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Re: [LUG] ISPs



> 
> > This is also why Eurobell can offer free calls to other Eurobell
> > subscribers, but not to BT subscribers, if there was no fee the
> > cable companies would have offered unmetered national calls a
> > long time ago. They haven't as they open themselves up to a per
> > minute usage charge, but fixed income, a position no business
> > wants.
> 
> Even though Eurobell Internet do have 01392 (and an 01293)
> dialup numbers these are not free from any Eurobell lines.
> 
> Also they have taken the marketing decision to only offer the
> free calls from residential lines at certain times. 
> 
> > The reason for using 0845 numbers is to avoid long distance
> > charges, not to alter the way all UK phone calls were billed
> 
> In some cases an 0845 number can end up more expensive to call
> than the other end of the country.
> 

Particularly with mobile companies, that (presumably) do their own long distance routing, at a cheaper rate than the 0845 supplier. I guess it would cost too much for them to work out and appropiatly bill a mobile phone on a regional setting, especially when if you are talking for an hour on a phone you can go 100 miles (train, speeding), and be in completely differnt local/regional zones en-route.

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