Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by kaslai on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:27PM
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All phones services I've used charge for total usage, regardless of the initiator. If someone calls me, I still get dinged for every minute I'm on the line, same as if I placed an outgoing call. (Granted, I've only used pay-as-you-go type services, so perhaps other services are different.)
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Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by josteink on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:13PM
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In Europe all services I have seen has been of the kind where whoever makes the call pays, and nobody ever gets charged for receiving calls.
Under such a system, this can become a issue.
I bet from the phone company they don't see the problem. Both were intending to place a call so they both pay :)
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by threeseed on Saturday June 03, 2017 @07:55PM
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Apparently only the US and Canada charge the phone owner for incoming calls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_services#Incoming_calls
Europe, Asia, Australia etc all charge the caller.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by kalleboo on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:41PM
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This leads to awkward situations like when I called someone in the US and they were worried that they're going to get charged international rates for a call from abroad.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by Sir_Substance on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:06PM
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Wow, dick move. Getting charged for the incoming call is something I associate with getting ripped off by roaming call charges.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
by therealidiot on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:07PM
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Many years ago, using Virgin Mobile (in the UK) I remember being charged for incoming calls, however these days on all UK networks (and I assume this is the case for most of Europe) the caller gets charged but the callee does not