MSE News: Landline to mobile call costs could fall

jamesd

Nor much of one in paying whatever exorbitant rate the phone company wants you to pay to call the mobile number you've been given. It's not as if you can go and look at SayNoToRipOffMobileCompanies when you're not the person who has the mobile contract.

The reason the mobile companies don't like these changes is that today they are charging callers premium rates and using those to pay for services that they are providing to the person who is being called. That's not something that should be happening, it's an abuse of callers to have them subsidise the phone deal of the person being called. The remedy is to eliminate the termination charges or have the person with the mobile pay their costs, not the caller.

I don't know about you but I don't get a lot of wrong numbers calling my mobile.

I agree about it being nice not to pay for a call you didn't want. That's where airtime minutes package or reporting a call as a marketing call can come in. Just oblige the phone company not to charge when it's reported as a marketing call and let them cancel the contracts of anyone who abuses those reports.

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MSE_Helen wrote: »

This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:

"Home phone users could be able to call mobiles for less following a ruling made this week on charges

BT charges nearly 25 pence to call a mobile phone for a minute

If they cut a penny or so off that, how many people would actually notice?

Mind you, they charge about 21 pence for one minute to a landline ...

Phones4Chris

jamesd I wouldn't want to have to waste my time challenging a Telco as to whether a particular call was marketing one and so I shouldn't be paying for it.
Also no-one forces anyone to call a mobile - if you don't want to call a mobile number because of cost, then don't, simples!
But apart from which there a number of very cheap PAYG mobile deals about where you can call mobiles and landlines for 8p/min (no connection fee) - that's a damn site cheaper than a landline in most cases unless you use a service like 18185 where it's 6p/min to a mobile weekday, 7p/min w/e.
The American system just isn't worth the hastle or the cost.