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Article #57Re: FIDO - analog zone charges that no other company does
From: Sylvain Huot
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
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MB wrote:
>
> Dominic,
>
> What the other gentleman is trying to say is that Clearnet signed an Analog
> Roaming Agreement with Cantel where Clearnet PAYS for the analog time used
> but does not pass the premium charge along to its customers. However, Fido
> signed a similar agreement with Bell Mobility
I heard somewhere that FIDO sells analog airtime at $0.20/min, but pays
for it $0.15/min to Bell / Mobility Canada.
It seems that Clearnet got a better deal when paying $0.11/min to
Cantel, but
got less quality, and must share their $20/month pie. They never know,
month
to month, which part of that pie will go to Cantel. This thing never
appears in
their quaterly reports.
Since they are selling phone in cities that are not covered at all in
digital,
it appears that:
1) They pay %55 of these airtime fees directly to Cantel.
2) They pay a lot of advertizing in these cities, to make Cantel make
money.
3) They compromise their own reputation, because the name of the service
is 'Clearnet', but the (bad) quality is 'Cantel'. (They make a Clearnet
phone
behave as a Cantel one).
Bye!
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