If I call a long distance landline number with my cell phone, will the landline number be charged?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at
7:16 am
Debbie ~ asked:
I have a T-mobile, with favfive. If I call one of my favfive numbers, and it is a long distance call to a landline phone number, will it charge the landline number for the long distance call?
I have a T-mobile, with favfive. If I call one of my favfive numbers, and it is a long distance call to a landline phone number, will it charge the landline number for the long distance call?
No. The caller is charged, not the recipient of the call. If you don’t have a plan for free long distance (which I don’t know anyone whose plan does not cover long distance on a cell phone) then you would be charged. The person you are calling is never charged, unless you call collect.
I have never known a fixed network phone company to charge people for receiving calls, regardless where the call was from, or how the incoming was made.
Now having said that, I don’t know where in the world your landline phone number is, so I won’t say never, just VERY VERY VERY UNLIKELY.
The rationale is that since you don’t know who is calling you until you pick up the phone to answer it, it would be unfair to you if someone tries to run up your phone bill just be calling your number many many times. I’ve known a friend who happened to get a number that used to belong to a company that failed and was no longer in business. He ended up getting many phone calls from people looking for that defunct business, and some calls were not so friendly. He eventually have to get the phone company to give him a new number.