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Article #304Re: landline, VOIP and ADSL query
From: Michael
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:15
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:15
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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4q0iuhFkq3t9U1@individual.net... > 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. There is comment one. >> 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. And there is comment 2. Ever thought they were related, Roddles? BECAUSE they dont compete, there is much higher costs. A remarkable example of market collusion >>>> 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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X-Google-Thread: 109f97,3cbeb5408757c39e X-Google-Thread: fc9bd,3cbeb5408757c39e X-Google-Attributes: gid109f97,gidfc9bd,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: aus.net.access,aus.comms References: <44fad142@news.comindico.com.au> <44febcf9$0$26737$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> <4pd3q8Fi1fr5U1@individual.net> <lPRZg.49928$rP1.26216@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <4pqdafFjss6pU1@individual.net> <zW0_g.50254$rP1.3770@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <4psp2uFka82lU1@individual.net> <_XD_g.51029$rP1.14692@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <4q0iuhFkq3t9U1@individual.net> Subject: Re: landline, VOIP and ADSL query Lines: 67 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <hab%g.51853$rP1.19960@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:15:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.228.119.205 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1161641741 60.228.119.205 (Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:15:41 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:15:41 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services