On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:30:00AM +0000, Roland Perry wrote:

I often feel that people have been lulled into a sense of false security
by so many "bundled minutes" plans on mobiles (and fixed line phones
have them too these days). The underlying cost of mobile calls is *much*
greater than landline ones, that's just something we have to live with.

But there's no reason why calls to 080 numbers can't at least be
included in bundled minutes, aside from profiteering on the part of the
mobile phone company. I don't see any reason why calls to 0845 numbers
can't be included either, perhaps with a multiplier so that each minute
of call "costs" 2 bundled minutes, or whatever, if the costs involved
really are so much higher than calls to, for example, other networks'
mobiles (which *are* included in bundled minutes). Again, that I have
to pay eleventy squillion pence a minute looks like profiteering, on
both the part of the mobile phone companies and TfL.

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