Phone Call Costs
Discussions center on the costs of making and receiving phone calls, including country-specific models like US recipient-pays versus caller-pays elsewhere, historical per-minute charges, and implications for spam and modern unlimited plans.
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Making real phone calls costs real money.
Wait, it costs money to receive calls in the US?
Telcos charge for connecting phone calls and routing voice packets. Even robocallers have to pay those fees.
In most countries the caller pays, not the callee. So he is saving his callers money, not himself.
Phone calls do cost money. Unlimited mobile calling plans are very recent, and many areas in the world are still by the minute and rather expensive.
The user could be from a country where paying to receive phone-calls is unknown. From some brief Wikipedia research, this is only a common model in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiving_party_pays)
Why should anyone have to pay to do trivial service to their own phone?
Phones call with interesting fees? Do you mean Google Fi which I know many users of?
Imagine you had to pay extra when calling someone in a different state in the US (like it used to be with landlines). Why would anyone want to go back to that? Except the telephony providers, of course.
Does this reasoning work when I don't want to pay for the pay-per-call calls I made on my phone?