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Telecom’s Anytime Plus
rates appear to be amongst the lowest available
on the market today… Let’s examine
that shall we…..
The customer has to pay $10 per month additional
cost for the landline in order to qualify
for the Anytime plus rates. Also the rate
is Minute plus Minute.
Let’s take the Anytime Plus national
calling rate of 14c per minute for example.
Communitel’s national rate is 17c per
minute on a Minute plus Second charging rate.
Take off the 10% prompt payment rebate and
that makes our Nett rate 15.3c per minute.
To do better out of the Anytime plus rates
the average household would have to make more
than 200 average length (3.5 min) national
calls per month, just to recover the $10 and
start to make use of the “lower”
rates.
That means over 760 minutes (over 12 hours!)
of national calling per month to better Communitel’s
rate! Check your bill and see how long you
spend on the phone to other cities in NZ each
month. But don’t forget to take into
account the rounding up effect of Minute plus
Minute charging.
Most families don’t get past 200 minutes
in an average month.
And you may as well try to take into account
the number of times you hang up within 3 seconds
of connecting (Wrong number, Voicemail etc)
and still get charged for a full minute.
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We don’t charge you $10 per month
to get our “best” rates so
that makes our rate…. Exactly what
it says it is, or even less if you pay
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We don’t hide or disguise any
aspect of how we charge for our calls.
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Our rate per minute applies to any
part of the first minute and then you
pay by the second. |
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It’s very simple and we do expect
the average Kiwi to understand it. |
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