General cell phone question

[Lifer]

When do cell phone's start charging you for air time?
Is it when you hit call/send?
Or is it when you connect?

Do you get charged for calls that don't go thru? like it rings, but no one picks up.

(when I say charged, I mean using your allotted minutes)

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: Lifer
When do cell phone's start charging you for air time?
Is it when you hit call/send?
Or is it when you connect?

Do you get charged for calls that don't go thru? like it rings, but no one picks up.

(when I say charged, I mean using your allotted minutes)

When you connect I believe, but if you dial and somebody doesn't pick up w/i 30 seconds you get charged a minute, AT&T changed their policy to this over the summer so many people including myself where able to get out of their contracts. I have t-mobile now and have so many minutes I don't worry about it anymore.

 

[notfred]

I don't really care cause I've never once gone over my monthly amount of minutes.

 

[rudeguy]

general rule is if you connect its charged from when the dial tone started, if no one answers (including voicemail/answering machine) you dont get charged at all...that means if it rings 16,000 times and then someone picks up, you are charged for all that time it was ringing

 

[EvilYoda]

yeah, as soon as they pick up (or you get their machine/VM).

 

[erub]

calls to other people's voicemail most definitely incur airtime.with Cingular, unanswered calls for more than 30 seconds incur airtime.