Do You Pay To Recieve Mobile Phone Calls?
I was shocked to read this article on the Telegraph website a few days ago!
The idea of having to pay to RECEIVE a call on a mobile phone is totally absurd to me and I'm sure many other Brits.
I'd definitely have to think twice about keeping my mobile if that were to come into effect.
I was chatting about this with my daughter, her boyfriend lives in USA (South Carolina) during term time, he's in university there and he has told her it's very common to have to pay for the incoming calls over there.
So my dear readers over the pond.. Is this true? Are you all paying to make and receive calls?
Do you have any packages of free calls like we do over here in UK?
I'm just interested in case this really does come into effect over here!!
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In Singapore, you have to pay for incoming calls as well. At least, that's what my aunt says. I certainly wouldn't want a mobile phone if that is true!
Cell phone are mostly pay by the minute over here. One buys a package of however many minutes they think they will use and each call, whether incoming or outgoing, is deducted from the package of minutes. So if you buy a package with 1000 minutes, then you get 1000 minutes of talk time. It's not a new thing, though. It's pretty much always been that way here, so I wouldn't expect the UK to start that if they haven't already.
Although, really, recently the wireless companies have introduced unlimited packages. Like $99 a month for unlimited talk time, texting, web browsing, data, etc. That's the best deal, and is probably going to totally change the way wireless phones are sold here.
I have one of those pay phones that's called 'pay as you go,' because I didn't want the hassle of a contract. I've had this phone for a year, and am finally considering one of the plans that costs about $40 a month. The plan comes with 450 minutes, "up to 5,000 minutes nights and weekends." Of course, the plan comes with a nifty phone that has a camera, video recorder, and makes toast as well (joke).
That's the way it works here in Canada.
My cell phone is pay by the minute. I think that most here are pay by the minute, but I think they have other packages. I'm not all that up to date on cell phones.
...Please put another dime in the pay phone, or you will be disconnected...
Remember pay phones? There are less and less of them here.
Depends on the plan you get (BC, Canada). We have one that has a monthly fee for a certain number of minutes, then once you surpass the limit, you pay per minute for everything else.
Yeah, pretty much all the carriers in the States deduct minutes off of your plan for incoming calls. It's generally ok, though, as most of us have more minutes than we know what to do with. I just wish there were better plans for text here. It ends up being quite expensive.
It's just like all your other readers have said you pick a plan with whatever amount of minutes you choose. The minutes are deducted for incoming and outgoing calls. If you go over your minutes you are charged (mine is $.45) per minute. Crazy right they do have some compnies where you don't have minutes deducted if you choose mobile to mobile but you have to ask for that plan and it costs extra. Someone is always trying to rip you off any way they can.Aint it great to live the American way?
Yeah, I have a family plan, both my kids cell phones are on my plan and it is a minutes package. That does includes minutes coming in as well as going out. "Talk time". I recently had to add a texting package since my daughter uses that feature so much.
I definetely get minutes taken off for incoming calls, it really stinks
we pay for everything on our phones-incoming and outgoing,,sometimes we don`t get charged for dropped calls
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