HOW MUCH WOULD IT REALLY COST ET: THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL TO PHONE HOME?

ET Phone Home Cost Calculator

You will never complain about the cost of a phone call home again.

International call charges have long caused frustration for both customers and businesses, especially when calling across countries—or, in this case, across galaxies.

This interactive tool explores a fun question:
How much would it actually cost E.T. to phone home if he were charged real-world international call rates?

Using historical international calling data (based on AT&T carrier rates), we’ve estimated the cost of E.T.’s famous interplanetary call and turned it into an interactive breakdown of what that journey would look like in today’s terms.

If you want to get an idea of the scale of our task, take a journey through space with our fully interactive space travel graphic which can be found here.