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".
ZM>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 
  
Ziggy, you are close, but think about this.  No one installs equipment to
handle 100% of traffic during the most extreme busy times.  Not cellular,
not the phone company, not street and highways.
Since most traffic is during the day, you use more expensive equipment
to handle the traffic during extreme busy times, so you have to charge more.
I'd like to be the one charging for cellular, but am not.  Since the plan
that we have makes no difference between time of day, I guess that I don't 
really care.  I do however, understand what it is to have to equip for 
the heavy useage time, just to see equipment wasted for the other 23 hours
of the day.
Thanks,  Lorin Potter
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