In message <571105A6.3040607@nvcube.net>, Nikolay Shopik writes:
On 15/04/16 17:51, John R. Levine wrote:
Putting mobiles into a handful of non-geographic codes as they do in Europe wouldn't work because the US is a very large country, long distance costs and charges were important, and they needed to be able to charge more for a mobile call across the country than across the street.
I would like to add that Russian mobiles in non-geographic codes and have free incoming calls (it wasn't until 2006) and also very large territory. But that created internal roaming prices within country.
So if you are making call not from your home region you'll pay more also you may pay for incoming call too (unless you pay for such option to make your abroad incoming calls free)
Australia is about the area as the US and has always had caller pays and seperate area codes for mobiles. Call costs are independent of the mobiles location unless you are OS where the callee picks up the OS component of the voice call (incoming SMS's are usually free even if you are OS, they slug you with replies however). I've also got a US SIM and had my credit run to zero dollars with the phone turned off due to the sillyness of the US system. No calls or SMS being delivered but I'm still getting charged. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org