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Originally posted by Memnoch:
Why is it that in the US you get charged for incoming calls on your mobile as well as outgoing? So they're effectively charging two people for the same call?
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All I can figure on that is that it's because they can't determine if you are calling another cell or a land line somewhere. All the carriers know is that you both are on the cell phone using minutes.
Now, if you pay a little extra for their "friends and family" plan or "mobile to mobile" plan, they somehow miraculously know that you are now calling someone on *their* cell from *your* cell and vice versa.
Amazing, isn't it? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
For me, I never worry about minutes. My mother and father had Cingular when he passed and I'm now using his old phone on her plan. She pays $35.00/mo for her phone and $10.00/mo for mine (plus, we added Hiram for another $20.00/mo).
We have rollover minutes, free nights/weekends and something like 650 anytime minutes AND mobile to mobile (which, when you are with Cingular per our plan it is "free"...we use *no* minutes) and we *never* use up all the free stuff. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
[ 07-06-2005, 02:13 PM: Message edited by: Lady Sedai ]