"S Viemeister" wrote in
message news:555iokF20cr9gU1@mid.individual.net
> Mary Pegg wrote:
> >
> > OK - how much does it cost you to make a landline to
> > mobile call in the US? And how much does it cost the
> > recipient?
> There will be many different answers to that question.
> In the US, mobiles/cellphones (with a very few possible
> exceptions) don't have distinctive mobile-only dialing
> codes/area codes. The caller pays the same charge for
> calling landline as for calling a mobile, in a given
> dialing code. The recipient may or may not be charged,
> depending on the terms of his service plan.
Plus numbers can be freely ported from landline to mobile and vice versa.
Each to his own, personally, having spent time in the US I prefer their
system, but it's unlikely we'll ever get it here, more's the pity. It
would be nice if it were available as a tariff option though.
Ivor
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