Cable & Wireless Plc’s 50%-owned Mercury One-2-One UK mobile phone service cut charges for business customers yesterday, claiming that it was now 10% to 25% cheaper within the M25 orbital motorway around London to use its cellular service than to use a British Telecommunications Plc landline to make a daytime local, national or international call. People will soon see through this nonsense once they look at the small print, retorted British Telecom: There is simply no comparison with BT prices when you include the total costs, including buying a handset, connection fee, monthly payment and additional ‘inside option’ tariff it scoffed.
