[comp.dcom.telecom] Paying for incoming calls

covert%covert.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (John R. Covert) (08/26/88)

>For readers in the United States (and Canada, I believe) you live with
>something that we would find unthinkable -- you pay message units for
>INCOMING calls as well as outgoing.  (At least in Britain, that is so).

Who pays message units for incoming calls in Britain?  Where did you get
this information?  I'm 99.44% sure you're 100% wrong.

In the U.K., even cellular phone subscribers don't have to pay for their
incoming calls (as we do here); the landline caller pays a higher rate when
calling either Cellnet or Vodaphone (the two nationwide companies) numbers.
which all begin with 0850 or 0836.

/john