Question About United Mobile And Cbw

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by dg7feq

Adding some more info to the very detailed post from Matha531:

1) If you use the 1800 number from a US payphone you pay a connection fee of 55ct.

2) calls via the 1800 (and all other 800) numbers are billed by minutes, not by 6 seconds

3) the toll free no for canada is 1-800-378-8403 (Its not written on the website but i got this info from the support as we used it in Canada recently). The rate is 18 cents a minute + plus destination leg.

Chris

Hi Chris...

Take a look at this copied from my cbw billing report from 13 July

18004713237 01142366300xxxx Liechtenstein - Spec 8.60 1.20

An 8 minute call from the USA via the 800 number to my UM sim...an 8 minute call at 14?/minute would be $1.12...a 9 minute call would be $1.26...the fact I was billed $1.20 means the 6/10 of a minute (which is 36 seconds) would be 8.4 cents so $1.20 would be consistant with 6 second billing interval so I guess you do get the 6 second billing interval for calls made via the US 800 number. (Calls made via the other toll free numbers are much more expensive and may not be billed in 6 second intervals).

Thank you for the help for Canadian users.

As far as being charged for making 800 calls on US public phones, that is relatively new and the owner of the pay phone is free to set whatever price he wants for such calls!