Fed up of paying to much to call mobiles phones from landlines or fed up of paying up to 40 or even 50p per minute to call someone on another mobile network?
If so, then sign the petition led by 3 and BT as well as a few other organisations.
www.terminatetherate.org
3 has planned that if termination rates where scrapped,then they could offer tariffs that could offer unlimited calls to landlines and any UK mobile phones for around £35 per minute to begin.
The funny thing about this though, wasn't it BT that introduced them in the first place??? Since BT and Vodafone where the first to launch wireless/mobile phone services in the UK with Cellnet and Vodafone?
And isn't it 3 that charges the highest termination rates out of all the UK networks?
I suppose they will all have to scrap the charges at the same time in order for it to work.
And what a rip off during 1999/2000, Orange at one point was part of the Vodafone group,so Vodafone was charging premium rates for calling a mobile on another network which was part of the same company.
And BT charging the full landline-to-mobile rate for calling Cellnet and Genie mobiles between 1999 and 2001. Even though they where all in house. Cellnet and Genie before 1999 was a joint venture between BT and Securicor.
Same with Mercury/Cable and Wireless. Between 1993 and 1999 One2one was partly owned by Cable and Wireless and one of Telewest's major shareholders US West now Qwest. The cost of calling one2one phones during this time from Cable and Mercury lines costed up to 30p per minute.
Nevertheless it will be great to see these costs go!