*** Quoting Paul Sanders from a message to Dale Shipp ***

PS> Hi Dale,

DS>  What is not fair in your mind?  Do you have a reason why you think
DS>  that only the callee should pay?   IMO, it is arbitary.

PS> Example, I am out in the truck, my boss calls and wants me to go to a
PS> certain quarry to get a load of (whatever), why should I have to pay
PS> for his call ?

I agree with you Paul, but my cell usage has been almost exclusively in
Asia ¨and that is the pattern.  The caller pays for the call.

The same pattern was there in the states but I left before cell phones
really ¨'took off' there.  There was some hidden 'air time' thing they had
there that ¨those monthly contracts had where even if all your calls were
inbound, if you ¨hit a limit of time on air, you paid extra if it was over
your contract.  I've ¨since seen 'unlimited airtime' in ads from the USA?

My pre-paid cell is easy.  I pay more per minute than a landline but at an
¨acceptable rate and anything on my Kyushu island (the one I am on) is a
set ¨rate of 10 yen a minute.  From another island, I pay a range depending
on how ¨many islands-distance I am away.  Okinawa is 50 or 60 yen a minute
which is the ¨top end I think you can hit.

                                       xxcarol

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