Collect Call provided by OPTICOM

OPTICOM charged me $34.12 for a 4 minutes collect call that my father

made from JFK airport on his way from Russia to North Carolina. He is 72

years old, does not speak English and has difficulties in walking, he

traveled for over 10 hours on the overseas flight and asked the person

accompagnying him from the aircarrier company to place a call to my

house - to notify me that he made it safe to US and was waiting for his

connecting flight. There was no other way for me to reach my father

under the circumstances.

Now I have to pay for this call at an exorbiant rate of $8.53 (!) per

minute.

I'd like to know who and based on what establish such enormous rates

especially for the service that people normally use in critical or

urgent situations only. This is a robbery. I can't believe that this

rate is FCC approved.

Larisa Oktyabrsky