Does AT&T provide a femtocell? I thought it was only Verizon.
MagicJack for Cellular phone [Telecom]
Jan 08, 2010
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Yes, but they call it a microcell
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And they actually charge you a monthly fee for the privilege of offloading your calls from their network to your ISP.
That's the way things work in many industries and, since this is a telecom forum, I'll trot out my favorite example: Bell Canada charges me $22.01 per month (plus sales taxes) for local phone service which includes unlimited local calling to a heck of a lot of people and businesses in the Toronto area. I don't pay them $8.95 per month to add Caller ID.
What's the cost of providing me with caller ID? Maybe someone could argue with my assertion that it's pennies since they have already paid for and implemented it on my CO switch but have it disabled for my line, but it certainly isn't 40% of the cost of providing me with unlimited local phone service!
Lots of companies charge huge markups on optional features so that they can advertise lower "Starting From" prices and still preserve their profits. Did you expect the cellular companies to be different?
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