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T-Mobile is charging a penny a minute for “out-of-plan” numbers

October 24, 2016

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Fact of telephony: it costs more for telephone companies to handle calls to conference rooms, chat lines and broadcast lines. In fact, some conference calls which have been routed through so-called “free” services might prove convenient to the arranger of the call, but the charge then gets planted with the carriers involved.

T-Mobile recently decided that it was paying too much to support these calls and has decided to defray them to its customers with a 1¢ per minute charge on them. The network has always considered them to be out-of-plan numbers that it was just covering the cost of, different than your run-of-the-mill personal or office number.

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