However, this idea that higher licence fees will lead to higher call costs is economically suspect.
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She welcomed the fact that call costs were to be reduced by ending the use of 0845 numbers later in the year.
In the same sense that handling a phone call costs zero.
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Ok, so maybe it's not the lamest thing we've ever heard of, but anyone who has ever lived in Britain knows that it costs a lot more to call a cellphone there than it does to call a landline (unlike here in the States where it costs the same to call any kind of phone).
This formula has worked for RightNow.com, which promises to cut your call-center costs with a Web-hosted service.
If outsourcing call centers cut costs for American Express (NYSE:AXP), it also does for its credit card competitors Visa (NYSE:V) and Master Card (NYSE:MA).
And when an umpire clearly makes the wrong call, and it costs us, what do you think: I'm gonna sit on my hands?
As Lehman analyst Tony Butler pointed out on the call, cutting manufacturing costs may require buying more "intermediates" from outside the company, where Merck will have less control over their production.
On reflection, perhaps you should think through your call to have more mortgage debt held by institutions with direct government guarantees and exposures, not to mention the efficacy of the implicit call for higher mortgage costs to American consumers.
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said Labour did not oppose the bill, but told the House she would call for amendments to cut water costs for the poor.
The company should already be charging the most it can for that marginal phone call and a change in sunk costs might affect accounting profit but not that revenue maximising price charged.
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Outsourcing company Sutherland Global Services has tested Asterisk in 400-person call centers, finding it cuts telephone costs by two-thirds.
The technology and the call centre may be expensive but the true costs - and real success - come with brand building.
After all, like Wi-Fi, once you get beyond the miniscule hardware cost of the phone itself, it costs close to absolutely nothing per call.
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Trial lawyers and their Democratic allies call for health reform along European lines to reduce costs, making torts less expensive.
So the only way to reduce health care costs and to wring out what I call waste and fraud and abuse, I hear that term coming up, but nobody's implemented it.
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Some people call this "squeeze" because of the pressure these costs put on family budgets.
The third quarter performance (including rising costs and contracting margins) was apparently the wakeup call that triggered a major change of direction announced last week.
These are classed as a data call and with an unlimited data plan, do not incur any costs.
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Bank stocks will probably fall and they'll see their borrowing costs rise since this deal signals that other eurozone countries may call on bondholders if their banks run into trouble.
It's unlikely that South Africa's call center industry will outflank India's, even with its rising labor costs.
Then in December 1999 Otari got a cold call from QuantumShift, a small Novato, Calif. firm that manages telecom costs.
She recounts the many ways that charities hide politically unappealing costs like fundraising and overhead, usually by finding some way to call them program support.
Also appearing on "Meet the Press, " Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called for expanding the tax deduction on health care costs for employers to include individual taxpayers -- what the Republicans call equalized tax treatment -- and limiting medical malpractice lawsuits that he said drive up the cost of medical care.
Republicans call for tort-reform first, saying it is the best way to keep costs down.
This cheapness is owed to what I call the flip side of Moore's Law, the side that predicts dropping costs at a constant rate of performance.
Since it outsources its help desk, each and every call to the service provider incurred a charge, and before long password-reset costs ballooned to millions of dollars.
Going into 2013, CEOs of all stripes face a challenging energy market in which costs are rising, and leading energy providers are just as likely to call North Dakota home as they are Dubai or coastal Norway.
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