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Originally Posted by Telly Bear
What? I have an iPhone on Three the phone was free and its £34 a month that £408. I believe they wholesale iPhone from Apple for around £280-£340. I'm in a 24 month contract totaling £808 if I NEVER incure any extra charges.
What makes you think 3 will only make £100 from me over 24 months? You make things up pal. Unless you have a link to back this up?
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They own there own foreign call centre,so they don't spend much on customer service, £100 would be a lot to them. You included wholesale costs, but what about the cost of calling other networks? 3 to 4p per minute in termination fees, ten minute call to someone on Vodafone costs 3 around 40p, if you get 2,000 minutes, work it out. Then there is VAT on top, so yeah my figures are reality. 3 are offering on the cheap to bump up customer numbers as it will increase the valuation of the company. Hutchison would want a price higher than there start up cost otherwise it would have been 11 years of wasted investment.
3 were the last to offer the iphone because of the costs, high spending customers leaving 3 during 2009 and early 2010 for an iphone on a network that offered them were given iphones imported from 3's italian operations.