How Can You Charge This Much For A Phone Call In MI Remember when cell phone's started to be a thing when they first came out? I recall paying as much as $375.00 a month in the '90s because you paid by the minute and it was a lot more during the day and cheaper to use in the evenings and on weekends. Even your house phone was expensive 20 years ago. I lived in Philly then and was dating a girl in LA and one night we talked for 6 hours, my bill that month was around $500 bucks from a landline. Found out later I was on the wrong plan. Yikes