United-Mobile Update

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Originally Posted by snaimon

[his precis of quoted link]

The reason for the price hike could come from among others UM's extremely low rates for roaming. Incoming calls were free even though the rates offered (for outbound-inbound mix) was only marginally more than the outbound-inbound mix calculation. Connections to Jersey cards were available at prices similar to landlines. The best call-by-call operator is asking 1 cent rates to British landlines and 10 cents to British mobiles. The rate UM pays for that internconnect is unknown. ... UM customers who only received calls or used external callbacks were hardly profitable for UM.

I'd be interested to hear about calling a Jersey mobile at the same price as a landline. From a BT landline in UK the rate is ~29 pence a minute, and other providers worldwide have higher rates to this range than other +447, which doesn't quite support the idea of UM's difficulties arising solely from a share of low incoming rates. Perhaps one or two questions should be addressed to the call-by-call operator ...