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Originally Posted by horndoctor
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Directly after the phone vibrates and it says "connected" on the screen.
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That's it right there. In analog land a call is not connected until the other end is actually picked up. In cellular land connected means when you actually start ringing the other person's phone because cellular charges are for actual network use and that begins the moment you press the Send key. When you look at each phone call on your cellular bill, the minutes you are billed for also include however long it took for that person you called to answer. On an analog phone bill you are charged only for the time after the phone is picked up. If you call someone on an analog line and it rings for 3 minutes and you talk for one, you are billed only for a 1 minute call. On a cellular phone, you just used up 4 minutes of your monthly call time allotment because you were actually on the network for that period of time.