In the US it's user pays - so if someone calls you then you pay to receive the call. That's why their plans are in minutes.  The minutes are in AND out.

In OZ, Orange (now Three/3) tried it on their CDMA network, but it never took off.   They restricted it to a location (ie. it did some checking that you were within a certain physical area).  In Oz the legal requirements are that a geographic number is tied to a physical location (well, kind of, it's wierd), so I guess the legality of it is difficult.

The other thing, which is a bit hidden, is that carriers receive MUCH more revenue for call termination on mobile than land line.  In Oz it's 9-12c/min for mobile but 1c/min for PSTN (or there abouts).   

The question in my mind is - it's easy enough to forward calls from a land line (call forward all) so if you're not willing to do that and pay for the minutes, would you be willing to do it?  

MMC

On 20/04/2009, at 12:06 PM, Patrick Jordan-Smith wrote:

Presumably because they don't want to?

On 20/04/2009, at 2:13 PM, James Jones wrote:

is there any nand experts on here? I just was just wondering why none of the moblie phone providers have but local numbers on a cell like we do in the states. I was just wondering not very familiar with NAND stuff here in NZ.


James Jones
Managing Director
Freedom Networks
+64 6 3678300
+1 413 771 1402
james@freedomnet.co.nz


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