There might be some isolated pockets (any New Yorkers here wanna chime in?) that retained metered local calling, but this country, as a whole, has unmetered local calling. (Most phone companies also offer cheaper plans for land lines that include a limited number of local calls, rather than unlimited, but they're still of unlimited call duration.)

Yes, unlimited mobile phone plans exist, too, but they're on the rare side.

I saw an interesting one the other day: some little town in Kansas set up a local mobile phone system. $40 a month for unlimited local calls. The idea is to offer locals what amounts to a wireless phone that can be used as if it were a landline.

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