Can anyone figure out Wireless Plans? Who's really getting the deal?





“The whole pricing thing is weird,” said Barry Nalebuff, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management. “You pay $60 to make your first phone call. Your next 1,000 minutes are free. Then the minute after that costs 35 cents.”


“You give people a really good bargain on this bucket of minutes,”...

Some international carriers are beginning to offer free downloads for smartphones that will detect when an international call is being made and automatically route the call to a 'dial-around' access number for completion over their network. This works the same as using a calling card except the software in the phone does all the access number and PIN dialing rather than the user.

One such carrier is Tel3 Mobile. For international calls originating from the US it's hard to beat their...