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3 to reinstate voice and text roaming charges
Blog Comment Oh b*llocks. Guess which networks I just transferred from and to?
[May 18, 2009, 20:01]
3 to reinstate voice and text roaming charges
Blog The mobile operator 3 is to reinstate its roaming surcharges, just as rival Vodafone drops its equivalent charges for the summer. The operator has offered no explanation as to why the roaming charges are being reinstated, other than to note that 3...
[May 18, 2009, 17:42]
T-Mobile to raise voice-roaming charges
Blog Voice-roaming charges have been steadily falling for the last two years, following price caps set by the European Commission. Large companies on the Corporate Plan or Business 1-Plan will not be affected by the rise in voice-roaming charges...
[May 26, 2009, 17:28]
O2 extends voice roaming price cuts
News Mike Short, vice president of research and development at O2 and chairman of the Mobile Data Association, told ZDNet UK last Tuesday that data roaming was "very complex [due to] understanding different networks and how they justify their per...
[February 12, 2007, 8:09]
EC lowers cap on voice-roaming prices
News The price reductions are due to the EU's Roaming Regulation, adopted by the Commission in 2007 to "curb the excessive roaming charges consumers had to pay for roaming calls. The European Commission has lowered the price ceiling for roaming voice...
[August 29, 2008, 17:17]
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
Talkback The teleco's are under pressure from Brussels to reduce their existing roaming charges on voice as these are currently considered excessive in the opinion of the European parliament.http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/roaming...
[November 2, 2005, 12:08]
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]
O2 breathes life into data roaming
Leader In May last year, after a long and acrimonious fight, the European Commission forced mobile operators to cut up to 70 percent off voice-roaming charges within the EU. Secondly, O2 has decided to cut its intra-Europe data-roaming charges by roughly...
[January 15, 2008, 14:25]
EU approves cap on text and data roaming
News The new rules, which will come into force on 1 July, also call for voice-roaming charges to drop further, beyond the caps that were brought into force in 2007. The data-roaming figure is a wholesale price cap for inter-operator charges, though, so...
[April 22, 2009, 16:49]
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. Despite ongoing pressure from the European Commission over voice-roaming charges, O2 told ZDNet UK that the reason it is dropping...
[March 14, 2007, 12:21]
EC to cap text-roaming costs
News Tuesday's announcement comes two years after restrictions were placed on roaming voice-call charges. The Commission also warned that similar restrictions could be placed on data-roaming charges if operators do not voluntarily cut prices.
[July 15, 2008, 16:09]
EC will cap mobile-roaming charges
News The regulation will apply both to data- and voice-roaming charges. And, while mobile operators have started to make drastic reductions in voice-roaming charges, data costs remain high. Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding...
[March 16, 2007, 16:42]
EC threatens operators over data roaming
News As a result, the Parliament may make Commissioner Reding's proposed caps on voice roaming charges even more restrictive for operators than was initially intended, by as much as 10 euro cents a minute.
[February 2, 2007, 15:11]
European data-roaming caps agreed
News Roaming voice-call charges were already capped in 2007, with that cap being lowered to 46 cents per minute last August. Roaming text-message charges will be capped, from 1 July this year, at 11 cents per SMS.
[March 25, 2009, 15:23]
O2 cuts data-roaming rates
News The European Commission, which last year scored a victory over operators when it forced them to cut their voice charges for roaming customers, had warned in July that data and SMS roaming would be next.
[January 14, 2008, 15:03]
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]
Talk as long as you like, but carry a big stick
Leader But while O2 may have been prepared to move on voice, data roaming continues to be scandalously expensive. The news that O2 has decided to stop charging its customers excessive fees for roaming is undoubtedly an important step forward for the...
[October 19, 2006, 15:00]
Ryanair announces in-flight mobile
News When asked about the cost of the service, Ryanair said that it would "mirror" international roaming charges, even on national flights. These roaming rates can vary wildly between operators and countries.
[August 30, 2006, 14:55]
T-Mobile slashes data-roaming charges
News Voice-roaming charges have started to tumble after the European Commission tabled proposals last July to force operators to reduce their prices. T-Mobile is cutting its data-roaming charges by 60 percent, starting this Friday.
[February 13, 2007, 9:07]
3 ditches all roaming charges
News One place at which those waves are aimed is certainly the European Commission, where 3 — a relative newcomer to the European market — has been lobbying heavily for the regulation of wholesale roaming rates (the charges levied between operators to...
[January 16, 2007, 9:54]
