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Data roaming hell - what can we do ?
Blog This is just a friday snippit about what can we do with data roaming charges on smart phones. A recent Euro business trip ended with a heft roaming data charge of over £65 for Vodafone, just for checking email and not downloading any attachments.
[October 10, 2008, 14:09]
Ofcom: Data-roaming charges 'bad for businesses'
News Ofcom chief Ed Richards has claimed that unreasonable mobile data-roaming costs could have an adverse impact on businesses which increasingly rely on mobile connectivity. He also called attention to the "high" cost of sending a text message from...
[January 30, 2008, 11:44]
European Commission: Data roaming is next
News Fresh from its victory over the issue of voice-roaming costs, the European Commission has again warned mobile operators that they could be forced to cut data-roaming charges. Some operators' data-roaming charges have fallen somewhat recently, but...
[July 19, 2007, 17:06]
Roaming data stirs up controversy
News A Web site has voluntarily removed information it posted about the roaming plans of Verizon Wireless customers, which some believe showed the carrier's coverage area is shrinking. According to messages on the chat board some participants noted that...
[August 16, 2002, 15:43]
Orange cuts price of voice and data roaming
News Mobile operator Orange has added new, cheaper roaming offers for voice and data for customers travelling in Europe. Earlier this year, European information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding threatened the mobile industry with regulation...
[May 21, 2008, 8:45]
O2 to cut data-roaming charges
News O2 is to cut its data-roaming rates, in a move that may placate some of its business customers enraged over the traditionally high charges. Data-roaming charges typically are several pounds per megabyte of data, and are structured in such a way...
[March 14, 2007, 12:21]
3 disables data roaming to avoid bill shock
News The mobile operator 3 has removed the default roaming capability on its mobile broadband services, saying it needs to protect its customers from excessive data-roaming charges. Customers who want to use data while abroad in other European countries...
[July 8, 2008, 12:50]
Global 3G data roaming comes closer
News To truly be mobile, a technology needs to provide a subscriber with access not only anytime and anywhere in their home market, but also enable global roaming. From now on, all IP Wireless' modems will operate at both 1900MHz and 2010MHz, which the...
[May 12, 2004, 18:15]
EU approves cap on text and data roaming
News The cost of sending text messages and downloading data will fall for people roaming between European Union countries, after the European Parliament voted through proposals for new price caps on Wednesday.
[April 22, 2009, 16:49]
T-Mobile: We must do more on data roaming
News A T-Mobile executive has conceded that the operator needs to do more to improve its data-roaming pricing. However, he went on to admit that his network "needs to do more" to match the surcharge-free data roaming introduced recently by rival 3.
[January 31, 2007, 15:31]
T-Mobile G1 could be data-roaming nightmare
Blog It looks like the phone just kept on pinging, though, and he got hit with more than $100 in data roaming charges. A US reader of theirs wrote in to say he had visited the UK with his G1, having thought he'd disabled all data connectivity.
[December 4, 2008, 12:25]
EC threatens operators over data roaming
News Mobile operators have been given just a few weeks to lower their data-roaming tariffs, after the European Commission threatened them with further regulation. According to a source close to the issue, if operators don't act soon then restrictions on...
[February 2, 2007, 15:11]
Ofcom won't act over data roaming rates
News After voicing concern last year over the cost of data roaming abroad with a 3G card, telecommunications watchdog Ofcom has now said it has no plans to intervene to reduce these high costs because the market is in its infancy.
[January 12, 2006, 10:55]
T-Mobile slashes data roaming rates
Blog We'll be writing a full story on this shortly, but news has just come through that T-Mobile's cut its data roaming rates by 80 percent. Funny, you'd never guess that July 1 was the deadline set by Viviane Reding for operators to cut their data...
[June 20, 2008, 13:07]
T-Mobile cuts data roaming fees by 80 percent
News T-Mobile has announced a cut of 80 percent in its European data-roaming charges, in time for the 1 July deadline imposed on operators by the European Commission. Information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding told operators in February...
[June 20, 2008, 17:39]
More on that O2 data-roaming cut
Blog Needless to say, when we learned that O2 was to slash its charges for data-roaming, one of the first organisations we called was the European Commission. However, on this precise case, the Commission has not discussed with Telefonica/O2 on its...
[January 16, 2008, 16:06]
EC: Cut data-roaming costs or face regulation
News The European Commission has threatened to introduce regulation if mobile operators fail to bring down mobile data-roaming costs voluntarily by July this year. The Commission also wants all mobile operators to offer "at least one interesting EU...
[February 11, 2008, 13:46]
O2 cuts data-roaming rates
News O2 has significantly cut its data-roaming prices within Europe. The European Commission, which last year scored a victory over operators when it forced them to cut their voice charges for roaming customers, had warned in July that data and SMS...
[January 14, 2008, 15:03]
The EC's position on data roaming
Blog There's a major review of such things (mercifully including voice roaming) going on at the EC, y'know, although data roaming is conspicuously absent from the draft. So when senior carrier execs admit they're "screwing" their customers on data...
[October 19, 2006, 16:43]
T-Mobile G1 could be data-roaming nightmare
Blog Comment I took my UK G1 to the US recently, and had data roaming turned off for the entire trip. I never turned on data roaming on and remember the WLAN symbol for entire download - so how could this be? Ask t-mobile to disable data roaming on the SIM...
[December 11, 2008, 16:16]
