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29 Aug 2008

British mobile users face 'unfair' roaming cost increase

Written by By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels (Telegraph.co.uk)
British mobile phone users will this weekend face a "discriminatory" nine per cent hike in roaming costs because the European Union sets compulsory price tariffs using a Euro currency base rate

June24, 2008

Nokia to buy Symbian
Written by Tarmo Virki (HELSINKI Reuters)
Nokia (NOK1V.HE:) will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian and make its software royalty-free to boost phone sales and respond to new rivals such as Google …
Symbian's software is used in two-thirds of smartphones -- handsets with computer-like capabilities …

…Currently, Symbian's closest rival is Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, which has just 13 percent of the market

May 07, 2008

European Commission Considers SMS Roaming Price Cap
Written by Paul Mellet (IDC news at NewYorkTimes - nytimes.com)
Caps on the price of sending an SMS from a mobile phone while abroad came a step closer Wednesday, when the European Commission launched a two-month public consultation into its rules on mobile phone roaming charges...

...A report published by the European Regulators Group in January showed that on average across the E.U., users had to pay €5.24 per megabyte of data and €0.29 for an SMS sent while roaming in the third quarter of 2007...

Dec 14, 2007

Canadian Man's Phone Bill Costs More Than A BMW M5

Written by Eric Zeman (Informationweek.com)
Some poor Calgary man thought the $10 unlimited mobile browser plan he subscribed to meant he could tether his phone to his laptop and download movies. So he was rather shocked when he received a phone bill for $85,000 in the mail -- more than the price tag of one of Germany's finest sports sedans.

05 Dec, 2007

SMS goes from sterngth to strength

Fifteen years old and going strong. Written by Ian Williams (Vnunet.com)

Text messaging services will continue to grow, despite the technology being over 15 years old. This was the unanimous declaration from a panel of industry experts from Vodafone, O2, Airwide Solutions and Ovum at an event to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the first text message.

October 10, 2007

Eurotariff rates (EU Roaming rates) : overview

According to the Roaming Regulation, mobile operators should have offered customers a Eurotariff by 30 July 2007. This tariff shall be activated no later than one month after the receipt of the customer's request. Roaming charges should not exceed €0.49 for making calls and €0.24 for receiving calls abroad (excluding VAT).

Summer, 2007

Tariffs : Roaming Around Europe

From European Commission-Information Society Web Site

Since summer 2007, operators have had to apply the new roaming regulation around Europe. Some of them chose to go further by applying even better prices. You can now compare the previous tariffs with the new ones in place. Check out the September 2007 Eurotariffs and see how much you save!

What were people paying for international roaming before the roaming regulation? These pages give you some typical roaming charges faced by subscribers in each EU country, giving you an idea of what you were paying before.

From the Press

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