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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Phone Service Carriers for Prisoners

By Rodney Andrews


Those who are serving a sentence in jails and other such centers can keep in touch with their family and others with the help of communication systems provided by the jail authorities but these are regulated. The authorities can control, terminate, listen to or record any conversation for reasons of security. The inmates can avail of services from these inmate phone providers either in the form of collect calls, prepaid calls or even use a debit card.

Pay-Tel is one of the inmate phone providers in southeastern United States, which provide their services in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Virginia. They have an online interface which helps the inmates to setup their accounts, check out their balance amount. These kind of inmate phone providers also allow the prisoner to make a payment online, ask for a refund. Pay-Tel also has an automated customer service that is available 24/7 to assist the inmates in case of any problem.

Pay-Tel inmate phone providers can be availed by inmates who have reached their maximum limit with their local telephone company billing for the usual collect calls. In some cases, the local telephone company or the wireless operator refuses to bill inmate collect calls in which case they can go to the Pay-Tel inmate phone providers. They also offer a discount on each collect call made and additionally, it is very simple to manage your calls and the bill amount through them.

Pay-Tel makes the bill charges only after the receiver has confirmed accepting the call. In addition, as soon as a call is made by an inmate, they announce the name of the inmate along with the detention center details. The caller can also know the amount of the charges to be made.

A Family Connection Calling Plan is offered by such inmate phone providers along with their prepaid card, and this is relatively cheaper to the rates offered by local companies. Another benefit to the inmates is that, Pay-Tel does not require any credit check for the prepaid card whereas for the Direct Bill account the inmate has to give a credit application passed by Beacon Credit Score, and only then he can call up to the limit of credit allowed. The discount offered also depends on the amount of money deposited for prepaid cards.




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