On 23/12/2010 22:44, David Looser wrote:
"Bill wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:31:38 -0000, "David Looser"
wrote:



I'm not sure I agree with that. A mobile phone is a personal phone, a
fixed-line phone belongs to a premises; though I grant that this
distinction
is more relevant to businesses. Also of course a fixed-line phone is much
cheaper to use, and isn't going to fail because the batteries have gone
flat
or there isn't a signal.

You obviously haven't looked at BTs prices recently. £13.29 P.M.
standing charge, 10.9p connection charge and 6.4p per minute daytime
calls. Most mobile contracts are much cheaper than that.

Oh no they aren't!


Well, they can be - PAYG for example. One of the costs that rarely gets
discussed is that to the caller. My brother doesn't have a landline
because 'it works out cheaper' . . .

Rob