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Cost to call UK v US mobiles
I have always wondered why I can call US mobiles for FREE from my skype/VOIP cheap/landline even!! Where as UK mobiles is anything upto 50p a minute. why is this?
Do the UK networks have some sort of cartel or something? I mean a mobile is a mobile and US ones are 3-6000 miles away and UK ones are max 400 miles away LOL. Another UK ripoff or is there a reason for this? |
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In a Word its all about TERMINATION CHARGES
US Mobiles have local numbers and not special numbers like here in the UK (IE all UK Mobile Numbers Start 07XXX etc etc) Where as in the UK the caller pays a preium to call a mobile number(though I am aware that many contract phones include minutes to other mobiles) in the USA you do not pay a preium, it costs you the same to call a mobile as it does a standard land line. This is why Skype etc can include US mobile numvers at such a low rate HOWEVER: In the US you pay to receive as well as make calls on your mobile. So wrong numbers are sales calls become a big issue when you are paying to receive the call. I belive this way of termination charges is unique to North America and as you can imagin is quite contraversal to those that live out side this area. Hope this clarifyies things for you Jaydun |
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Originally Posted by jaydun68
I belive this way of termination charges is unique to North America and as you can imagin is quite contraversal to those that live out side this area.
Hope this clarifyies things for you Jaydun There are a couple of other countries too where this happens, but forget where. This is the reason why mobiles were very slow to take off in the USA and why they were slow to improve coverage. OFCOM was considering allowing the same to happen in the UK, it's not a system I'd want, I'm happy with the current system. |
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Thanks for that guys, so we are not getting a bum deal after all.
Now about SMS texts being charged at upto 12 pence each, surely thats a ripoff!! |
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ar i didnt know that, interesting, so really the UK has a better system then the yanks? Well theres got to be a first for everything i guess
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Originally Posted by nafanny29
Thanks for that guys, so we are not getting a bum deal after all.
Now about SMS texts being charged at upto 12 pence each, surely thats a ripoff!! I pay 5p to send text messages to UK phones, though I also get free texts to Virgin mobiles until Sept. (I use more than one provider). For international mobiles I pay 5c (Euro-cents) per message. You need to vote with your feet, until people do, you will continue to be ripped off. |
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ar i didnt know that, interesting, so really the UK has a better system then the yanks? Well theres got to be a first for everything i guess
But this isn't unusual ,the USA is often on the worse end when it comes to technology / system. We can have a mobile phone and not make any calls, just receive them and it costs us nothing. In the USA/Canada you have a mobile phone, never make any calls, yet it costs you around 10c/min to receive calls. Though to call a mobile it costs the same as a landline, as you the caller aren't paying the higher termination costs, but the callee is. |
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Originally Posted by nafanny29
Thanks for that guys, so we are not getting a bum deal after all.
Now about SMS texts being charged at upto 12 pence each, surely thats a ripoff!! Please feel free to expand on that anyone. |
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In strict data terms, if you were charged as much for a voice call as you were charged for the data in a text message, a voice call would cost £54 per minute.
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