In message <4lmil8F2m41dU1@individual.net>, Ivor Jones
<ivor@despammed.invalid> writes
>> I don't think you're the sort of customer easyMobile is
>> after. Presumably their 75p charge is to discourage
>> people like you from joining.
>>
>> Having said that, I know someone who receives hundreds of
>> incoming call minutes per month, but probably only makes
>> about five short calls during the period. So the 75p
>> charge can even penalise customers who do use their
>> mobile phone a lot. 
>Precisely, and you've just shot down your own argument.
It was more an observation than an argument.
>Why, I wonder, do other networks not feel the need to implement penalising
>charges such as this..?
easyMobile isn't a network, as such. Perhaps there is a 'service
charge' for each customer levied on them by T-Mobile.
easyMobile isn't strictly PAYG, it's a contact tariff: customers have to
pass a credit check and it appears to be possible for them to have a
negative balance, ironically for not using the service.
Most mobile
contracts do have a monthly charge. One way to look at it: in
easyMobile's case there's a 'line rental' charge of 75p a month which is
only payable if you haven't spent GBP5 during the previous three months.
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