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>Ed wrote in message
>news:8b3484b4.0410091342.103d143d@posting.google.com...
>> As a long time 18866 user I phoned the USA tonight expecting to be
>> told it was 1p a minute. Instead I got the message that it was 2p a
>> minute, and the same when I called a mobile in the States.
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>> Checked the website and it said 2p for landlines in the States and the
>> box was blank for mobiles.
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>> Is this the beginning of the end for unbelievably cheap phonecalls on
>> 18866? I know that you can get 1/2p a minute to US landlines with
>> 1899 but I think the companies are related so is that going to come to
>> an end too? 1/2p a minute must be well below cost.
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>I think the prices will go up and down often, as they buy in bulk the
>capicity, now if the available capicity to buy in is lower, then the cost will
>be higher.
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