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Originally Posted by bbob
pessimism or realism.
Roaming prices for nomral carries are dropping within the EU, that's a fact and to give you an example the dutch, belgium and luxembourgh politics are allready talking about making the benelux 1 zone for cellphone traffic, so no roaming anymore. It's a begin and it's just waiting till it's happens to the rest of europe. This is besides normal carriers of mvno allready reducing roaming prices.
The callkey thing has shown that reliability is a key because when business users have a phone number they want to keep it and be sure that it continues to work. We all know not only about callkey but some other problems, yackie and more in the past.
And sure the new entrants will see it different but what has changed with callkey that now all of a sudden it would make money in future.
Go aks investors that invest their money in different companies, 1 or 2 good investments will give cover the loss of the 6-8 bad investments they made. Personally I don't see callkey as of of those 1 or 2 good investements. also because there is more and more competition in this field now making it more difficult. And what RT said, users have moved on not willing to wait 3 month for a solution, they found there own solution, so yes they could use callkey as a backup.
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Ah...but we all want a bargain and as cheap as possible as easy as possible....up till about a year and a half ago, my own ld carrier had a charge of 10¢/minute to Liechtenstein with a termination fee of 1¢/minute (US currency)....so I merrily was able to have calls forwarded from my home number to me anywhere in Europe and it cost me 11¢/minute...along with using cbw and enlinea, I was paying pennies a minute to call....what could be better......(I know, by doing this I am contributing to the problem as the comapny is not making very much off me, but there were others around paying the full amount)...and when things began to change, especially the fees for calls to Liechtenstein mobiles, it went from 11¢ to 55¢ literally overnight as did enlinea and cbw, well I was most upset to put it mildly. You know you get used to a good thing.
Right now, even when in the UK using their ridiculously low priced T Mobile UK on yourcallworld (who can complain about 3p/minute to call from the UK to the USA)...to receive calls forwarded off my ld carrier I am still paying about 28¢/minute (I never was happy with voicestick and then they began charging a monthly fee)....and although the eu roaming rates are very good, I still have to factor in what I use it for the most namely the forwarding of calls so even though I might pay only 19p/minute to use T Mobile UK in France, I have to add to that the 28¢/minute the ld carrier charges me to forward from my home number to the UK number (ouoch)...total much too high at 66¢/minute...perhaps when roaming rates are totally eliminated in the eu, it will be reasonably priced.
Until then, sigh, I long for the good old days of a year or two ago (O9, BTW with enlinea which provides a US toll free number is okay but the quality of the calls is awful and we all know the Swiss problem).