TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Start-Up Slashes Cost of International wireless

Re: Start-Up Slashes Cost of International wireless

Joseph (JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com)
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:24:00 -0700

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:27:27 -0600, jared@nospam.au (jared) wrote:

> Calls from wireless (USA) ... calls to wireless in most parts of the world
> attract a charge to the calling party ... substantial though nowhere near
> what the big USA telcos charge (from landline or wireless).

Generally wireless international long distance does not differentiate
between wireless and wireline terminations if only because the
wireless operators generally charge a good deal more than wireline
companies. Where wireline long distance companies might put a cost of
only 5 cents/minute to call from the US to a UK wireline connection
and 30 cents/minute to call a mobile terminated call the wireless
operators will charge 29 cents/minute to call the UK with no
differentiation between terminating to a wireline or wireless
termination. Those who make lots of international calls have learned
to use alternative long distance providers such as Gorilla Mobile
<http://www.gorillamobile.com> or One Suite <http://www.onesuite.com>
where they get much better international rates even to wireless
terminations.

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