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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Operators hit back at EC data-roaming threat
News The mobile industry has hit back at European Commission threats to introduce regulation to force data-roaming price cuts. The GSM Association (GSMA), which represents mobile operators, says prices are already falling and that any move to intervene...
[February 12, 2008, 8:00]
T-Mobile vows to stop 'screwing' data-roaming customers
News T-Mobile has promised to cut its overseas data-roaming charges later this year, after one of its senior executives told conference delegates that it is "screwing" its customers at the moment. Discussion moderator Chris Lewis, a senior analyst with...
[July 4, 2006, 15:05]
European data-roaming caps agreed
News From July 2009, the wholesale per-megabyte rate for roaming mobile-data use across Europe will be capped at €1 (93p) plus VAT. The wholesale rate for mobile data roaming refers to the amount Operator A can charge Operator B when B's customer uses...
[March 25, 2009, 15:23]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
T-Mobile slashes data-roaming charges
News T-Mobile is cutting its data-roaming charges by 60 percent, starting this Friday. It added that it intends to cut data-roaming rates for its consumer customers "in time for the summer holidays". T-Mobile's head of corporate communications, Robin O...
[February 13, 2007, 9:07]
