Yes, you're right, I didn't chose well some words there.

Take a look at that website. Right now, it claims that best rate NOW is 90 satoshi / byte. But that can change in better or worse in the next minutes or hours.

Keep the link I gave you. Next time you or your friend sends Bitcoin, check the recommended fees there and also the size of the mempool. Now the mempool is big, meaning that the network got a huge number of transactions lately (in the last 16h). There use to be better days too, when 35 satoshi is more than enough for the transaction to be confirmed within an hour or two.