[Stu]

How can you tell what companies are financially sound? Some have shown problems, but United Mobile had the superficial trappings of being in good shape. They had had a recent cash infusion from investors, they had a sophisticated infrastructure, they were rolling out new services, and clearly had more than one employee (unlike some of the others). I didn't like it when they started charging the 19 euro cent connection charge, but it made sense to me (looking at the issue from their side).

I have to presume that the most of the members of this forum are their worst customers. While we make a ton of calls, we use every trick in the book to squeeze the price of the call downward (third party callback services, our own international forwarding services, etc). Their financial model has to allow them to be able to tread water if all of their phones receive only inbound calls and the calls are being terminated to their lines by Betamax providers. How much do you think they received in call terminations from these carriers?