Because in Europe tha caller is ripped of, but that doesn't intrest. I I want to talk to a mobile phone i pay about 20 €cent/Minute. So in america the guy with the mobile pays (because he wants to be mobile) in europe the guy calling the guy with mobile pays. I think the american system is more fair.

You can have text messages blocked.  I did when i got my phone.  My dumbass friends kept sending me senseless text messages when they coulda took 2 minutes to call me.

Also, don't feel bad about us US guys. I mean we still get to pay less then 100 dollars a videogame.

The caller isn´t ripped of en Europe and how is the american way fair?

The caller knows the costs and he is the one creating the traffic and that´s why the caller should pay.

 Are mobile calls that expensive in Germany? I got my first mobile as late as -98 and since then pricing have never been that high (prices have just dropped since then).

Eh, my little sister blabs on her cell phone for like 3 hours a night, but I think her friend often initiates the call. They both want to talk though. So...only the friend should pay every time? I think both my sister and her friend should pay...they're both blabbing on the phone.

It makes enough sense to me.

There are also plans that have unlimited free calling in the network.

My home plan includes this but my work plan does not ... even though they are in the same network. So when I am on the road and my wife calls me via the cell phone, it costs us nothing but goes against my mothly applications of minutes at work.

Mike from Morgantown

So you should also pay in order to receive a letter? After all, you're interested in reading what the sender wrote. It doesn't make much sense to me - if someone wants to communicate with me, they pay. If I want to communicate with someone, I pay. If we want to split costs, we can just call each other every once in a while.

Making someone pay for something they didn't choose to initiate or necessarily have any interest in doesn't make sense to me, but to each his own.

Well that's true, but if you decide to answer the phone you are initiating and do have interest. You can always not answer. I frequently don't answer mine just because I don't feel like talking on the phone.

Anyways, you're not really paying, it's just coming out of your allotted minutes. I'm on the same plan as my gf and we pay a total of $70 a month for both phones($35per). It never costs more than that and we're never close to running out of minutes. She talks for HOURS at a time. About every 3 or 4 days she'll talk to her mom for about 2 hours. Sometimes, when I call my family on the other side of the country (once a week), I talk for HOURS at a time.  This is on top of the fact that these are our only phones and we use them for all communication.  The amount of use we get out of these for $35 a month makes them extremely reasonable.

It's not really the bad deal you all are thinking it is. 

In Sweden there are companies that actually pay you by the minute for every recieved phonecall.