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Re: America the Worst For Cell Rates and Plans

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:10:34 -0800

Marcus Didius Falco wrote:

>> What on earth are you talking about -- The callee DOES pay for
>> landline calls here. If you have a residential line, you normally get
>> flat-rate calling but businesses get metered rates. That's metered per
>> call in many places, but here it's per minute. You can get metered
>> rates for residential lines too -- if you don't make a ton of calls --
>> and pay a lower monthly rate.

> Surely you mean "caller pays" is the norm in the US. It's always
> "free" to receive calls (be the callee) on a land line.

Duh, yes. Sorry. I misread.

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