Mobile users may pay to receive calls

[Sweetpea]

Mobile phone customers could pay to receive calls as companies seek to protect their profits after being forced to cut other charges.

The European Commission has promised to bring down controversial termination charges – the fee that mobile phone companies charge each other as well as landline companies for connecting calls to their networks.
The charges, on average about 7p for each call, total an estimated £1 billion every year in the UK.
Viviane Reding , the European telecoms commissioner, is due later this month to unveil how she intends to slash these charges to about 1p – a move that has incensed some of the mobile phone giants, who believe her policies are a major threat to their profits.


Mobile phone users may pay to receive calls - Telegraph


I bloody well hope this doesn't happen.

[poppy]

well as I always forget to top my phone up, I wont be getting many calls

[Haqa]

This is an attempt to replicate the backward mobile phone system in use in the USA, because it makes more money, and therefore is able to pay more in frequency licences. Anything done in the USA must be better because, well, it's the USA, stands to reason.... Doesn't it (Sarcasm Bruv...)

To give you an idea how backward they are, they've only had SMS for about a couple of years, and they still think SIM cards are a novelty! They also consider the iPhone a major technological leap forwards!?!

H.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I bloody well hope this doesn't happen.

It WOULD make unwanted spam calls THEFT.

[emmylou]

they can go and f-in well f themselves!!!

[poppy]

paying for spam