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Operators Call Foul On EU Roaming Charge Initiative
Talkback The mobile phone operators only have themselves to blame. Anyone familiar with the industry has no doubt that roaming charges are a clear example of profiteering. The industry has had years to put it's own house in order and to self-regulate.
[March 30, 2006, 17:25]
Bishops Call For Mobile Mast Ban
News Many churches in Italy -- as in the UK -- are paid by mobile network operators in return for allowing mobile aerials to be attached to tall buildings such as bell towers. Catholic bishops have called for mobile phone masts to be banned from church...
[March 5, 2001, 14:54]
Operators Call Foul On EU Roaming Charge Initiative
News Other operators were less keen to comment on the findings. Tuesday's decision by the EU to bring out legislation forcing mobile companies to slash roaming charges has drawn fire from the industry which is vowing to fight the proposals tooth and nail.
[March 29, 2006, 15:45]
Truphone Applies For T-Mobile Injunction
News Truphone has had spats with other mobile operators in the past, specifically when it accused Vodafone and Orange of blocking its service from being run on their Nokia N95 handsets. VoIP operators like Truphone offer customers cheaper phone calls...
[July 12, 2007, 17:07]
Mobile Phone Price Cuts Branded 'inadequate'
News It is expected to force the four mobile network operators to cut these prices -- known as termination charges -- by 20 percent. Currently, BT Cellnet and Vodafone are the only mobile operators who are subject to Oftel regulation over certain issues...
[August 20, 2001, 11:43]
Mobile Operators Reap Savings From Ofcom
News Regulator Ofcom has saved the UK's mobile operators hundreds of millions of pounds per year — and the watchdog is hoping some of the cash will find its way back into consumers' pockets. Now Ofcom has reduced the amount operators can charge another...
[March 28, 2007, 10:14]
Mobile Operators Angered By Latest Roaming Proposals
News European mobile operators have nothing to fear from impending roaming tariff regulation if they remain competitive, a spokesperson for the European Commission has said. While acknowledging that the move would be "painful" for mobile operators, he...
[June 13, 2006, 16:40]
EC To Clamp Down On Mobile Roaming Charges
News Oftel recommended last year that termination charges -- the amount that mobile operators charge each other and fixed-line operators whenever one of their subscribers receive a call from another network -- should be capped.
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
Mobile Phone Price War Looms
News This report, which was expected to conclude that mobile users are being overcharged, seems to have been pre-empted by the two operators, although Orange told ZDNet on Monday that its package was not really aimed at consumers.
[September 3, 2001, 10:03]
Orange And One2One Could Face Oftel Controls
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel might be about to extend its controls over mobile phone operators One2One and Orange (quote: ORA). All four operators have very similar market influence today, so one could argue that it would be fairer to treat all four...
[February 21, 2001, 9:10]
Convergence: One Handset Is Better Than Two
News Into the future, as IP networks become more widespread, such services could even include interactive TV because yet another goal is "enabling fixed and mobile operators to compete more effectively with cable companies that are starting to go down...
[May 17, 2005, 15:25]
EC Slams Roaming Scams
News The EC has hit back at mobile operators charging rip-off rates for international roaming. Information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding announced the move in July, in order to raise awareness of the high costs of roaming in Europe and...
[October 5, 2005, 14:15]
Broadcom Cleans Up Noisy Mobiles
News The company says that many handset manufacturers and operators are looking at the new technology, which is being added to all Broadcom's mobile chipsets from GSM to 3G WCDMA services. M-Stream also improves voice quality on lower bit rates, which...
[February 14, 2006, 11:15]
O2 Reprimanded For 'best Network' Claims
News It said: "We concluded 'Best ever UK mobile network performance' was too wide-reaching a claim to be substantiated by merely an operators' call success rate. The advertising watchdog also told operators to be carefully of making claims about...
[November 10, 2005, 8:15]
O2 Wades Into Termination Rate Spat
News However, on Monday O2 joined T-Mobile in complaining to Ofcom about BT's refusal to accept so-called "blended" termination rates from these two operators. Separately to that, the regulator also has to resolve the existing disputes of T-Mobile and...
[February 27, 2007, 14:13]
Intel: Wi-Fi Could Have Emergency Role
News The work could help emergency call-centre operators determine the location of a cellphone; currently they can pinpoint only where a landline call was made. Carriers are trying to meet a 2005 deadline to make it possible for the US operators to...
[September 12, 2002, 14:34]
Roaming Rip-off Puts Travellers Off Phoning Home
News She said in a statement: "I call on all mobile operators to help tear down this last visible border in Europe's internal market. The Commission's price-cutting drive has been unpopular with operators, who have recently launched a series of trims to...
[November 8, 2006, 10:19]
VoIP: Not Just About Free Calls
News Brennan also said that established operators are responding to the challenge posed by companies offering wireless VoIP services. Voice operators seem to be the ones who are least excited about moving voice away from their networks - they...
[April 22, 2005, 11:45]
Ofcom Probes Mobile Roaming Rates
News Although some operators now offer simpler, unified retail tariffs, some consumers still incur substantial mobile phone bills as a result of international roaming charges," said Ofcom in a statement. Vodafone, one of the UK's five mobile operators...
[January 24, 2006, 17:10]
Mobile Industry Awaits Roaming Verdict
News To enforce such a move would mean regulating the retail cost of roaming, one facet of Reding's proposals that is bitterly opposed by mobile operators. Reports in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal suggested that Reding's opponents...
[July 11, 2006, 12:35]
