What costs more to the telco to provide - local landline or any mobile calls?

A number of years ago the ACCC (or whatever form it was in at the time) declared
that Telstra/Telecom (I forget which) was overcharging on STD calls when it
determined that the cost of an STD call to the company was significantly less
than what it was charging customers.

Nothing happened about it, of course.

When mobile phone services were introduced all calls were timed and at
significantly higher rates than what landline based long distance calls were
made at.

These days the gap between mobile and LD calls has increased a fair bit.

The question that I'm asking is, what does it cost Telstra to set up, operate
and maintain the cellular network and compared to what it costs for the landline
network?

Same for the transmission of data services, too, which as we're aware of, the
costs of which are astronomical, particularly compared to a basic DSL service?



--
Handle every situation like a dog would. If you can't eat it or hump it, then piss on it and walk away..

Marts wrote:

> A number of years ago the ACCC (or whatever form it was in at the
> time) declared that Telstra/Telecom (I forget which) was overcharging
> on STD calls when it determined that the cost of an STD call to the
> company was significantly less than what it was charging customers.

Thats always been mindlessly superficial when it costs the telco
nothing to make an extra call, not even a tiny bit more electricity etc.

> Nothing happened about it, of course.

We did however see a big drop in the cost of STD calls with competition.

> When mobile phone services were introduced all calls were timed and at
> significantly higher rates than what landline based long distance
> calls were made at.

Hardly suprising given that someone has to pay for the mobile infrastructure.

> These days the gap between mobile and LD calls has increased a fair bit.

Thats is a bare faced lie.

> The question that I'm asking is, what does it cost Telstra to set up,
> operate and maintain the cellular network and compared to what it
> costs for the landline network?

None of them break that out explicitly.

You cant even just consider the operations like Voda that only have mobile services.

> Same for the transmission of data services, too, which as we're aware of, the
> costs of which are astronomical, particularly compared to a basic DSL service?

That last is a bare faced pig ignorant lie.