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**pedFlicle** · 04-11-2010, 09:11 PM

Well the cost of the calls/texts are free to the company as the infrastructure is already in place and working and basically a contract is pure profit for the providers until the support/maintenance is required, then they access those funds for them.

That only counts for same network calls / data. Calls / data to phones on other networks incur carrier costs from the other network.

There is also the billions they have paid out for those infrastructures to be recouped.

Running a mobile phone network is not a cheap business and I doubt they have an offensive profit margin.

04-11-2010, 09:11 PM	#49
pedFlicle Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	Well the cost of the calls/texts are free to the company as the infrastructure is already in place and working and basically a contract is pure profit for the providers until the support/maintenance is required, then they access those funds for them. That only counts for same network calls / data. Calls / data to phones on other networks incur carrier costs from the other network. There is also the billions they have paid out for those infrastructures to be recouped. Running a mobile phone network is not a cheap business and I doubt they have an offensive profit margin.
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