BT and 3 hatching unlimited call bundles for landlines and mobiles

BT and 3 just kicked off a new campaign to end the high pricing on calls made to mobiles from landlines. The campaign’s called Terminate The Rate, and they want your support so that unlimited call bundles can be brought down to £35 a month!

We’re used to big bundles of cross network calls with mobile tariffs these days, but costs from landlines to mobiles are still sky high. That’s down to the mobile termination rates network operators charge – 4.7p per minute – to hook the call up. BT and Three have had enough though: the two companies have got together to call for an end to what BT’s consumer boss John Petter calls an “unfair tax” with their Terminate The Rate campaign.

The current cap set by Ofcom on mobile termination rates is in place until 2011, but BT and 3 want it brought down to below a penny, so that both networks can start offering better unlimited packages. In other words, you’ll be able to call anyone wherever they are from your landline without having to worry, while Three hopes that it’ll be able to bundle in unlimited cross network calls into your tariff for as little as £35 a month.

Don’t expect every network to get on board with BT and 3’s vision, but if it sounds like something you’d like to see happen, you can register your support right now at Terminatetherate.org.

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