[ternaryoperator]

> The telephone companies make money based on minutes of usage.

I don't see how that could be correct. Once you pay your monthly fee, the fewer minutes you tie up the company's resources the better for them. That's true too for pay-ahead plans.

[wasmitnetzen]

Your provider get paid by the caller's provider for taking the call, and the marginal costs of a phone call are close to zero.