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Re: landline, VOIP and ADSL query

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:55
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Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote

>>>>>> I dont make enough calls for that to ever pay for itself.
>>>>>> The absolute vast bulk of calls I make are local or
>>>>>> 1300/1800 calls. It would be handy to be able to have
>>>>>> cheap calls to mobiles, but none of the major voips have that.

>>>>> Because they want the cream

>>>> Nope, because no one has tried competing in that area yet.

>>> ???

>> !!!!!!!!

>>> Why wouldnt they try,

>> Because it costs them a lot more to call those numbers.

>>> its just a different form of long distance minutes

>> A much more expensive form.

>>> They dont compete because they need that cream to prop up the rest

>> Nope, they dont compete because those calls cost them much more.

> No,

Fraid so.

> they deliberately dont compete in that area, so that the cream is not skimmed away

Mindlessly silly when there is no 'cream', just much higher costs for them.

>>> Even wonder why calls to UK are 2c/min (etc) while F2M is 30c a min?

>> Because it costs them a lot more to do the calls to mobiles, stupid.

> No, its because there is no competition there.

Thats the reason for the much higher costs, you silly little dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

> Calls to the UK used to be >30c a minute not that long ago, roddles

Irrelevant to what they are now, you silly little dunny cleaning fuckwit child.
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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: landline, VOIP and ADSL query
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