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“They got a phone right there that you get to use, but once again it’s a collect call from a payphone,” Harris, 35, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2020

A teaser for director Geno McDermott’s film opens with chilling audio of a collect call Hernandez made to his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2019

Company product managers discussed testing new features to collect call logs on Android smartphones in a way that might have made it harder for users to understand what they were giving away.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2018

At long last, my client was allowed to make a tearful, five-minute collect call to his wife, in which he confirmed that he was alive and that he would be deported the next day.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2017

Tex took me to a phone booth and I dialed zero and told the operator the number and yes, this was a collect call.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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