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The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Arthur B. 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. The result is our Mazingo ICED SIP based Dual WiFi / GSM Cell phone and which...
[May 31, 2006, 23:15]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Here is the solution to high 'roaming' costs and to receiving Data Downloads .worldwide. If you spend more than $500 per month on Roaming just one month's ectra expenditure buys the Cell Phone and your communications bills will never exceed $80...
[May 27, 2006, 22:12]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback The costs of roaming are nothing short of the biggest rip-off of all time, even more so when companies that are owned by a single entity like Orange and France Telecom and Vodafone and Telecel, and charge each country operation as if they are not...
[November 4, 2005, 9:55]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Their is another rip to look at here, I was in a country that didnt have GPRS and my phone automatically backed off to the backup wap number which is a normal telephone number , when this is dialed you get billed by the minute rather than the...
[November 2, 2005, 16:38]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Please tell me that the UK didn't figure this out just recently! There's little difference with getting 'a great offer' by phone or regular mail only to find out later that you're paying ten times as much as need be if you cared to look into...
[November 1, 2005, 21:23]
Roaming rip-off puts travellers off phoning home
News The high cost of roaming is putting Europeans off using their mobiles abroad, according to research from the European Commission, which found that eight out of 10 European travellers have been deterred from phoning home due to price.
[November 8, 2006, 10:19]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
News INVESTIGATION for an iTunes download: The real cost of roaming Mobile phone operators are stinging GPRS and 3G users with roaming charges of up to £20 a megabyte. Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
[November 1, 2005, 17:05]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of the intriguing aspects of the mobile-roaming rip-off is the way it has exposed a fundamental flaw in regulation. But that means farragos such as mobile-roaming overcharging get free reign — nobody had responsibility for sorting it out, until...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
The criminal costs of mobile data
Talkback I find it ironic that the pages outlining the rip off charges of roaming mobile internet sports numerous adverts from the actual company who's practice is being slammed.
[November 1, 2005, 15:31]
Orange roaming rates claim another victim
News Lancaster has become the latest victim of the great roaming rip-off scandal, which was highlighted by the case of another Orange customer, Roger Steare, who found himself facing an unexpected bill for £769 when he returned from a European trip.
[January 31, 2006, 17:00]
Mobile-roaming cuts hailed success
News The European Commission has hailed its efforts to reduce rip-off mobile-roaming rates as a success, claiming consumer prices having fallen by up to 60 percent since new regulations were introduced. The EU Roaming Regulation came into force in the...
[October 8, 2007, 12:14]
EC slams roaming scams
News The EC has hit back at mobile operators charging rip-off rates for international roaming. which lets consumers compare sample roaming prices around the European Union. For example, the site reveals that a four-minute peak-rate call from Malta to...
[October 5, 2005, 14:15]
EU approves cap on text and data roaming
News Today's vote marks the definite end of the roaming rip-off in Europe," telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding said in a European Commission statement. The cost of sending text messages and downloading data will fall for people roaming between...
[April 22, 2009, 16:49]
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]
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
Talkback This lasted long enough for me to call Orange and rant at the rep about the blatant rip-off that I felt I was being subjected to. I, too, have fallen victim to exorbitant data chares whilst roaming.and in my humble opinion, despite raging profusely...
[March 25, 2006, 1:51]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Leader For mobile operators who would like to survive flat rate broadband wireless networks, the way forward is equally clear: don't rip us off. This is especially true when roaming abroad, when — of course — mobile data is at its most useful.
[November 1, 2005, 13:10]
Extortion on the waves
Blog I have been at parties with mobile phone executives who openly laugh about the rip-off of data roaming charges. It gets worse, of course, when you consider what the extra costs to T-Mobile are for data roaming.
[September 27, 2009, 18:46]
A plug for sanity
Leader Instead, this tiny point of low technology has been behind the most enduring and annoying consumer rip-off of recent years. Now, about those data-roaming charges. If the end result was just a matter of ripping off the punters, then caveat emptor...
[September 26, 2007, 17:27]
Reverse the charges
Leader There is an unanswerable case for Ofcom and its counterparts in other countries to move swiftly to end this rip-off. The decision that Orange is within its rights to charge what it likes for data roaming is not welcome.
[January 10, 2006, 14:00]
