"Gareth" <hotmail.com@dgareth_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:48125d33$0$32041$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk...
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> "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
> news:fuq2su$rag$1@news.albasani.net...
>> "Unimobiles.com" <sales@unimobiles.com> wrote in message
>> news:22379442-d3a0-4a68-bb3a-9a52097eaa3d@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> Three are now charging all calls a minimum of 1 MINUTE for their
>>> contract customers. So a short call of a few seconds that went through
>>> to answerphone results in a full minute being deducted from inclusive
>>> minutes, or a charge of a full 1 minute from excluded calls.
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>> Word is all the networks are looking at slipping in an increase on
>> minimum call charge to compensate their forced decrease in Roaming rates
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>> AFAIK Voda are upping theirs next month
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> Virgin too.
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> The interesting thing about this is that it is presented, in Virgin's
> case, as them "coming in to line" with other operators. What happened to
> the concept of competition?!

Hopefully the OFT will look into this, as it smacks of the networks getting
together on this and price fixing.