Originally Posted by spanglysteve:
“Thats rediculous, why should they charge you for someone else calling you, surely the other person should pick up the cost of calling you?”
In the USA and a couple of other countries it is the person being called who has to pay the difference in the high cost of running the call.
In the UK and most of the rest of the world, the person calling the mobile phone pays the difference, hence it's dearer to call a mobile than a landline.
In the USA (& Canada) and a couple of other countries the cost to call a mobile is the same as the cost to call a landline, however the person you are calling has to pay the difference, either at a rate of 10 - 15c / minute or taken out of their inclusive minutes. This is why it took a lot longer for mobiles to take off in the USA.