Mary Pegg wrote:

> Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>
>
>>Landlines always have a local calling area where calls are uncharged; if
>>the mobile's number is in the landline's local calling area it is
>>uncharged.
>
>
> Is this because the US phone system doesn't or didn't provide the
> flexibility required to have mobile prefixes that work nationally?
>
> Or an intrinsic difference between societies?
>
I would say the latter.

Sheila