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anemitz on Aug 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills

Where does the overhead come when you look at rates from carriers like http://flowroute.com/rates/ or https://www.plivo.com/pricing/GB/ or http://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing/gb

It might be that wholesale rates are capped but it clearly isn't pushing prices down for consumers who want to call into mobile numbers.

martinald on Aug 24, 2014 [–]

2.65c/min on Plivo? The other prefixes are more 'premium rate' numbers, not mobile numbers. That's about 1.5p/min.

Considering Plivo charges 1.2c/min for US numbers as a benchmark, the difference between US and UK numbers is 1.45c/min or... 0.88p/min, exactly the wholesale cost pretty much. So I think it is working.

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