I was under the impression that they were now charging $3.99/minute to USA surfers. They can't be giving the webmaster a large percentage of the USA rate, because they're still paying $2.00 per minute if a webmaster generates over a certain amount of minutes per day. Taking the telecom company's cut out of that at 1 penny per minute minimum, and their own cut out of it which would have to be 1 penny per minute minumum, at a minumum they have to be charging $2.02 per minute. We all know, it's unlikely that any of them will settle for $0.01 per minute. These are dialer companies after all. ;-) More like they're paying the webmaster $0.15 and pocketing the remaining $3.84 between themselves... as well as reserving some to balance out chargebacks when they occur.
Can't say I'm sure about their current pricing situation, nor do I really care... but $3.99 sounds reasonable in comparison with other dialers out there.
( 'course, its still very high rate for surfers
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