Hello all, I just came across an interesting article in the LA Times on the cost of calling in the US. The form of subscriptions in the US is quite different from other places. In the US there are "plans" that are sometimes referred to as buckets of minutes. You buy a bucket of minutes and if you use all of it then you pay at one rate. However, to the degree that there are minutes (or text messages) left at the end of the month, then the used minutes are correspondingly more expensive.
Another difference is that in the US the receiving and the calling parties both pay for the conversation or the texting exchange. In much of the rest of the world it is only the calling party that pays. A link to the original article is below. Rich L. The link to the Ning site is: http://mobilesociety.ning.com/profiles/blogs/talk-isnt-cheap-for-cellphone A study shows many customers pay for much more time than they use David Lazarus March 8, 2009 If you're like most cellphone users, you probably think you're paying less than 10 cents per minute for calls. Think again. When you do the math, you find the average cellphone customer actually pays more than $3 per minute, according to a report being issued this week by the Utility Consumers' Action Network, a San Diego consumer advocacy group. I got a sneak peek at the report the other day. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus8-2009mar08,0,879700,full.column --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
