Cell Phones in Great Britain - Re: Right of mobile phone companies to pass on third party charges

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Re: Right of mobile phone companies to pass on third party charges

Graham Murray

2008-01-26, 12:33 pm

"tim (not at home)" <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> "Graham Murray" <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote in message
>
> If it was, then the whole mobile business model would be broken.

Why? The vast majority of charges for mobile phones arise from voice
calls/SMSs/WAP/GPRS made from the customer's handset. Surely third party
charges are only in a minority, and the mobile business model (though
not of the ringtone etc suppliers) could survive without reverse
charging.

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