Hi,

This is a bit of a joke post but still...

A little digging, and a little more time in the evolution of the Finarea /
Betamax services (particularly their VoIP outings), and more importantly the
evolution of their customers and customer base...

... reveals that phone top-ups (how long for I wonder... still)... from
France are at the rather bargaineous rates of ... (hold your breath ... **
Drum Roll **)...

Phone Call Charged @ ? 0.56 // You Receive: ? 0.38 // And a joyous 120
free days!!

The UK phone top-up used to be / started off at £1.50 for something like £1
credit and 120 free days ... they shortly thereafter refined that down to
same monetary amounts but only 14 free days.

At the above rates not only is it substantially less than a third of the
original UK pricing and offering but still gives 120 free days.

Even with the rolling 300 minutes / 7 days... a number of parallel accounts
approximating £2/3 a month would yield:

~ 6 accounts affording 1800 minutes per 7 days = 250 minutes a day which is
probably near enough unlimited for me... (plus these calculations exclude
the fact of 120 days rather than a month of credit and unlimited calling
utility... which with averaging up or rounding down would mean perhaps as
much as a 1/2/3/4/5[?]0% lift in these figures)...

Calculated across a four month base line (120 days)... total accounts (at
£2.50 per month)... over the entire time period = 26; or 8000 minutes / 7
days; which = 19 hours a day (unlimited enough for me); plus after a
complete four month cycle you have ? 15 to spend which at the prevailing
?0.01 no longer free rate provides another 1500 minutes... hmmm...

Hmm... that sounds right / good... ;) /  ...

A certain amount of account management required but still... lol

[you know what comes here / mind clunking and whirring - lol]


Best wishes,



News Reader


P.s. Oh yes, I remember (one of) the other thing(s) I meant to add - you
also get for your money (lol)... free calling to (all) countless (their
free) worldwide and European destinations as well as [just] the UK  ..
.
hmm.. . nice  ...

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