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EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News There are some concerns that it may be prohibitively expensive to surf the Internet or carry out a video call with a smartphone while abroad, because the data transfer costs could be hiked up for customers roaming on another network.
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
Gartner approves iPhone for limited enterprise use
Blog Other key criticisms of the new phone were security centered around firewalls and encryption, no file transfers, lack of cut and paste and issues with Active sync where no record of replied to/forwarded email is recorded (unlike in blackberry land...
[August 8, 2008, 9:20]
Desktop PC popularity 'to plummet' by 2007
News Microsoft recently killed off its consumer-focused product, but Kleynhans said he expects the technology to reappear in the corporate environment, due to the need for roaming access to data while on the corporate premises.
[January 15, 2004, 12:20]
A plug for sanity
Leader Now, about those data-roaming charges. Nothing should be more trivial than the shape of the power connector on your mobile phone. A bit of engineering for structural strength, plug retention, voltage and current, and that should be that.
[September 26, 2007, 17:27]
Origami's fondness for folding
Leader Which means if you take your 3G Origami to Rio, you'll be paying between tuppence and fourpence a second in data roaming charges just for having it turned on. Microsoft wants so hard to be cool, it hurts to to watch.
[March 3, 2006, 14:20]
Extortion on the waves
Blog Comment Incidentally, it's not just roaming rates that are extortionate - I have recently had a horrified in-law pleading with me to disable the mobile ISP connection on her phone. She'd happily been using the nokia maps application which of course was...
[September 29, 2009, 10:24]
VC funding rains down on The Cloud
News Six months from now we'll see customer-friendly service providers, with better roaming and integration between existing wireless data offerings," he said. Wi-Fi hot spot 'wholesale' provider The Cloud has received venture capital funding from 3i...
[July 12, 2004, 16:10]
Ofcom must retune its research
Leader We've seen this happen twice already, once for international voice roaming charges and once, with even greater mendacity, for data. Despite a century of growth, the wireless world remains as full of unexplored potential and turmoil as any...
[November 15, 2006, 16:04]
Norfolk enchants with free Wi-Fi
Talkback What with all the orice gouging that telcos have been undertaking regarding roaming fees, I can think of nothing better than to see government taking the fight to them directly where it hurts - in the hip pocket.
[August 3, 2006, 1:24]
EC to make fibre 'recommendation'
News Ducatel said the main issues that needed to be consistently addressed across Europe included next-generation access and mobile termination rates, the fees charged between mobile operators that determine how much users get charged for mobile data...
[February 27, 2008, 16:23]
New wireless VoIP service launched
News Pointing out that the service was chiefly geared towards business users, King said it included data usage which is not covered by recent caps on roaming charges and was priced at £29.99 per month, although the company would consider offering...
[May 24, 2007, 17:32]
O2's Wi-Fi plans: Ireland today, UK tomorrow?
News With Wi-Fi, your roaming ability is limited, but GPRS allows you to access data while you're on the move," explained Gordon. Mobile phone operator O2 is set to launch up to 20 Wi-Fi hot spots in Ireland next year, as a possible prelude to a rollout...
[November 27, 2002, 15:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The thing that did for me was finding out that when I'm out of the country, UK calls to my UK voicemail seem to attract two lots of international roaming rates "because we have to send the call to where you are and then back to the voicemail...
[October 28, 2005, 19:30]
Telcos could lose out on mobile IM
News Presence in IM is certainly very compelling to the end user but, if you think about the revenue model for cellular operators, a lot of their money is made from a lack of transparency," he said, highlighting the revenues gained through roaming and...
[May 25, 2006, 14:30]
New iPhones will cost up to 87pc more
News O2's pay-monthly tariffs for the iPhone include the operator's International Traveller Service, which gives discounts on some charges while roaming across different countries. Unlimited UK data and Wi-Fi is also included.
[June 9, 2009, 14:58]
Truphone adds Skype, Twitter to iPhone client
News As the iPhone is usually sold with an 'unlimited' data plan, instant messages should not cost anything above that flat fee unless the user is roaming internationally. The internet telephony company Truphone has turned its client for the iPhone and...
[January 6, 2009, 15:39]
Megabeam's Wi-Fi service undercuts BT
News With the Megabeam WLAN service, business travellers at key hotspots across Europe can have unmetered data access at fixed rates, faster and cheaper than GPRS, with no additional charge for roaming," said Jarvis.
[November 7, 2002, 13:34]
Orange roaming rates claim another victim
Talkback If anyone can recommend a cheap roaming solution, there are a lot of interested punters here. In total, the data costs were some £4,000 more than my typical usage! Ive had the same overcharging issue, but with O2/CPW.
[February 4, 2006, 19:16]
O2 finalising roaming price cuts
News UK mobile operators O2 and Orange are set to follow competitors T-Mobile and Vodafone by cutting their mobile roaming rates. At the beginning of the year, with the Telefonica deal, we said one of the immediate benefits that our customers would see...
[May 9, 2006, 15:25]
Heroes and villains
Leader In fact, Reding's campaign to force mobile providers including Orange, which happens to be an ISPA member to cut the ridiculous costs of roaming calls in Europe stands as one of the most impressive and timely actions by a regulator in years.
[January 5, 2007, 14:28]
