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Я догадывался о том, что в “мобильном” королевстве не все… честно.
Однако, даже и подумать не мог, что все так “запущено”…
Статья в The New York Times называется “What Do Your Minutes Cost? You Can’t Tell by the Cellphone Bill”.
This didn’t really matter in past years, because no matter what you paid, you didn’t have much choice. Wireless carriers generally charged the same prices for their calling plans, and relatively few consumers wanted to do business with the prepaid calling services like TracFone, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and even the prepaid services from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
Now it matters. The prepaid companies are selling slick phones for reasonable prices, and you can make calls for as little as 5 cents a minute on some of the services if you pay for $50 worth of calls in advance. Is that more than you pay now for monthly service? We’ll stand by for a few minutes while you take the full bill amount, dig through the various categories of calls to determine how long you actually spent on the phone, and double-check your math.
Если коротко, то 49 процентов пользователей мобильной связи сильно переплачивают.
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Date: 2009-03-28 12:22 am (UTC)