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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]
Wi-Fi Week: Roaming in the dark
News Roaming outside the UK is even more problematic, and just as in the early days of mobile phones you shouldn't rely on it unless you have an explicit promise from a service provider. It's a safe prediction that universal roaming will eventually...
[January 29, 2004, 10:40]
Roaming Dynamics in GPRS and Beyond: Options and Strategies
White Papers Roaming is a service that allows a subscriber of one operator to use the services of another operator when inside the latter's coverage area. Over 20000 roaming agreements have made the GSM service available around the world; the same is expected...
[March 28, 2005, 3:00]
Roaming and Service Management in Public Wireless Networks Using an Innovative Policy Management Architecture
White Papers This paper describes RSM-WISP, a new management architecture designed for WISPs to facilitate the implementation and management of the services they offer at the access side of the WLAN, and to manage roaming contracts between WISPs.
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Roaming at low cost with WiFi
Talkback The solution to low cost roaming is already available, just buy a dual SIP WiFi / GSM Handset. Use WiFi hotspots to make and receive calls and only use GSM when you are out of range of a hotspot. Also you can easily download your emails and Video...
[July 19, 2007, 17:58]
Game Analysis: Roaming Agreements
White Papers Roaming is a service that allows a subscriber of one operator to use the services of another operator when inside the latter? This paper concentrates on GPRS roaming though roaming is important also in GSM voice, SMS, circuit switched data, EDGE...
[June 28, 2004, 3:15]
Roaming Range: Understanding Wireless Headset Performance in the Real World
White Papers The distance that the headset and base station can connect with acceptable voice quality is called the roaming range. Major manufacturers of wireless headsets build their products around industry standards, making the performance relatively similar...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Roaming cuts may lead to coverage black spots
News The GSM Association, the trade body representing the mobile industry, believes impending cuts in roaming rates will see some customers plunged into coverage black spots. According to the association, 25 percent of roaming traffic will become...
[April 24, 2007, 15:47]
Roaming rip-offs set to continue
News Businesses can look forward to high and confusing roaming rates when employees access mobile voice and data services abroad for some time to come, experts said on Tuesday. The costs for international roaming are difficult to predict because of...
[January 25, 2006, 12:10]
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]
Roaming charges to be cut at last
News Mobile roaming charges in Europe will drop, starting on 30 June when the new EU Roaming Regulation comes into force. EU telecom commissioner Viviane Reding said in a statement: "At last Europeans can breathe a sigh of relief as the EU Roaming...
[June 27, 2007, 8:32]
Roaming of Advanced Telecom Services Through Semantic Annotations
White Papers This paper addresses the seamless service access with specific focus on roaming of advanced telecom services. Telecom networks provide voice and data connectivity in other countries, but advanced service roaming as e.g.location is not yet in place.
[August 7, 2007, 2:30]
Roaming legislation inches closer
Blog Viv Reding's proposed legislation to put a serious cap on roaming charges passed another stage today, as it was OK'd by the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament. We're not doing a story proper on this one, as it...
[April 12, 2007, 17:03]
Roaming Honeypots for Mitigating Service-Level Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers The paper proposes roaming honeypots, a mechanism that allows the locations of honeypots to be unpredictable, continuously changing, and disguised within a server pool. The paper utilizes the roaming honeypots scheme to mitigate the effects of...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Vodafone, roaming and the €60 beer
Blog The world of European mobile communications was not rocked to its very foundations this week, as 3 announced a £1.25/MB data roaming deal followed by Vodafone offering up £5 per diem/25MB max. Moble data roaming charges are fantastic.
[June 30, 2009, 16:38]
Roaming - all or nothing?
Blog Now, before Our Viv managed to get the operators to drop their voice roaming rates, that would have been the reason. The operators have now cut their voice roaming rates, which should encourage people to use their phones abroad.
[June 9, 2008, 17:54]
Bumpy road ahead for Wi-Fi roaming
News On other technology fronts, some wireless hotspots providers in the US like iPass and Boingo Wireless have already attempted to tackle wireless roaming. However, experts say that the dream of seamless hot spot roaming will stay a dream for some...
[March 18, 2003, 10:58]
Mobile operators 'at odds' over roaming fees
Talkback Roaming call rates almost entirely go to cover interconnect charges that mobile operators charge each other so, in the end, there is hardly no margin left for the mobile operator. If roaming charges are to go down for the benefit of end-customers...
[March 25, 2006, 8:17]
Mobile operators 'at odds' over roaming fees
Talkback Roaming charges are set between the operators. If they charge each other high interconnect fees, the they all benefit as the customer ends up paying for it. However, I doubt that high interconnect fees apply in every case.
[March 26, 2006, 10:31]
Ofcom probes mobile roaming rates
News Communications regulator Ofcom announced on Tuesday that it has begun examining the mobile roaming fees that UK mobile users must pay when they use their phones abroad. The investigation into the UK's wholesale mobile roaming market is part of a...
[January 24, 2006, 17:10]
