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Old 09-04-2003, 09:19 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally posted by alkaloid
.15 * 60 + .89 = 9.00 + .89 = $9.89 / hr

How much do those operators get paid?? Can the operators do more than one call at the time? I doubt it. How do they make money? How???
Two words: Premium Sponsors.

The people who call have the cost subsidized by advertisers. Infone is a legal "shill" (to use the old term). Infone is paid by one advertiser or another to get the person on the phone steered in their direction, be it a hotel, a restaurant, a show promoter, whomever.

BTW 89¢ for directory information is 10¢ cheaper than what SBC (the local "Baby Bell") charges here, but is still 89¢ more expensive than Google.
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