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Re: Phone call..

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers, aus.tv
Subject Re: Phone call..
Date 2016-05-02 09:33 +1000
Message-ID <doni22Fcvr4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (9 earlier) <ng001k$66i$1@dont-email.me> <doipndFdh7qU1@mid.individual.net> <ng5up7$e0l$1@dont-email.me> <donedrFcb1gU1@mid.individual.net> <ng6137$kul$1@dont-email.me>

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"BruceS" <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ng6137$kul$1@dont-email.me...
> On 05/01/2016 04:31 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "BruceS" <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ng5up7$e0l$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 04/29/2016 10:13 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "BruceS" <bruces42@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ng001k$66i$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 04/28/2016 02:15 PM, alvey wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:47:51 -0000 (UTC), news16 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:20:17 +1000, alvey wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get none at all now. Moved house and ditched the landline. It's
>>>>>>>> marvellous.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you're not with optarse them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SWMBO purchased a new mobile, new number and within the first week
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> scams had started.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In any case, just give it time; their robo caller will connect you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've had the same number since the beginning of Time magazine.
>>>>>> Presumably it's still too expensive for the spammers to call mobiles.
>>>>>
>>>>> What difference does it make to the spammer whether your number is a
>>>>> mobile or a land line?
>>>>
>>>> It costs some spammers a lot more to call a mobile than to call a
>>>> landline.
>>>>
>>>> That's the case with my voip service, it costs me just 10c per
>>>> call to landlines, regardless of the length of the call. It costs
>>>> me 15c/minute with per second billing to call a mobile.
>>>> No fixed charge per month at all.
>>>
>>> That's kind of how my mobile service works; no monthly charge,
>>
>> Yeah, mine does too.
>>
>>> just 10c/min
>>
>> In my case 12c/min
>>
>>> plus $1 daily charge any day I use it.
>>
>> Nothing like that here.
>>
>>> I can change to something like 15cmin without the daily charge, but I
>>> tend to use it in chunks, mostly on trips, so this is cheaper.
>>
>> I do too, use it mostly on Saturdays for calling, during the garage
>> sale run. We coordinate the opening times using mobile phones.
>>
>> It wouldn't save me anything because I pay by the minute and
>> most calls only cost me 12c. I don't normally spend $1 on all calls.
>
> When I'm on a trip, there's a good chance I'll spend over two
> hours on the mobile in a single day.  While at home, I go weeks without
> using it, since I have the home phone.
>
>>> My VOIP is a straight monthly charge.  I don't recall them even having
>>> a plan that differentiated between mobile and land-line.
>>
>> I can't remember one that didn't.
>
> I just checked the pages for mine (Ooma), and don't see anything that
> differentiates calls to mobiles vs. calls to land lines.  I guess this
> one of those things done differently here than there, whether because
> of some regulatory difference or just how the companies try to maximize
> profits.  When I make a call, unless I know the recipient I usually
> have no idea whether the number is for a mobile or not.

Yeah, that's the big difference between here and
there, all our mobile number have a unique 04 prefix.

And we don't pay a cent when someone calls us on our mobile, unlike you lot.

>>> It seems to me a spammer would have to be a bit silly to go with
>>> anything but a straight monthly charge, unlimited use type of plan.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>>>> I've noticed that I don't get spam calls to my cell,
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I've never had one either.
>>>>
>>>>> while I get plenty to my land line despite being on no-call lists.
>>>>
>>>> I might get one a week at most and I am on the DNC too.
>>>>
>>>>> I don't know why, though.
>>>>
>>>> See above. 

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