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Roaming Rip-offs Set To Continue
News Mobile usage is increasingly dynamic, and tariff information changes depending on where you are in the world," said Rip Gerber, managing director for e-commerce at Intellisync. Businesses can look forward to high and confusing roaming rates when...
[January 25, 2006, 12:10]
No Defence For Roaming Charges
Leader However, anyone who thought that the days of roaming rip-offs were over is in for a shock. Mobile operators appear keen to justify these rip-offs on the grounds that users should be grateful for the opportunity to use a mobile phone abroad.
[April 28, 2006, 15:45]
Europe To Fight Mobile Roaming Fees
News Media, held a meeting with national regulators on Wednesday afternoon in Brussels, at which she demanded action to clamp down on roaming rip-offs. Reding is expected to announce on Thursday that roaming charges should be capped at the level of a...
[February 8, 2006, 16:55]
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]
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]
Viviane Reding Nominated For Internet Villain Award
News Simon Watkin, the public face of the Home Office's work on the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, is one of the nominees. Despite her pioneering work, Viviane Reding, the commissioner for information society and media who...
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
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]
EC Will Cap Mobile-roaming Charges
News Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, has confirmed that telecoms ministers agreed on Thursday at a meeting in Brussels that there must be a cap both on wholesale and retail roaming charges, and more transparency on pricing.
[March 16, 2007, 16:42]
MEPs Agree Roaming Caps
News Yesterday saw MEPs agree controversial roaming caps that could be introduced across the EU from this summer. The European Parliament has finally agreed the maximum pricing mobile operators will be able to charge customers for making phone calls...
[May 17, 2007, 9:40]
European Parliament Set To Approve Roaming Cuts
News Two influential EU committees have voted to approve legislation to drastically reduce European roaming charges. On Thursday, the European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, and the Culture and Education Committee...
[March 22, 2007, 16:11]
Lords Shows Support For Roaming Price Cap
News The Lords committee charged with investigating roaming costs has announced its backing for a price cap on mobile calls made from abroad. In an interim statement ahead of the formal publication of its findings, the committee said it backed the...
[March 13, 2007, 9:28]
France Telecom Threatens EC Over Roaming Clampdown
News France Telecom has warned that it might stop buying equipment from European manufacturers unless the EC's proposals on mobile roaming regulation are toned down. The EC is pushing for dramatic cuts in the roaming rates which travellers must pay when...
[December 19, 2006, 16:01]
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. On Tuesday the BEUC, a European consumer rights group, accused operators of...
[February 23, 2007, 11:49]
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]
Regulators Won't Act Over Retail Roaming Charges
News European telecoms regulators are continuing to argue that no intervention is necessary to curb retail mobile roaming prices, a policy that appears to put them at odds with the European Commission. The European Regulatory Group announced on Thursday...
[May 12, 2006, 16:55]
EU Commissioners Clash Over Mobile Roaming
News A row is brewing in the European Commission over plans to force mobile operators to slash their roaming charges, as discussions move into their political phase. That said, the last few months have seen operators racing to pre-empt any regulation by...
[July 6, 2006, 11:00]
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]
Operators Call Foul On EU Roaming Charge Initiative
News 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 vowing to fight the proposals tooth and nail. The EU put forward its propoal, through the European...
[March 29, 2006, 15:45]
Orange Defends Roaming Rates
News On Tuesday, ZDNet UK raised the case of Joanne Lancaster, an Orange customer who used data roaming for the first time in France last December while on holiday. Lancaster said that she had only used the roaming service once, to check out some film...
[February 2, 2006, 16:35]
Mobile Industry Defends Roaming Pricing
News The body that represents the interests of mobile operators has launched a pre-emptive strike ahead of an expected announcement from the European Commission this week on plans to tackle excessive roaming charges.
[March 27, 2006, 17:25]
