[Cthulhu_]

It does too in Europe, at least, when calling internationally to cell phones; the caller pays up until the border, the cell phone owner pays after that. This has led to a lot of cases of OMFG WTF when people come back home after a vacation and get their phone bill, :p.

[estel]

This pay structure makes sense to me. If I'm calling someone's mobile and don't necessarily expect them to be in another country: it would be crazy to be slapped with a massive charge for that call. Makes far more sense for the receiver to make up the difference.

[rmc]

Which is why in EU there's a law that phone companies have to cut you off after you spend €60 in a month while roaming. You can opt out of that, but legally you have to be in that by default. It's to stop people getting screwed over massively by their phone companies when they didn't know.