Quote:Can anyone understand the crazy business logic of Finarea and their many telecoms brands?
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If this 4p connection charge isn't repeated on 1899 can we begin to assume that 18185, 18866, 1899 dialaround etc are all sub franchise operations of Finarea competing with each other?
Can't really understand why they need to have around 10 of them here altogether, but they seem to have several in each other country where they operate. I was struck by just how similar one of their French sites is to 1899, same layout, same woman's picture, so I doubt they are all separate. Maybe different people go for different branding, colours, graphics on the website ... really don't know.
On calling Liechtenstein mobile, I had replies that it would not be added as a destination on 18866 or 1899 and they recommended Telediscount, which isn't very helpful for calling from a mobile. With the introduction of other global roaming SIMs, the cheapest way to call one of the others is for about 1.2p/min, but this is also certainly a mistake, on a par with calling most of the world for 1p/min back in June, so I'm not sure about going for it.
Yes, the Sipura product is interesting, but still costs quite a bit of money before any savings are made, and I'm just thinking that many of the calls that would divert in and out could be made at similar tariffs anyway without the hardware ... as I see it, and without claiming to understand all of it, the Sipura routing only really adds call diversion possibilities to your existing number compared to the use of a separate new one. But I can see that renting an ordinary landline number should be less necessary.
But back on topic, at 4p a go, it is little cheaper off-peak than BT, and is likely to make more people think about the various cps deals with free off-peak calls. And the usage threshold that makes people look at all-in cps has just moved, so they may find it difficult to keep all their customers ...