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Article #280Re: (Pre-pay) mobiles for UK / Australia?
From: Nick Jeffery
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:00
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Mr. Michael J. Ellis wrote in message <387debe6_3@nexus.comcen.com.au>... >> >Calls to the UK are 45 cents per min. >GSM infrastructure is expensive and constantly expanding. You also need to >take into consideration that the handset subsidy on a contract phone is a >function of the call costs as well. When the poster claimed "Calls to the UK are 45 cents per minute", I presumed this was from the same mobile telephone that would charge 90 cents (or what ever the figure was) to make a national call. I was not questioning the mobile part of things - I was questioning that it's cheaper to call England than it is to make a national call in Australia. But if I was wrong, then re-read the first sentence of this paragraph. n.
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