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Article #326Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'
From: Steve Pope
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:58
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:58
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Bill Z. <nobody@nospam.pacbell.net> wrote: >Roy <aa4re@aa4re.ampr.org> writes: >> I like the European cell phone model. The caller pays the for the call. >I suspect the reason our cell phone companies don't like it is that >forcing people to pay for incoming calls makes the service seem >cheaper to the person making the call, which increases the companies' >revenue stream. Yes, I think that's mostly it -- other things being equal, "minutes" sell for twice as much in Europe, since they include both sender and receiver air minutes. The carriers clean up when you call a landline from a cell. This has a side benefit that there are still more payphones and international-call centers in Europe cities -- nobody wants to use a cell (at typically 20 cents/minute) to call from a European city to a landline in Pakistan. Those call centers are ridiculously cheap -- it cost me about 6 euro cents to make a 2-minute call from Spain to the U.S. from one. Steve
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