I was just wondering about my cellular network service vendor's latest offer for its valued customers. They are offering reduced call rates for their customers. Since Mobilink is the most expensive network out there they must be loosing their customer base and that is precisely why they have reduced their call rates. The revised call rates are nothing but a far cry from giving relief to their customers, which this company never has on its agenda, by the way.
According to the new call rates all on network calls are charged at a rate of Rs. 2.75/min. However this tag is exclusive of any taxes. Adding taxes at the rate of 15% makes this charge Rs. 3.17/min. Now the company felt over generous and provided added benefit to its already bestowed customers. It offered to further subsidize call rates for 3 customer specified numbers. Now any customer can call any three mobilink numbers at reduced rates of Rs. 2.25/min. When we add the taxes at the above rate the actual charge comes out to be Rs. 2.60/min. So for these three numbers the caller saves a theoretic Rs. 0.57/min. But you know Mobilink they are the biggest money looters telephony has seen in this country. The cunning that they are they introduced a surcharge of Rs. 25 per choice of such numbers, which is payable once.
When we do the mathematics involved in these figures right, such as I did last night, we find out that this saving of Rs. 0.57/min is only affective after you have called that particular number for 44 minutes. Confused? Let me clarify. Since we are paying Rs.25 per number as one time charge for this service that means we actually start profiting from this scheme when we have used up the Rs.25. Now if we save Rs. 0.57/min, as calculated above, we need to have called the number for no less than 44 minutes to spend this amount of Rs.25. Still confused.....!!!! Just believe my skills and believe that we are being fooled.
When we choose 3 numbers we end up paying them Rs. 75 for a deal which we are going to loose. I mean there are very few numbers that I would be calling for that long. So the time involved for users like myself makes this scheme more of a scam.
According to the new call rates all on network calls are charged at a rate of Rs. 2.75/min. However this tag is exclusive of any taxes. Adding taxes at the rate of 15% makes this charge Rs. 3.17/min. Now the company felt over generous and provided added benefit to its already bestowed customers. It offered to further subsidize call rates for 3 customer specified numbers. Now any customer can call any three mobilink numbers at reduced rates of Rs. 2.25/min. When we add the taxes at the above rate the actual charge comes out to be Rs. 2.60/min. So for these three numbers the caller saves a theoretic Rs. 0.57/min. But you know Mobilink they are the biggest money looters telephony has seen in this country. The cunning that they are they introduced a surcharge of Rs. 25 per choice of such numbers, which is payable once.
When we do the mathematics involved in these figures right, such as I did last night, we find out that this saving of Rs. 0.57/min is only affective after you have called that particular number for 44 minutes. Confused? Let me clarify. Since we are paying Rs.25 per number as one time charge for this service that means we actually start profiting from this scheme when we have used up the Rs.25. Now if we save Rs. 0.57/min, as calculated above, we need to have called the number for no less than 44 minutes to spend this amount of Rs.25. Still confused.....!!!! Just believe my skills and believe that we are being fooled.
When we choose 3 numbers we end up paying them Rs. 75 for a deal which we are going to loose. I mean there are very few numbers that I would be calling for that long. So the time involved for users like myself makes this scheme more of a scam.
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