Mobile Operators Accused Of International Roaming Rip-off
News Oftel has accused the UK's mobile phone operators of taking advantage of their pre-pay customers and overcharging them when they use their phone abroad. Kenny believes that the UK's mobile operators will be forced to charge less for international...
[November 7, 2001, 10:04]
NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Part 1
Blog Unfortunately, our law makers and officials of the NCC appear unruffled by the rip off being perpetrated against Nigerians by the mobile phone network operators. The manner in which some of them rip off their customers’ phone credits leaves very...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
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 European Commission is planning to take action against some mobile phone network operators...
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
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]
Mobile Garden Walls Come Tumbling Down
Leader Next to web-based email, text messages look like a rip-off. By restricting customer access to servers, mobile operators profit from expensive voice calls, text and multimedia messages and Web access. The mobile operators, though, still want to...
[November 24, 2006, 14:28]
Sendo Unveils New Handset Plans
News Sendo later filed a lawsuit accusing Microsoft of a conspiracy to rip off Sendo's technology and give it to low-cost Taiwanese contract manufacturers, a charge Microsoft denies. Sendo, a start-up which focusses on making customiseable handsets...
[February 14, 2003, 6:05]
O2 To Cut Data-roaming Charges
News And, while mobile operators have started to make drastic reductions in voice-roaming charges, data costs remain high. The European Commission has threatened action against the operators, but O2 denied that the pressure caused the change.
[March 14, 2007, 12:21]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
News Mobile professionals now have a choice of four 3G mobile data solutions from UK network operators. Mobile phone operators are stinging GPRS and 3G users with roaming charges of up to £20 a megabyte. Short term greed means long term harm for mobile...
[November 1, 2005, 17:05]
Regulators Won't Act Over Retail Roaming Charges
News European Commissioner Viviane Reding recently announced plans to impose regulation on the amount that mobile network operators can charge customers for using phone abroad. The ERG, which includes Ofcom in its membership, has continued to welcome...
[May 12, 2006, 16:55]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback I got so annoyed at the way we are treated by all Mobile Network Operators, I decided to do something about it on behalf of all of us that 'Roam' a great deal. Arthur B. The result is our Mazingo ICED SIP based Dual WiFi / GSM Cell phone and which...
[May 31, 2006, 23:15]
Operators Blame Roaming Charges On Handset Subsidies
News Mobile operators have denied claims that roaming fees within Europe are too high, suggesting that the charges are necessary to recoup the cost of subsidising handsets. Mobile phone operators are twisting the truth; from the beginning they have...
[February 23, 2007, 11:49]
