Local Exchange Service varied in price by state (and does today), while I've had a great deal of trouble tracking down historical rates for access (local exchange service) - I did find a document from the FCC [1] which has historical rates for may things , with this I found data for 1972 - if you extrapolate back from (a reasonable thing to do as the industry was heavily regulated, and rates were set based on rate of return) a monthly rate of 5.65 cents [1 - page 33] you end up with a range of 1-3 dollars a month.

Toll rates are a bit easier - ranging from .20 cents to 5.50 (1945 dollars) depending on distance for a 10 min long toll call. [1 - page 62]

Before the early 60's a local call on a payphone was a nickel, this may include any call - including the operator. As far as how billing and payment from payphone worked, you could make calls by putting coins in the pay phone, third party billing - or via collect call.

So, before the early 50's, all toll calls were operator assisted - you'd place a call to the operator, who may be able to put you thru right then - but more likely may need to phone you back when they had set up the connection to the remote city (particularly during WWII).

• Person to Person - calling for a specific person at a phone number, with no charge if they were not home.
• Station to Station - the same as a long distance call today.
• Collect Calling - where the distant party pays.
• Third Party Billing. - where you bill your call to a third phone number (like your home or office number)

I'm unable to find a reference for when the first long distance charge cards appeared, but I believe it was either the late 50's or early 60's.

[1 - https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/ref97.pdf]