Re: Why does it cost half as much to call the US with Virgin than to call next door?
- From: Petert <peter.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:57:34 +0100
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:42:54 +0100, Alasdair <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I developed a friendship with an American and in the last couple of
months have been texting and phoning her mainly using Skype where the
voice quality was not brilliant or using a phone card I bought at the
local newsagent. which was a bit fiddly with having to put in long
PINs etc.
I called my regular Telco, Virgin Media, and asked what their cheapest
tariff was to the US. They said "pay £1.50 a month for 'Talk
International' and you can call for 2.6ppm." When I got my bill, I
was pleasantly surprised to find that calls to Illinois were 2.6ppm
while calls in the UK cost 4.7ppm. Why are calls covering 5000 miles
cheaper than calls next door? It doesn't make sense.
There is so much capacity across the Atlantic and cct prices are
therefore so low that it is now (allegedly) impossible to measure the
cost of a transatlantic call. The price you pay for calling your
neighbour is so high because Virgin have worked out that they can get
away with such a charge
--
Cheers
Peter
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