The great mobile phone rip off

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INBScbagger

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I Was just having a look through the Vodafone website and have discoverd that it now costs 5c to ring a mobile or a landline in China and 9c to Eastern Europe from a prepay phone. This is probably a response to the likes of Swiftcall,First National,Centurary etc calling cards plus the proliferation of call shops in all the population centres. It shows the ripoff that the mobile phone companies are inflicting on us.How can a call from the same phone to a land line in Ireland be ten times more expensive than to China bearing in mind that Vodafone are paying Eircom an interconnect rate of less than 1 cent.

http://www.vodafone.ie/readytogo/tariffs/standard/index.jsp

Home is never far away with Vodafone

You can now call home at new reduced international rates. These rates apply to Poland, Latvia, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia and China.
Great new rates for calls to Europe

You can call home as often as you like, whenever you like, with Vodafone Pre pay. Rates apply automatically from 1 May 2006 until 28 February 2007 and are exclusive to Vodafone Pre pay.
  • Call home to a landline for just 9c a minute
  • Call home to a mobile for just 25c a minute
  • Text home for just 15c
  • Anytime, any day
  • Call from your Pre pay mobile with no hidden charges
Great new rates for calls to China

You can call mobiles or landlines at any time, on any day and still pay this same great rate. Rates apply automatically from 1 May 2006 until 28 February 2007 and are exclusive to Vodafone Pre pay.
  • Call Chinese mobiles or landlines for just 5c a minute
  • Text China for just 15c
  • Anytime, any day
  • Call from your Pre pay mobile with no hidden charges
Terms and conditions apply.
 
Once again - not a rip off if they detail the charges in their tariff schedules so that consumers can apprise themselves of these details and make an informed decision whether or not to pay them even if these charges are higher than those available elsewhere and some people are still prepared to pay them possibly without checking in advance.
 

Sorry, off topic I know, so you don't like punctuation then?

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showpost.php?p=210568&postcount=18
 
As the 'provider' of my wife and three teenagers' mobile phone credit, I regularly exhort them to make savings by applying the under-rated 'STFU principle'.

I know mobile costs are relatively high in this country, but there are higher — Spain, for example (and perhaps surprisingly). The other (and perhaps the main) reason mobile phone companies rack up such extraordinarily high profits in Ireland is because, well, we just talk too much.

That latest Vodafone ad where wifey rings hubby to say she's on the bus home, and there's no seat free... then again to say 'Got one now'? People do that all the time, for God's sake — on 'free minutes' or not!

Out with the 3Gs, and back with the Bee Gees, that's what I say!
 
I agree - I wonder what percentage of all text messages sent consist of the word "OK". Most of my wife's for a start!
 
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