Do incoming mobile calls cost money in the US?

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@Twroo: There's actually directive considering the roaming contracts, which says that inside EU you can't charge more than you do at your home country. I can't remember the given time period, when the directive takes place, but it should be pretty close.

@Nordlead: Well landlines are basically everywhere. And i don't know about their bad condition, since they usually are being kept in condition. But, you were right, that the mobile network is being heavily pushed because of costs, when thinking that the poles, which are used to keep the lines off the ground, have life cycle between 30 to 50 years (depending the conditions where the poles are placed and what chemicals are used for their protection). Also (especially at winter) falling trees often cut the wires.
The mobile network doesnt have similar need for keeping it in condition and the towers where amplifiers/transmitters/receivers have steel structures that last at least as long as the wooden poles at longest, they don't get damaged by falling trees and the only thing to what the towers are more vulnerable to is thunder, and even if thunder would damage the electronics in single tower, instead of shutting down the network in the area, in most places the connection just directs to another tower.

Yes, a lot of phones are bought to kids who don't need it. A lot of parents buy phones to their kids, when they start school or first christmas after school have started or at least when they start second grade and know how to read. If you're ten and don't have a mobile phone, you end up having a risk getting bullied at school these days.
Ten year olds do have use for their phones, but very little.

I don't have land line (except for internet) because i don't need one when i have my mobile phone and it would be so damn expensive and impractical. And i don't know anyone under 50 with landline phone and don't know any adult without a mobile, after my father and my wifes grandmother died.