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Re: Why were rural teleco's allowed to charge higher rates?

The big phones companies did not want to serve an area of 50 farm families because it is not profitable.
In retaliation, the states created the incentive of allowing anyone who would provide service in those areas to charge 6 cents a minute instead of the normal less than a penny a minutes for call terminations.
The big phone companies are basically forced to subsidize those areas when their customers call there. It never really mattered when it was only 50 farm families living there, but now that there are 1,000s of extra scammer phone lines for sex and conference lines the high fees are simply stealing from the big phone companies and now voip providers.
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