OT - Cellphone billing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:37:43AM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> This is what I have found in any other country I have visited beside N
> America.  Communication cost can get really low as just paying the
> minimum fee to retain the number active. And as long as you have some
> money on the phone, the numer is your for an year.

Here it can cost $5 per month to have voice mail service.  There it is
included free in your anual minimum use cost.  Of course voicemail
really costs the company nothing if they already have the equipment so
the $5 per month is pure profit.

> Do you think this will remain true if 802.16e ever establish itself?
> And is anybody other than the 3 old companies getting into 802.16e
> here in Canada? I am very confident 802.16e will be the dorminant
> technology in developing countries, but how it will work in developed
> countries is little hard to figure out.

Perhaps what is needed if you want sensible prices is that you have a
nationwide GSM network and any company that wants to provide service can
use it as long as they pay their share of the maintainance costs of the
network.

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