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To: Lhn5 who wrote (18377)	12/14/2006 9:23:11 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Lhn5, re: "Does [lowered costs] that take into consideration the infrastructure that Tmobile had to put in place to carry the calls in the first place, or is that just the current cost of actually carrying that particular call at that particular moment not even considering the prior capital costs?" Probably some of the factors you've cited, but the lowered costs are more likely, IMO, related to, in part, for certain types of calls -- and entirely, for others -- the elimination of inter-carrier billings, terminating-end charges and use of the distant end's subscriber data base lookups, settlements and the avoidance of Signaling System No. 7 ($$7), which the WiFi mode sometimes avoids entirely. Those are some of my thoughts on the matter, but a more precise answer to your question would require specific knowledge of T-Mobile's actuals, which I don't have access to, but perhaps someone else here does. Anyone? FAC