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I said tens of millions since you said it was a few cents for each subscriber, but one million dollars for every hour. (Perhaps I did not read that correctly?)
by Chinjut 7y ago
I said tens of millions since you said it was a few cents for each subscriber, but one million dollars for every hour. (Perhaps I did not read that correctly?)
- unnouinceput 7y agoYeah, I meant that each time you get that voice mail you'd pay a few cents. If my memory serve me correctly was 5 cents for initial 20 seconds and then 1 cent for each 10 seconds after that. As a side anecdote, cell companies started a war among themselves with different features to lure customers from one network to another, and one of those features was at one time that initial 3 seconds were free, and after them it kicked the normal fees. So here I was a student in University campus and absolutely every single student had a cell, but you'd call your friends something like: "Hi X, it's me Y" and click, close the phone. Then call "I need this course" and click, close the phone. And so on and so forth until you'd finish your conversation. And at the end of the month when cell company was issuing the bill, you'd receive a very thick envelope that would have like 50 pages in it and the majority of it would read like this for each row: <destination number> - <begin time> - <duration> - <price>, where <duration> would be something like 1 second or 2 seconds, and <price> would be "free". It didn't last, cause companies understood they were losing money by printing those pages so it was a feature for like couple of months, but oh boy that was fun. Good times.