London Banter - View Single Post - Dual SIM phones was:Worker killed by Southern train was covering for brother

Someone Somewhere · July 18th 19, 07:02 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 17/07/2019 20:44, wrote:

Ones where the credit rolls over and you don't have to make a regular
calls to keep them alive, aren't quite as common as you claim. The
networks hate them because they tend to get used in "glovebox" phones
were they have all the costs of maintaining the number and the billing
records, for virtually no revenue.

Oh come on, its costs them precisely Â£0.00 to maintain a number, its simply
data in a database.

And you are qualified to say that how? Who supplies the database, and
on what license terms (hint: it's often on a per slot basis) - and
that's before we get to the overall costs where there may not be a net
gain per subscriber, but they have to be paid anyway - the radio
network, the data centres, the backhaul, the support staff, customer
services, Ofcom, etc etc etc.