>in USA, the callee pays. Except in certain circumstances, I don't think this is true. First, most calls are free now. You might have a number of minutes, bu

>in USA, the callee pays. Except in certain circumstances, I don't think this is true. First, most calls are free now. You might have a number of minutes, but both the caller and callee have to pay for minutes at the same time. But most plans are unlimited calling within the USA now, I believe. When calling other countries, the caller pays. Receiving a call from another country doesn't cost anything. "Collect calls" are calls where the callee pays the long-distance charges. This is unrelated to the "minutes" above. There are no long-distance charges within the USA that I know of, but international charges will apply to the caller unless they "call collect" and then it would be the callee. The callee has to approve it, though. Most 1-800 (and 1-888 IIRC) numbers automatically charge the callee instead of the caller. This is an agreement that the callee has with the phone provider. 1-900 numbers (and certain 1-800 numbers, for some reason) charge the caller. These are another agreement with the phone provider by the callee, and they're supposed to get consent from the caller before charging, but there are many scams here. Because of the lack of long distance charges inside the USA, 1-800 numbers aren't as common as they used to be. For a while, almost any business that had wide-ranging customers had one. Now, it seems like only mega-corps still have them. All that said, I vaguely remember someone saying that they had 2 sim cards because they had 2 plans. IIRC, they got better long distance rates on one or the other, and used them appropriately. That was a while back, though, and I could be remembering it completely wrong.