Hi George,
GE>It's called the law of supply and demand. The resources of the cellular
GE>networks are finite. The demand for airtime is higher during the
GE>business day than it is at night. Since demand relative to supply is
GE>higher during the day, the price is also higher.
GE>
GE>It's called "capitalism".
In every other business I know of, when a product is more in demand, 
generally the price falls. The only reason for higher prices during the 
day for phones is because they can get away with it. It's not like the 
old days when more telephone operators had to be employed daytime to 
cope with the volume. Nowadays it costs the same to operate 24 hours a 
day for the providers because it is fully automated. In fact, logically 
off-peak calls should cost more because less revenue is generated in 
those times but the same amount of personnel are employed by the 
providers and cost the same.
This is not capitalism, this is rip-off-ism.....
Cheers - Ziggy
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