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It works..because the Indian cellphone companies don't cheat you into paying a fee for RECEIVING sms or calls.
by avner 18y ago
It works..because the Indian cellphone companies don't cheat you into paying a fee for RECEIVING sms or calls.
- plinkplonk 18y agoyou have to pay for receiving calls/sms in the USA? wow !!! Fwiw, here in India, in the initial days of cell phone adoption, some phone cell service providers tried providing plans with "receiving charges", but no one used those plans so they (mostly) faded away. I assumed something like that happened in the United States as well. Another interesting phenomenon here is that (most) cell phones are not locked to a particular vendor. The cell phone manufacturers (Nokia , Samsung et al) compete (fiercely) on phones (almost every week a new phone launches) and the service providers (Airtel, Vodaphone et al) compete on service (bazillion plans with different mixes of features. You can shift a plan to another one i a few hours by sending a free sms to the service provider) You get a sim card from the carrier you subscribe to and buy a phone from wherever you want, insert the card and you are good to go. You can change or upgrade the phone and/or service provider independently of each other.
- dcurtis 18y agoWhat you are describing is the power of the open market; it's what happens when you don't have an oligopoly like we have here in the US.