Hi all!
I'm writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The government has just enforced "calling party pays", as opposite to "mobile 
party pays" (which nevertheless remains optional for the owner of the 
cellular phone). Today is the first day of this system.
Up to now, the owner of the cellular phone was charged with both the incoming 
and outcoming calls. From now on, unless he chooses otherwise, he will be 
charged only the outcoming calls. The incoming ones will be charged (u$s 0,35 
plus taxes, per minute) to the caller in his phone invoice. For him to know 
that he is calling a cellular phone, he'll have to dial the prefix 15. As one 
of the cellular phones (Movicom) wrote in an advertisment: "If you dial 15, 
you are agreeing to pay".
However, one of the landline phone companies (Telef˘nica de Argentina) has 
sued the government, complaining that this system is unfair and 
unconstitutional. Its main argument is that the landline users subsidize the 
cellular companies. I think this is wrong, for no one is forced to call a 
cellular phone if he doesn't want to.
I would like to know what happens in the countries of other members of this 
echo. Who pays the incoming call to a mobile phone? Has any company or 
individual gone to the courts opposing this system? What was the final 
sult?
Thanks in advance. Regards from the homeland of tango,
Daniel 
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