That has not stopped the central bank from making plans to raise its key unsecured overnight call rate to 0.5%.
The average dropped-call rate for the entire mobile industry is 1.4 percent.
The carrier pointed to its success attracting customers and claimed its dropped-call rate is only slightly worse than the best in the industry.
The tricksters then permanently divert the number to a local rate call and scoop up the difference between the premium rate and the local call.
"Patients should complain to their practice if they are concerned calls to their GP practice are costing more than a local rate call, " he said.
Today the market was lifted on positive sentiment, due mainly to the release of the hotly debated, political football we normally call the unemployment rate number.
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He did not call for exchange rate targets but there will be international concern that, as countries jostle for export markets, a battle over currencies will follow.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
Lawyers representing Brook's parents found midwives failed to correctly monitor her heart rate or call a doctor when no heart beat could be found.
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Start with what real estate pros call the "capitalization rate, " the return a rental property likely will fetch in the coming year, as a percent of its market value.
Phone regulator Oftel has weighed in and told BT to offer its rivals deals for Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination (Friaco).
Buffett then reiterated his call to raise the tax rate on capital gains, which would increase the income-tax rate paid by the wealthy.
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However it rejects any call for a single VAT rate across the EU, and references to a financial transaction tax were removed during committee stage.
The minimum rate for a call to any United Kingdom land-line number is 10p, which buys 55 seconds of chat, after which it is 1p for every 5.5 seconds.
Known as Friaco, for Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination, this charges ISPs for the number of lines they take from BT rather than the amount of traffic flowing over them.
But the problem is that they're also saying that anyone who calls you will get charged the mobile rate for the call no matter whether you're at home (when you're supposedly connected to a landline) or not.
If you book a room directly through a hotel, you can call to see if a lower rate is available.
Call around to find the lowest rate for your coverage needs.
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Even Mr Romney's much more modest call to cut the corporate tax rate and extend income-tax cuts dating from George Bush junior's presidency generates more dismay than enthusiasm among voters.
In fingering GDP as a target, monetarists pick a rate at which this Keynesian measure should grow at, and then they call for money growth by the Fed in order to reach the growth rate.
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Barclays missed the call on that one, modeling the growth rate at around 3 percent quarterly.
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Not only had he competed unfairly with us legit money managers, but we've even lost a few clients to his steady rate of return's siren call.
Female candidates who did not include a picture were most likely to receive a call from the employer, with a response rate 22% higher than plain-looking women and an incredible 30% higher than the attractive women.
That changed in early 2012 with a call from Instagram, which had hit its data rate limit.
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Going a step further, why has nobody on the Street begun to pat themselves on the back for making a monster call (18 of 29 sell-side analysts rate Home Depot at a buy or overweight)?
Forecasts call for a 2.6% annual GDP growth rate in the first quarter.
According to the person familiar with the proposals, the new border security requirements call for 100 percent surveillance and a 90 percent apprehension rate of border crossers or would-be crossers in sectors where the majority of unauthorized entries take place.
Although I was devastated at the time, it was a bit of a close call and a lucky escape, with a 30% morbidity rate and several days before help could have picked me up.
The center is meeting its performance standards, and its 77% retention rate is more than twice as good as Sprint's call center in the Kansas City suburbs.
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