SaverSim and Wizz

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Originally Posted by snidely

Reply to Andy's post above -
I enjoy this (and other forums) to learn and share ideas.
Thanks for reminding me that a lot of countries impose HIGH taxes on incoming intl. phone calls. I forgot that.
I had assumed that since virtually every LD carrier charges at least 20 cents to call most overseas mobiles (the UK is a few cents more than most of Europe) that the carrier handling the incoming call imposed the charge. These same carries charge 3-5 cents to call a landline - so this is a reasonable assumption. The fact LD carriers world wide all charge very HIGH fees to call +372 and +423 numbers would indicate that it is the carriers on the receiving end collecting the money.
What does it cost you, from a landline, to call a mobile in France or Germany?
My main point was that IOM termination is slightly higher than main UK numbers. Whatever amount that may be - wouldn't it be fair for the IOM carrier to share some of that money w. the resellers of their service?

...mike

In regard to Uk mobiles I think that there is not a certain ammount everyone is paying for calls terminating to certain prefixes. For example calls to Jersey mobiles are higher even within the Uk (07937 prefix). Also calls to 07924, 07937 numbers are higher from abroad in many cases (not all of course). In Greece the Greek Telecom organization is charging 0,70 euros/min to terminate to those prefixes (whereas for o2 charges 0,3/min). When I have oficially (in written form) asked them about this they have answered that this is due to higher termination rates imposed on them by the British networks. So I assume this charges have to do with specific routing being used
Not to mention +423663 numbers. The Greek telecom organisation charges 2 euros/min to connect to those!!