Am 04.01.2012 12:26, schrieb Recliner:
Both domestic and international calls from the UK are now more or less
free, but only if you use carriers other than BT. If those companies
were not allowed to function, the price drops would not have happened.

I think you are distorting the facts:

In reality, if BT was not forced to operate as a profit oriented
commercial company, maintaining its position as the the British telecoms
operator, it would have lowered the prices according to the
technological advances. Deutsche Bundespost did in its times.

But once the incumbent is a profit oriented commercial company, as BT
is or Deutsche Telekom (T-something), it does maintain high prices for
those who are not so keen to switch to a different telecoms company
every other month. They call this windfall profits.

Some for Deutsche Telekom in Germany ... But it is even worse for
their unregulated competitors: none of those allows to save by using
call-by-call with cheaper switchers, so that one is stuck with higher
prices for international calls and calls to mobile phones than what a
customer Deutsche Telekom can have.


L.W.