On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:15:42 -0600, Dennis Ferguson
<dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote:


>
>None of this was my point, however. My point was that I don't believe
>national roaming reduces competition between operators at all. It certainly
>doesn't in the USA. You don't make money where you don't have towers
>with or without national roaming, so the incentive to expand coverage
>exists independent of that. It's just that with national roaming, in
>areas you haven't got around to yet or which have too few people to
>support more than the carriers already present, your customers still
>get service. Without it, your customers are out of luck.
>

And I imagine there would be a relatively good take up in the UK
especially for those in remote or poor coverage areas (either living
or travelling) with the first operator that offered a UK roaming
scheme.


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AnthonyL