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Pay for incoming calls - not for outgoing?
Two extracts from an article in today's FT - suggesting there may be a change in the way we pay for calls - from paying for the calls we make - to paying for the calls we receive.
Anyone else feel :eek:
Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, is aiming to cut the wholesale charges mobile operators charge each other, having been warned that the result may be that customers are charged to receive calls.
That would mean billing customers for incoming calls, as in the US, China and Singapore. If so, all the better: total charges will still be kept in check by competition, and competition should work better when mobile customers are paying attention to incoming prices. That is the theory, at least, and the evidence points in the same direction: academic research suggests that in countries where both receivers and callers contribute to the cost of a call, total charges are much lower and people use their mobiles a lot more.
Full article here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a2221da-3bce-11dd-9cb2-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Anyone else feel :eek:
Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, is aiming to cut the wholesale charges mobile operators charge each other, having been warned that the result may be that customers are charged to receive calls.
That would mean billing customers for incoming calls, as in the US, China and Singapore. If so, all the better: total charges will still be kept in check by competition, and competition should work better when mobile customers are paying attention to incoming prices. That is the theory, at least, and the evidence points in the same direction: academic research suggests that in countries where both receivers and callers contribute to the cost of a call, total charges are much lower and people use their mobiles a lot more.
Full article here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a2221da-3bce-11dd-9cb2-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
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No, that's not what it says - it says paying for both halves. This would mean, for example, that it would cost the same to phone a mobile from a landline as to phone another landline.0
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Well, it is still on about paying for answering incoming calls
"mobile phone users having to pay charges for accepting calls"
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/205707/eu-mulls-incoming-call-charges.html
If its the US system then instead of having 07xxx numbers we'd have area codes for where we live. So it would cost the caller the same whether they phone a mobile or a landline - whether this be from a mobile or landline. Some mobile users have x-network minutes, but this would mean no one is charged more for going off-net.
It can be analogous to going abroad - if you go abroad, the caller pays the same as if you're still in the UK, and you pay to receive, so essentially paying for the "overseas leg" of the call. Under this system the caller pays as if you are on a landline and you pay the "mobile leg" when you receive.
I don't like this idea - would you also pay if someone left you a voicemail too??0 -
How about no?
What about telemarketing companies? YOu have to pay while they try and sell you stuff.
What about people calling from premium rate numbers in the same style s the unsolicited reverse charges texts that seem to be going round?
How about people who withhold caller ID?
If I want to ring someone I should expect to pay and I should be able to recognise how much I will pay from the phone number that I am calling.
Is this the EU's bright idea? Just when I thought they couldn't get more stupid....*I reserve the right to have an opinion, the right to change this opinion and the right to be wrong.*Hope that helps. If you find this post useful, please feel free to hit the V V V V V V 'Thanks' button below0
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