- When you order service, Pacific Telephone Company has a new (FX)
Foreign Exchange Phone Number installed on your existing home
phone line, that's a local number to the facility where the inmate is
being held.
- Nothing changes on your end, as you can make and receive calls from
your home phone as you always had.
- When the Inmate wishes to call home, the inmate simply calls the
new (FX) local telephone number instead of your existing number,
using his BOP issued (PAC) Personal Access Code. When calling
the (FX) number, the inmate is charged a local call Origination Fee
of $0.06 per minute by the BOP Inmate Telephone System.
- The Inmate's call is routed just as before through the prison's SIS
security monitoring facility, where it is recorded like all other calls as
required by Bureau of Prisons Program Statement 5264, and out to
the local telephone company's central office providing service to the
prison.
- Utilizing SS7 via DS3 connectivity, the local phone company then
passes the call to our (ICX) Interexchange Carrier's Network Access
Point, where it seamlessly connects to our channelized network
trunking system through major exchange access carrier transmission
to one our Network Hub Points that's closest to your home.
- The call is then routed from our Network HUB via regular telephone
lines to the switch network access point connected to the local phone
companies central office near when you live, and rings on the (FX) line
installed on the local number in your home.
- Pacific Telephone charges Network Termination Fees as low as
$0.06 per minute, bringing the cost of a 15 minute phone call to $0.12
per minute totaling $1.80; a significant savings over the $0.23 per
minute $3.45, 15 minute call rate of the BOP.
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