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>In the US, the callee pays for airtime that is literally shocking. so not only are robocallers irritating, they’re also costing you money? America needs to ge
by permo-w 4y ago
>In the US, the callee pays for airtime
that is literally shocking. so not only are robocallers irritating, they’re also costing you money? America needs to get its shit together
- jandrese 4y agoThis is rarely true 2022. Most phone plans have unlimited (unmetered) minutes. Back when people had to pay for their minutes there was a LOT more pressure to keep spammers off of cell numbers.
- UncleEntity 4y agoMy first spam call on a cellphone circa 1998 had the poor girl on the other end literally crying after I started going off about how much money that call was costing me. I didn’t mean to make her cry but it was costing me money after all…
- terinjokes 4y agoMobile numbers in the US are also assigned geographically alongside landlines. So it's not possible ahead of time to know if a number is mobile or not, making caller pays very unpredictable.