Is the reciever of a long distance call charged money?
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at
1:47 am
My friend in Canada (I’m in the US) wants to call our regular phone. I know it should charge her, but buy drugs will it charge me?
Callers are usually offered a variety of rate "plans" depending on usage, although which plan is cheapest for a given amount of usage is often not obvious. For example, the largest carrier, AT&T (in February 2007), offered three plans in the United States: $30 per month for unlimited calling, $10 per month for 120 minutes plus 10 cents per minute thereafter, or $2 per month and 10 cents per minute. Graphing rate vs. usage shows that the $2 per month plan is cheapest if calling 80 minutes or less per month, the $10 per month plan is cheapest if calling 80 to 320 minutes per month, and the $30 per month plan is cheapest if calling over 320 minutes per month.
Normally it is the calling person only who is billed for the call. There are exceptions to that rule. If I call forward my phone to another location outside my calling area, then I get billed for that call.