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Re: America the Worst For Cell Rates and Plans

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:35:55 -0800

kansaskon wrote:

> America has the worst mobile telephone calling rates and plans in the
> world. For example nowhere in the world do you pay or are deducted
> minutes for recieving calls its just unheard of.

Calling Party Pays (where the caller, not the call recipient, pays for
a call to a cell phone) was tried in the US, and failed
miserably. It's not the way most people want to handle cell phone
billing.

AirTouch used to have CPP. A friend of mine had it on his phone line.

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