Now cell phone companies are pushing to charge the caller when he calls a cell p hone. This is only fair, right? After all, he is the one who made the call, wh y should the owner of the cell phone pay for a call he didn't make? Cell phone companies argue that when you make a call from a normal phone, the caller pays the charges, whether they be local tolls or long distance charges. Cell phone compaines feel like they should be treated the same way.
Well, the first thing that makes me suspicious is that the cell phone companies probably love this because it pushes one of the costs of owning a cell phone off onto a person who has nothing to do with the cell phone owner's decision to purchase a cell phone. This reduces the cost of owning a cell phone without reducing the income of the cell phone companies. Putting the charges on the caller also forces the caller to help pay for the cell phone owner's convenience. The caller gains nothing by calling a cell phone except for an additional cost. The cell phone owner now gets the mobility of the cell phone without all the costs.
The major difference between cell phone charges and long-distance charges are cell phone charges are incurred because of special equipment on the cell phone owner's end which gives the cell phone owner a benefit while long-distance charges are a cost incurred by the long-distance call in added infrastructure.
If they make this change and you have a cell phone which charges the caller, don't give me your cell phone number since I won't be calling you.