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Spectrum Auction Could Mean Cheaper Mobile Calls
News Such networks could be cheaper than commercial mobile networks and - unlike similar ideas such as BT's Fusion - will work with standard GSM handsets without the need for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or extra software features.
[August 1, 2005, 13:55]
Regulator Wants Cheaper Fixed-line-to-mobile Calls
News Calls from fixed lines to mobiles could become cheaper if proposals by the telecoms regulator come into force. But calls from fixed lines to mobiles should become cheaper. Termination rates refer to the charges levied by one operator on another...
[September 14, 2006, 13:30]
Regulator Wants Cheaper Fixed-line-to-mobile Calls
Talkback It's a good idea and i really doubt it even costs 1 pence to connect the call to a mobile phone! Still, it should be down to market processes to determine price not regulator intervention. Bad move ofcom (and i dont call mobiles!
[September 15, 2006, 16:42]
BT Resists Calls For Cheaper Business Broadband
News Business broadband prices need to fall by a third in order to encourage many more small firms to sign up for a high-speed Internet connection, Datamonitor claimed on Thursday. But BT -- which launched its Business Broadband Advanced SDSL service...
[February 27, 2004, 11:25]
Chancellor Calls For Cheaper Net Access
News That is a cheaper and more attractive option than waiting for unbundling," he said. Internet access costs must to be halved in order to kick-start the e-commerce revolution, chancellor Gordon Brown claimed on Wednesday in a speech to financiers.
[February 17, 2000, 9:04]
Critics: Net Dialup Price Cuts Mean More In BT Coffers
News Cheaper Net calls negotiated between large ISPs and telcos are benefiting BT far more than consumers, according to the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT). As the government promises cheaper access costs and critics accuse Oftel and BT...
[September 28, 1999, 17:23]
Callserve Net Phone Offers 60 Percent Off BT Prices
News A UK startup has said that it will offer cheaper long-distance calls to UK consumers by using Internet technology. Callserve is billing itself as the first European Internet telephony provider, claiming that it will offer long-distance telephone...
[September 24, 1999, 16:12]
BT Kicks Off Phone Price War
News BT announced on Wednesday that it is cutting the cost of phone calls, in an attempt to ward off rival operators who claim to offer cheaper services. These are cheaper than its currrent offerings and eliminate the pricing distinction between local...
[April 2, 2003, 12:26]
Panama Rejigs VoIP Tax
News VoIP calls are typically cheaper for customers than those connected via privately owned telephone networks. Panama is set to introduce a tax that treats traditional and Internet phone calls the same way, a "technology agnostic" regulation that has...
[January 21, 2004, 15:20]
Startup Aims To Inject Zing Into Net Telephony
News BOPS, a 4-year-old startup, has developed a chip design that will allow telecommunications service providers to handle more phone calls over the Net at a cheaper price, said BOPS chief executive Carl Schlachte.
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
Screaming Net: Localtel Who?
News An Oftel spokesman said cheaper Internet calls were not the intention of the scheme but were "a nice side effect". Campaigners for cheaper Internet calls welcomed screaming.net as the first step towards fairer telecommunications.
[May 4, 1999, 8:22]
VoIP Threatens To Outsmart Backend
News Calls are handed off to traditional circuit-switched networks at either end, but make long-distance jumps using cheaper packet switching, or IP, technology. Broadband providers with dreams of nationwide voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services...
[December 29, 2003, 13:20]
Jane Wakefield: BT Admits It's Good To Surf
News BT's big excuse has always been that it would just love to make Net calls cheaper but it can't because that would be unfair to its voice-only customers. When it signed its Calls and Access agreement with BT -- enabling it to offer users free...
[October 29, 1999, 13:26]
VoIP Enters The Ascendancy
News Industry executives concede that selling voice calls over a vast network of circuit switches has become too costly to make sense in the long run. The prospects of the crumbling circuit-switched US phone business have fallen so low that AT&T, which...
[February 3, 2005, 15:10]
Google: Mobile Operators Want To Block Our Apps
News It's a technology which provides only one thing — cheaper calls — and we can provide cheaper calls very easily by cutting prices," Bobby Rao, Vodafone corporate strategy director, told journalists and analysts on Wednesday.We think the best way to...
[November 24, 2006, 11:43]
Putting Broadband To Work
News Alternatively, you can make calls through your broadband connection to a third party, such as Callserve (www.callserve.com), which can be cheaper for international calls but won't accept incoming calls.
[November 6, 2002, 12:29]
Roaming Cuts May Lead To Coverage Black Spots
News However, some industry pundits believe cheaper roaming rates will mean operators simply pass on the charges to users in the form of more expensive calls at home. The GSMA added it expects 20 percent of roaming and 40 percent of incoming calls to...
[April 24, 2007, 15:47]
Vint Cerf Hears VoIP Calling
News Already, MCI's network is being transformed into one that uses the Internet Protocol to route calls, not traditional phone switches. As a result, it can already do much more than just make phone calls.
[September 11, 2003, 10:00]
AOL Top Brass Tears Into 'rip-off' BT
News Said Schmidt: "We are looking to the government to remove the obstacle of pay-per-minute access which was invented for voice calls only. He argues that while the government enthuses over the Internet revolution "telephone calls are too high.
[October 19, 1999, 16:38]
No Defence For Roaming Charges
Leader It's certainly hard to imagine anyone keeping a straight face when they argue that: "Yes, we could make things cheaper, but then users would have to pay more for their service. The European Commission wants mobile phone calls within the EU to cost...
[April 28, 2006, 15:45]
