Editing Arbitrage (section)

===Telecom arbitrage===
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Telecom arbitrage companies allow phone users to make international calls for free through certain access numbers. Such services are offered in the United Kingdom; the telecommunication arbitrage companies get paid an interconnect charge by the UK mobile networks and then buy international routes at a lower cost. The calls are seen as free by the UK contract mobile phone customers since they are using up their allocated monthly minutes rather than paying for additional calls.

Such services were previously offered in the United States by companies such as FuturePhone.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2560255|access-date=2008-12-23|title=Free International Calls! Just Dial ... Iowa|date=2006-10-13|author=Ned Potter|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]}}</ref> These services would operate in rural telephone exchanges, primarily in small towns in the state of Iowa. In these areas, the local telephone carriers are allowed to charge a high "termination fee" to the caller's carrier in order to fund the cost of providing service to the small and sparsely populated areas that they serve. However, FuturePhone (as well as other similar services) ceased operations upon legal challenges from AT&T and other service providers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://techdirt.com/articles/20070207/123022.shtml|access-date=2008-12-23|title=Phone Call Arbitrage Is All Fun And Games (And Profit) Until AT&T Hits You With A $2 Million Lawsuit|date=2007-02-07|author=Mike Masnick}}</ref>