Sentence examples for fees on phone from inspiring English sources

The program assesses the fees on phone companies, but they typically pass the cost to consumers.

But it could curtail high early-termination fees on phone contracts, which are subject to more intense regulation.

Fees on phone orders (where the merchant types the number into the system rather than swiping the card) might cost in the 5% to 8% range, for instance.

Those caps, however, didn't affect intra-state calls, which make up the bulk of costs in the prison communications industry.Thursday's order addresses that, by setting a cap on all local and long distance calls from state and federal prisons at 11 cents per minute in an effort to "rein in the excessive rates and egregious fees on phone calls," the commission said.

The Practical Traveler column on Aug. 14, about avoiding large data roaming fees on phones when trav- eling abroad, misstated the time pe- riod for a program in which Verizon Wireless offers a loaner phone for those traveling to a country where Verizon phones are not compatible.

"There's been a movement towards separating out fees on customers' phone bills," Ms. Hassett said.

Adding insult to injury, the FCC's National Broadband Plan has allowed the phone companies to get even more subsidies -- read new taxes and fees placed on phone bills.

Giants Nokia nok, Motorola mot, Ericsson ericy and others have done just that, paying Qualcomm a fee on every phone they sell.

Under the old subsidized plan, these users continued to pay a monthly fee on a phone that they already owned outright.

Every month, consumers pay a small fee on their phone bills for a federal program that uses the money — a total of $8.8 billion raised nationwide last year — to provide affordable access to telecommunications services in rural areas, underserved inner cities and schools.

Ever wonder what those mysterious government service fees on your cell phone bill go to fund?