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You buy a phone card on Saturday for $10.00
Fine print on card:
Cost per minute:$ 0.01
Activation fee: $1.00
Maintenance fee: $0.50 per week
Connection charge: $0.49
Billing Increment: 1 minute
Saturday night you call your girlfriend/boyfriend for 60 minutes
Activation fee costs $1.00
Connection fee costs $0.49
minutes used costs $0.60
remaining value of card = $10.00 - 1.00 - .49 - .60 = $7.81
This call actually cost you $2.19, or 3.65¢ per minute
Sunday night you call your mother for 15 minutes:
Connection fee costs $0.49
Minutes used cost $0.15
remaining value of card = 7.81 - .49 - .15 = $7.17
This call actually cost you 64¢ or 4.27¢ per minute
Saturday you call your girlfriend/boyfriend for 60 minutes:
Maintenance fee costs $0.50 (a week has passed)
Connection fee costs $0.49
Minutes used cost $0.60
Remaining value of card = 7.17 - .50 - .49 - 60 = $5.58
This call actually cost you $1.59 or 2.65¢ per minute
Sunday afternoon you call your mother and get her answering machine. Even though you hang up immediately, this is considered a 1-miinute call.
Connection fee costs $0.49
Minutes used cost $0.01
remaining value of card = 5.58 - .49 - .01 = $5.08
This call actually cost you 50¢ or 50¢ per minute
Sunday night you call your mother for 15 minutes:
Connection fee costs $0.49
Minutes used cost $0.15
remaining value of card = 5.08 - .49 - .15 = $4.44
This call actually cost you 64¢ or 4.27¢ per minute
And so it goes. By this time you have made 151 minutes of calls at a cost of $5.56.
This is a per minute rate of 3.68¢ which is a LOT more that the 1¢ printed in big print on the card!