remote number is your choice and allowing the prisoner to call you on your number is their obligation (as long as you are an approved person for him to call). Blocking access to your remote line, whether by intimadtion or actual, is restrain of trade and illegal.
The FCC has been asked to reveiw this issue but in order to do that they must feel confident that these tactics are going on. We need your help. If you have used a remote line and had any problem with the prison or the pay phone provider in the prison the FCC wants to hear from you. In your letter tell them what the prison or the pay phone operator did and tell them why having the remote line was important to you and the prisoner.
Please direct your letters to:
Tele-Net, Inc.
PO Box 620909
Oviedo, FL 32762-0909
Remember the righteous will prevail.