Don't you feel it's unfair to be charged by two banks for using one ATM?  Would you ever pay for the gas someone else used to come to your house?  Then why allow companies like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint or even progressively minded Credo to take credit away from your minutes and messages just because someone else contacted you?

In many countries around the world, it is illegal for cell phone companies to charge customers for unsolicited calls and messages.  Yet in the United States, some customers must constantly worry about overages if they receive too many messages or a call that goes long.  This practice effectively amounts to double-dipping on the part of the cell phone companies since they can charge both the initiating and receiving customers for the same call or message.

The concept is simple. If you call someone or send a message, you should be charged for those minutes or that message - fair enough.  But companies should not be allowed to charge the person you're calling or messaging as well.  It's wrong and it's behind the times.  Time to tell them enough double-dipping.