If you used a pre-pay phone to call to vote on a TV charity programme, how do the TV companies get their cash?

Question

Like when you call The X Factor ar a charity show and they say 50pence (or whatever) goes to that charity

Answer 1

I think what everyone is trying to say is that the money will be deducted from whatever credit you have on your PAYG phone just as it would for any other call and is then paid to the TV company. It's actually a very lucrative way of making money for TV companies. For example, the calls to the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" phone lines more than pays for the programme and the prizes, and there's still advertising revenue to come after that. The recent explosion of TV games channels is another example. I think I'm in the wrong business.

Answer 2

The telephone company or the landline companies are affiliated to their programs and they have this business arrangement that reflects on the data how many callers called for charity and the charity collected as you are paid already to the card that you had bought from the telephone company.it is just amatter of business transaction wherein the company also earned as well as their card are faster in circulations when everyone's buy it fo any business purposes! The telephone companies are benefitted because of their sales that attracts peoiple to call to consume their offered prepaid calls!

Answer 3

Because you have already payed the phone company. The Phone company will pay ITV the moolah

Answer 4

I assume from the telephone companies.They probably have a system.

Answer 5

are you stupid or what ,the telephone company YOU have already paid THEM when you bought your credit up front

Answer 6

good question.