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Re: America the Worst For Cell Rates and Plans

Paul Coxwell (paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk)
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:38 -0000

kansaskon <kansasconn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:telecom24.36.1@telecom-digest.org:

> America has the worst mobile telephone calling rates and plans in the
> world. For example nowhere in the world do you pay or are deducted
> minutes for recieving calls its just unheard of.
>

No, but elsewhere in the world the person calling a cellphone ends up
paying a lot more.

Here in the U.K., for example, somebody on BT's basic "Option 1" package
pays a daytime rate of 5.6 cents per minute for a long-distance call to a
regular landline anywhere within the country. A daytime call to a
cellphone runs from 23 to 45 cents/min depending upon the network.

Evening and weekend landline calls are capped at just 10.3 cents for a
call lasting up to an hour. The cellphone rates are 12 to 32
cents/min evening, 6.8 to 14.5 cents/min weekends.

All converted to U.S. currency at current rate of 1.00 GBP = $1.88.

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