! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
I just looked up Orange’s international calling rates to see how much my 20 minute phone call to the Netherlands cost earlier.
Two questions:
Why is it cheaper (30p/min) to call the USA than it is to ring the Netherlands (45p/min) and why is it cheaper (25p/min) to ring of a pay as you go mobile?
I wish I’d checked BT’s prices before I rang though, they only charge 10p/min!
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I got caught out on this last year… called a friend on another network for less than 20 mins and it cost me more than £40. I have been keeping a check on the rip off prices ever since!!!
Am i saying heretical things when I mumble that, ‘This is the sort of the the EU does well, investigating crap like this?’
I will now and go and hide under my bed
Yes you are! The Office of Fair Trading and/or OFTEL should have taken the mobile operators to task themselves before now.
But because it is abroad OFT & OFTEL have no power?
It’s the mobile operators here that are hiking up the prices. It costs a few pence to Orange but they charge an extortionate amount. Especially when you consider that Orange has a presence in pretty much every country in Europe. What foreign operators charge their own customers is their business.
Yes, but Orange ‘Holland’ can charge Orange ‘UK’ what ever they like and no one can complain, least of all them, it just shimmies money away from Uk to a more favourable tax climate.