Talk:Telecommunications tariff

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Comments in response to Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Teletraffic Engineering. I think that this is too much directed towards the technical side of Tariffing and too little towards the marketing and social side. It may also be seen as a little naïve. Aspects which should be covered include

• mobile phone subsidies
• loss leaders
• non call charges
  • supplementary services
  • SMSs
• roaming charges in mobile networks
  • imperfect information => ineffective competition
• the influence of regulation
• tarriff complexity
• differentiation (business vs. consumer)

For example, I understand that actually call charges on some mobile networks are actually run at a loss whilst other charges make reasonably large profits.

I don't yet see any other page which this directly duplicates, so it probably represents a useful contribution Mozzerati 17:31, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)