I've heard some U.S. cellular carriers are experimenting with "caller pays" billing. Does anyone on the list have experience with "caller pays"?
I was totally amazed when I heard from a US friend that US cell phones don't bill the caller! My immediate thought was "people can spam call you and run your bill up, ouch!"
UK cellphone companies used to charge a rate to both the caller and the recieving party for cellphone calls (if I recall correctly the only companies operating then were cellnet and vodaphone, now there are two other PCS networks, orange and mercury one2one), are any US companies operating the same schemes as the new ones being offered over here (that is, one buys a cellphone then pays no line rental, just call charges up front, the advantages are obvious for those who make very few calls as there is no $40 per month line rental charge, but the calls are expensive (around $1 per minute)). Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"