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Tube Wifi
In message , at 12:56:44
on Wed, 27 Jun 2012, David Cantrell remarked: Yes, but I expect it costs them more to redirect a geographic like that. Depends on the number. It would be cheaper (for the recipient) to have a geographic number going to the "wrong" place than to have an 0800 number, Isn't the alternative here an 0845? I forget exactly what the rates were, and I know that revenue sharing has changed a bit since. Wikipedia says that revenue share only exists on 0844 these days, not 0845. Revenue share gets a bad press, but isn't the sole reason for the extra cost of non-geographic numbers, or indeed involved in the cost of "out of area" geographic numbers that you mentioned a few turns upthread. I suspect OFCOM is trying to get the price of 0845 to be genuinely the same as a local call, in which case the issue shifts to whether 0845 is counted in local call *bundles*. It's a game of whack-a-mole, and all it ever does is shift the earning potential from one entry on the pricelist to another (as we've seen with mobiles over the last year or two). -- Roland Perry |
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