Do incoming mobile calls cost money in the US?

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In the US, unless your using a cell phone for business, it is purely a luxury. We have near 100% home land line use, which is slowly dropping because of students who would rather have a cell phone than changing their land line ever semester when they change apartments.

In the US, we have 10 year old kids with cell phones, which they have absolutely NO need for. However, I do understand that in Europe that the landlines are in such bad shape that cell phones are better quality and cover those areas that don't even have landlines.

So yea, the US could stop using cell phones and I'd be quite happy, but that is because we have a better phone infrastructure than most other countries. And other than business people (like sales managers who have to travel a lot) everyone could get by perfectly fine.

I happen to have both a land line and cell phone, but i bought my cell phone as an emergency device in case my motorcycle breaks down in the middle of nowhere, other than that it is a luxury.