Hello Alan
On 07-Jun-99, Alan Day wrote:
>
> BT has 84% market share. If you are a C&W or other cable customer and
> you phone someone then there is an 84% chance that it is a BT customer.
> Now BT charges an interconnect fee to the cable company. In the US,
> Canada, Oz & NZ ect this is usually a fixed sum ie 5 cents. BT charges
> the interconnect fee "per minute" and only sells bandwidth "per minute"
> whereas in US etc bandwidth can be bought in bulk for a fixed fee. All
> this "per minute" charges filters down to all customers whether BT or
> Cable or whatever since Bt has 84% market share.
>
> Just look at the mobile phone market where there is aggressive
> competition and you will see unmetered options for �50/month and offers
> of 25hours free and yet they have considerably less bandwidth compared
> to landlines.
>
I agree that free or fixed charge calls would hurt the "Free" ISP's in the
UK, but then I for one would happily pay �10-15 a month for internet access
if that is all I would pay (it's certainly cheapr than the phone bill I've
just had).
BT does indeed charge all other networks for placing a call to one of their
customers,
as you are using some of their networks resources for supporting your call.
However,
all the networks in the UK charge BT to place a call to their network. It's
just
the way the system works in the UK, although I believe OFTEL can to a certain
extent
regulate these interconnect charges if they believe them to be too high.
Incidentally,
could somebody tell me where I could get unmetered mobile calls for �50/month,
or
25 hours of calls? Orange now offer 50mins of off-peak calls each day for
50pence,
which can be used for data calls, so you could download your email for free
;-)
(albeit at 9.6Kbits/s). Not fast, but the UK mobile networks are all working
on solutions to
increase data rates.
>
Regards
--
Stephen Webber
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Engineer, Orange PCS Ltd
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