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DRNewcomb · 19-04-2006, 22:20

It's simple. Wholesale roaming rates are dirt cheap, pennies. Most countries charge a hefty surcharge to call a wireless phone (e.g. 25c/min). Wherever country X's wholesale roaming rate is less than country Y's surcharge, there's an opportunity to make money. So you take a tiny country, like Liechtenstein, It can be covered with two cell sites, few customers to pay for those two sites but a huge opportunity to make money as a roaming operator.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	19-04-2006, 22:20 It's simple. Wholesale roaming rates are dirt cheap, pennies. Most countries charge a hefty surcharge to call a wireless phone (e.g. 25c/min). Wherever country X's wholesale roaming rate is less than country Y's surcharge, there's an opportunity to make money. So you take a tiny country, like Liechtenstein, It can be covered with two cell sites, few customers to pay for those two sites but a huge opportunity to make money as a roaming operator.