Hi ataboy,
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Originally Posted by ataboy
But not as competitive as some of their Freeday offerings. . .
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Hmm, not really. The "freedays" are subsidized by quite high rates for mobile phone calls. Because you have to top up the account regurlarly to receive the freedays and use it up for more or less expensive mobile phone calls in the long run you pay more.
I have compared all phone calls in a one years period that were placed in an international translation bureau (so a good mix of destinations and mobile and fixed line calls) in an Excel Pivot. It turned out that VoiceTrading is still cheaper, even if I would have used multiple Betamax accounts to keep all land line calls almost free and use the Betamax clone with the lowest mobile rates for each destination.
Although the calls to mobile networks were only approx. 10% the amount of minutes to landlines - they caused 90% of the costs!
In the end nothing is really for free and the people at Betamax seem to calculate right. Play on the people's "greed" with "free calls" and make the real money with the calls to the non-free destinations and the calls outside the freedays period ... ;-)
Even if you use Betamax for free land line calls only - how do you use up the money in the account then?!?
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gambrinus