Are there any cell phone service providers that do not round up minutes?

Question

My cell bill doubled this month. I have discovered that Sprint rounds up to ther next minute, so if I talk for 61 seconds they charge me for two minutes. They tell me that this is the way "everybody does it". I don't believe them. Who does not round up to the next minute?

Aren't there some who round both directions, I mean, why not round to the nearest minute? Wouldn't that kind of even out at the end of the day?

Answer 1

The Sprint representative did not lie. In the United States, all mobile carriers use 60 second rounding. It's simply not as competitive as the long distance market, where you can find companies offering 6 second rounding.

Answer 2

No soory there aren't. That would be silly for them to give their customer per second or even 5 second timing. They have always done this and since they all do it, we are screwed