Alan Day wrote.....
> BT has 84% market share and charges all "interconnect" charges by the
> minute. ie if a cable & wireless customer phones you, BT charge cable &
> wireless by the minute - therefore per minute charging filters down to
> ALL consumers no matter the supplier since BT has 84%. In the US
> operators pay x amount for x amount of bandwidth.
If you were calling an ISP who used BT, then yes.
However, the ideal situation would be one in which your ISP used the
same local phone company as yourself. Therefore, the phone company
wouldn't get charged by BT for any part of the call, so it would be
entirely the perogative of your local phone company what they charged
you.
Actually, that's the exact situation I've got here (lucky me!).
And when I first signed up for the internet, the Cable Corporation
(for it is they who operate my phone line) were giving free
cable-to-cable calls, albeit only at weekends. I loved it.
And then two months after I signed up, just when I was hooked, they
scrapped that option.
Shame, eh?
Well, it's still miles cheaper than BT, so I mustn't complain /too/
much. ;-)
Best regards,
Simon Champion.
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