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CDMA2000 International Roaming: A Status Report
White Papers The CDMA2000 community is rapidly expanding its international roaming capabilities and services to meet customers' needs; CDMA2000 operators offer roaming in key markets worldwide and is leading the way in providing roaming services across...
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Mobile operators accused of international roaming rip-off
News The regulator published details of its investigation into international roaming charges today (Wednesday). UK prices for pre-pay international roaming are much higher than for customers in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy," said the watchdog.
[November 7, 2001, 10:04]
T-Mobile and Vodafone slash roaming charges
News Mobile phone network operators Vodafone and T-Mobile both announced on Monday that they are lowering their international roaming charges, a move that won them a tentatively positive response from the European Commission.
[May 8, 2006, 12:55]
O2 soothes Ireland's roaming woes
News Mobile operator O2 has taken action to help some mobile phone users from the Republic of Ireland avoid paying international roaming charges when they cross into Northern Ireland. There is growing outrage over the international roaming fees levied...
[February 9, 2006, 12:10]
Roaming rip-offs set to continue
News The costs for international roaming are difficult to predict because of different international carrier charges," said Mike Short, vice-president of research and development at O2. Communications regulator Ofcom has recognised that some users are...
[January 25, 2006, 12:10]
CallMe J2ME
Downloads A way to save money on international calls when roaming. The CallMe personal callback application saves you money on international calls when roaming by having your contacts call you from their home network at the lowest possible cost.
[September 13, 2005, 8:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The congratulations are due because the company has abolished an international roaming charge and there is no way such an act should go unmarked: all the rest of my bad-tempered huffing and puffing is because it's a wee runt of a tariff: contract...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said on Tuesday that he is concerned the international roaming charges levied by mobile operators are a rip off. The Commission's sector inquiry into international roaming prices has shown that mobile...
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
EC praises 3 roaming cuts
News This announcement shows that there is room for reducing current prices for international roaming, as was proposed by the Commission," a spokesperson for commissioner Viviane Reding, who has long been pushing for operators to cut their roaming...
[January 17, 2007, 15:25]
Orange promises clearer corporate pricing
News Orange Business Advance is a bundling scheme that will include pricing for UK and international roaming calls, text and data within a single tariff that can be shared between up to 200 multiple users.
[March 15, 2006, 13:10]
Reverse the charges
Leader You can always move to a different one, it continues - but oddly, fails to mention that they all charge enormous rates for international data roaming. The decision that Orange is within its rights to charge what it likes for data roaming is not...
[January 10, 2006, 14:00]
Regulators won't act over retail roaming charges
News The group will also set-up and maintain an up-to-date index of retail international roaming charges. European telecoms regulators are continuing to argue that no intervention is necessary to curb retail mobile roaming prices, a policy that appears...
[May 12, 2006, 16:55]
Ofcom backs transparency in roaming debate
News Ofcom also highlighted the issue of transparency, saying that it supports initiatives to increase consumer awareness and transparency of international roaming prices" and that it was actively involved in the European Regulators Group's work on...
[November 16, 2005, 17:00]
Hong Kong awaits New Year 3G
News The services will include international roaming where the Hutchison Whampoa Group works, presently including Britain, Italy and Australia. International roaming will include video transmission from both sides.
[December 23, 2003, 8:55]
EC threatens operators over data roaming
News The operator 3 recently cancelled all roaming surcharges for voice, SMS and data for customers travelling within the coverage of 3's international networks. Commissioner Reding said the move "shows that there is room for reducing current prices for...
[February 2, 2007, 15:11]
Operators call foul on EU roaming charge initiative
News Around 70 percent of our roaming calls are made by customers using International Traveller Service. 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...
[March 29, 2006, 15:45]
EC cool on data-roaming regulation
News However, Nick White, the executive vide president of the International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG), said business users still perceived "very little progress" with data roaming prices. Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on...
[July 21, 2008, 17:17]
Truphone - mobile VoIP
Downloads With Truphone there aren't any roaming charges, as long as you're connected to a WiFi network you'll always pay the same low rate to make calls on your mobile. And for advanced users it's pretty darn handy when you're...
[December 1, 2006, 6:00]
VeriSign wants a piece of wireless mobile
News With this addition, VeriSign will help carrier customers provide GSM subscribers with voice roaming ability while travelling internationally. VeriSign has also developed an application that allows seamless roaming between wireless data networks.
[February 25, 2004, 9:15]
BT's Wi-Fi voucher strangeness
Blog BT has announced a new roaming voucher for its business traveller customers, based largely on a tie-in with the soon-to-go-live iBahn network of hotel hotspots. It may offer relatively cheap surfing minutes (especially when compared with data...
[October 31, 2007, 8:56]
