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The point is not margin on roaming, it's overall corporate profit margin. If roaming is cheaper, something else is now more expensive, given that the company's
by bpodgursky 11y ago
The point is not margin on roaming, it's overall corporate profit margin.
If roaming is cheaper, something else is now more expensive, given that the company's profit margin isn't high to start with.
Roaming fees are probably more progressive anyway and subsidizing plans for less mobile people, aka income limited people.
- hvis 11y agoThere's no reason to believe the telecoms can't make up for it with volume. Like, people might actually start using the roaming services a lot more.
- bpodgursky 11y agoThere's no reason to think the telecoms were too dumb to think of that independently, and try it, if it were true.
- Retric 11y agoI think there might be a rule forcing telecom companies to do dumb things. AT&T had a problem where they could not create a bill for some government networking services. It was build in that they had a fixed window which kept expiring. This went on for years while they fought to keep the contract... I don't recall all the details but read up on FTS-2000 it was a mess.
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