TELECOM INDUSTRY COURTS LATINOS
Latinos rack up phone bills calling family

By YUKI NOGUCHI
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Elmer Arias whizzes through 5,000 minutes a month on his cell phone, racking up at least $200 in charges, which include daily phone calls to his native El Salvador.

''As a business owner and as president of the Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce, I call (El Salvador) maybe two times a day for 15 or 20 minutes each,'' says Arias, a suburban restaurant owner. That doesn't include regular calls to friends and relatives, or to in-laws in Mexico.

And it's almost a sure bet Charlie Rizzo's Nextel phone is either ringing or beeping.

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