OT - Cellphone billing

[R.T.]

On a related note, for those who haven't seen it yet:
http://www.slideshare.net/thomas.purves/the-state-of-wireless-in-canada-sucks-toronto-democamp17-thomas-purves?src=embed
( http://wirelessnorth.ca/?p=76 )

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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