On 15/04/16 17:51, John R. Levine wrote: > Putting mobiles into a handful of non-geographic codes as they do in > Europe wouldn't work because the US is a very large country, long > distance costs and charges were important, and they needed to be able > to charge more for a mobile call across the country than across the > street.
I would like to add that Russian mobiles in non-geographic codes and have free incoming calls (it wasn't until 2006) and also very large territory. But that created internal roaming prices within country. So if you are making call not from your home region you'll pay more also you may pay for incoming call too (unless you pay for such option to make your abroad incoming calls free)
