Do they start deducting minutes while your phone rings?!
because i swear i hard about this and it pisses me off. i heard that even though i could reject the call or not answer it, im still being charged airtime. WTF?! i end my work shift with many missed calls and its terrible to know that i was charged minutes for them. CAN ANYONE CLARIFY PLEASE? And are the other carriers any different? cuz this right here is a deal breaker
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Read your terms and conditions... It must say it there. All these things are listed on there. It doesn't make sense, nor it sounds fair. But I do know that answer to all these type of questions is in your T&Cs.
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cingular does. a guy wanted his ring to last longer and a care rep told me anything longer than 30 seconds will charge a minute.
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99.9 percent of customers ....... no. they do not get charged for missed calls since the ring time is defaulted to something like 16 or 18 seconds. if someone calls in and gets it extened its possible but i have never heard of someone setting a ring time that long. an easy way to check..... look at your bill maybe? get a printout of your calls and look. i am 100 percent sure you will not find a minute of your plan used for a missed call. hope that answers your ?.
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I dont think he was talking about missed calls, Im pretty sure he meant that if he called somebody and their phone rang and they didnt answer, he would be charged after 30 seconds of ringing, for instance if he called somebody and they werent home and there was no answering machine
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NO, he said MISSED CALLS! Of course if you call someone, no matter if it just rings or they answer, you get charged!
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when u press send and the phone connects to the switch it is charged to your account. but i thought i read the ? as if you had a missed call were those times charged against you? maybe i read it wrong.
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Now that I went back and re read it I think I mis understood what he was asking, you guys are right, my bad
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o ok i mean im not even tripping if all carriers do that... i mean i just thought it was jsut a thing that verizon does to screw their costumers.
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cingualer does not do this has i have a ton of missed calls and they are ne=ver on my bills
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As far as I know they do, they all use to start after 60 seconds but then they all changed it to 30 seconds 5-6 years ago
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So in other words, you say, yes..they do.
Thats odd..cuz missed calls would ring for more than 30 seconds.
Thats odd..cuz missed calls would ring for more than 30 seconds.
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Albie05 said:
because i swear i hard about this and it pisses me off. i heard that even though i could reject the call or not answer it, im still being charged airtime. WTF?! i end my work shift with many missed calls and its terrible to know that i was charged minutes for them. CAN ANYONE CLARIFY PLEASE? And are the other carriers any different? cuz this right here is a deal breaker
Well I guess you are not meant to own a cell phone then. that's the way all carriers work and have for years.
Don't get a phone if that is something you feel you need to obsess over.
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too many bad answers here. really. and some that were kinda rude. read my posts and in them are the correct answers albie.
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Minutes are charge the moment you press "send" or answer a call. If you let your phone ring and you do not answer the call, it never connected and minutes are not charge. If you call someone and they never answer the call, you are charged the minutes for the time the call tries to connect. I had a guy complain about this and threatened to go to the Attorney General of his state over the time used to listen to someone else's ring.
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o ok i mean really not even tripping if all carriers do that... i mean i just thought it was jsut a thing that verizon does to screw their costumers.
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Albie05 said:
o ok i mean really not even tripping if all carriers do that... i mean i just thought it was jsut a thing that verizon does to screw their costumers.
That is a great attitude and outlook to have...
Negative from the start.
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VZW-
"Charges start when you first press SEND or the call connects to a network on outgoing calls, and when the call connects to a network (which may be before it rings) on incoming calls."
Cingular-
"Unanswered calls of 30 seconds or longer incur airtime."
Sprint/Nextel-
"For voice calls received by your device, you are charged from the time shortly before the phone starts ringing until the call is terminated."
T-Mobile-
"AIRTIME USAGE IS MEASURED FROM THE TIME THE NETWORK BEGINS TO PROCESS THE CALL (BEFORE THE PHONE RINGS OR THE CALL IS ANSWERED) THROUGH ITS TERMINATION OF THE CALL (AFTER YOU HANG UP)."
...that should clear it all up.
"Charges start when you first press SEND or the call connects to a network on outgoing calls, and when the call connects to a network (which may be before it rings) on incoming calls."
Cingular-
"Unanswered calls of 30 seconds or longer incur airtime."
Sprint/Nextel-
"For voice calls received by your device, you are charged from the time shortly before the phone starts ringing until the call is terminated."
T-Mobile-
"AIRTIME USAGE IS MEASURED FROM THE TIME THE NETWORK BEGINS TO PROCESS THE CALL (BEFORE THE PHONE RINGS OR THE CALL IS ANSWERED) THROUGH ITS TERMINATION OF THE CALL (AFTER YOU HANG UP)."
...that should clear it all up.
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but green jeep.whar poster was talking about was if some one calls you and you dont answer your phone. do you get charged air time. i know cingular does this. but does vzw do it.
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