Actually, its exactly that part that has put us behind the rest of the world. Back when cell phones first came out in 1983, the wired phone companies were afraid they would lose their customers to them. So they lobbied the FCC to pass laws that forced cell phone users to pay for all calls, whether incoming or outbound. That radical departure from usual telephone billing automatically doubled an already high bill. That discouraged early deployment of cellular phones.
Incoming calls are free, and outgoing calls cost the same as from a wired phone.
The telephone monopolies continue to successfully resist it here in the U.S. To maintain the appearance of a 'free-market', the FCC allowed only two licensees in each metropolitan area to offer cellular service. The second was allowed to be a newly-licensed outsider. But this effectively failed to provide any real competition, and prices remained high. Only when the FCC did away with the 'duopoly' in 1994, and the number of providers shot up to as many as seven in some areas, did prices begin falling. Another big mistake of the duopoly regulations was limiting the licensees to tiny geographic areas.