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Originally Posted by bbob
Yackie I understand your point of view and that you have to make money, but.
You say than on your rate of $0.29 per minute you don't make any money. Why is it that other companies can offer a lower rate to
iceland mobile or are these companies loosing money on these rates ?
Also I gave an example (Andy did) about sms callback other companies offer. This means that not you are paying we sms cost but the user, we are paying the sms cost but the calling rates are a lot lower that.
But there will always be users like here on the forum that are looking for a lower cost solution and are using this. I can only assume for you that this is a very small % of your customers so your normal customers are apying the bills and that's were you make money.
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Hi bbob,
I'm not sure if I understand correctly, the $0.29 is for incoming calls on your DID whilst roaming, that doesn't have anything to do with the Icelandic free incoming number.
While it's true that if you use your own callback, you pay the SMS, the example I gave was how the operator makes 20c, which is far below what the operator needs to cover costs.
It's quite simple really, every time you make a call and use your own callback solution to do so, you are depriving your operator of needed revenue, it's of course up to you whether you do so, but at the same time it isn't fair to use the $0.29 as a base price for calculating what other calls should cost.
Please don't compare GSM roaming to VOIP, it really is simply not the same thing.