Telecom companies around the world would simultaneously abolish long-distance calling charges, making every call a local call.

世界上的电信公司将同时废除长途通讯费用，使得每通电话都变成本地通话。

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Mobile-phone charges used to be very expensive because there was only Singapore Telecom providing the service (monopoly).

流动电话的收费一度非常昂贵，因为只有新电信提供这项（垄断）服务。

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The telecom companies have set very high charges for diverting international calls.

电话公司设定了非常高的国际电话转接费。

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Still, for some watchers of telecom stocks, the earnings-wrecking fourth-quarter charges highlight a hitch in the logic that makes both dividend-yielding telecom carriers attractive investments in a low rate environment.

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Both companies are similarly valued if you look at market capitalization plus debt as a ratio of earnings before accounting charges, a common valuation tool for telecom firms.

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They made money by teaming up with telecom providers and earning a share of the local call charges that users still had to pay.

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