And text messages.

It was very shocking to me how many minutes cell phone plans had in the US when I moved there (it was ... a while ago) compared to France.

But also: in the US, calling someone on their cell cost the same as calling someone on a land line. In France, calling someone on their cell from a land line was something like 4x more per minute.

Really, the structure of phone costs (both land and cell) in the US was quite different.

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hdgvhicv 3 days ago | parent [-]

In the 90s local calls and thus Internet was free in America, where in the U.K. it cost upto £5 an hour (in today’s money) to be online.

	▲	rkomorn 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. France was similar to the UK. I spent years online between 10pm and 6am to use our dialup at the off-hours cost (which wasn't free, but significantly cheaper). Not the good old days of spending money to browse the internet at 28.8kbps.