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Re: America the Worst For Cell Rates and Plans

Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
26 Jan 2005 19:59:14 -0500

John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

>> America has the worst mobile telephone calling rates and plans in the
>> world. For example nowhere in the world do you pay or are deducted
>> minutes for recieving calls its just unheard of.

> America has the best mobile telephone calling rates and plans in the
> world, except maybe for Canada.

Both of these statements are true. And what is most amazing is that
mobile providers are not allowed to eliminate any calling plans as
long as they have at least one customer still on them. As a result, a
lot of mobile providers have huge numbers of different plans active,
some with only a handful of customers, and the vast majority of which
are not taking new customers on.

The sheer range of different rates being billed by any one provider is
amazing, and it has resulted in the most Rube Goldberian billing
systems imaginable.

--scott

"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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