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>As a naive outsider, seems like it wouldn't take much to just connect those two calls. Who would you charge for the call?
by Sir_Substance 9y ago
>As a naive outsider, seems like it wouldn't take much to just connect those two calls.
Who would you charge for the call?
- kaslai 9y agoAll 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.)
- josteink 9y agoIn 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.
- Moru 9y agoI bet from the phone company they don't see the problem. Both were intending to place a call so they both pay :)
- threeseed 9y agoApparently only the US and Canada charge the phone owner for incoming calls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_services#Incoming_calls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_services#Incoming_calls Europe, Asia, Australia etc all charge the caller.
- kalleboo 9y agoThis 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.
- Sir_Substance 9y agoWow, dick move. Getting charged for the incoming call is something I associate with getting ripped off by roaming call charges.
- therealidiot 9y agoMany 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
- ForHackernews 9y agoBoth of them, obviously. ;)
- wruza 9y agoThe one with lower timestamp.