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Mobile phones: Vodafone puts up prices Vodafone has become the latest mobile phone company in the UK to raise the cost of making a call to try and claw back some of the money lost through increased regulation, with prices for its pay-as-you-go customers due to rise by a third next month. The move will heap further pain on consumers who already face a winter of financial strain as a result of increased household (...) (...) price rises come after rivals O2 and T-Mobile hiked their...telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding, but roaming calls make up just (...)
Guardian Unlimited 18-08-2008
Celebrate this Raksha Bandhan with some great mobile phones and ... The dual SIM phone 588 is a highly accessorized smartphone at Rs 8000. Its key features include two Sims working at the same time, handwriting PDA, ...
Mobiletor.com 15-08-2008
Lastminute.com UK to sell SIM4travel SIM cards Low-cost mobile roaming network SIM4travel has signed a distribution agreement with online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com in the UK. ...
Telecom Paper (subscription) 13-08-2008
Emirates presses ahead with in-flight mobiles Emirates has stated that call charges will be kept to a minimum, based on standard international roaming charges. The calls will cost around £2 per minute. ...
Telegraph.co.uk 05-08-2008
The Cost of Walled-Garden Designs ... daily Svenska Dagbladet on their editorial page yesterday writes about the EU threat to intervene at mobile roaming costs for voice, SMS and data. ...
CircleID 19-07-2008
Lenovo and Vodafone offer free 3G in the UK ... does not include international roaming). Opting for a different mobile operator could be a harder work - a matter of putting in a different SIM, ...
NetworkWorld.com 17-07-2008
France calls for mobile operators to cut SMS prices The Arcep study pointed at the prices charged by operators Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom. It said that mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that ...
Reuters 17-07-2008
Discount mobile service Congstar cuts data roaming prices Congstar will also cut the cost of GPRS roaming data for contract customers in EU countries from EUR 0.49 per 50 KB to EUR 0.19 per 100 KB. ...
Telecom Paper (subscription) 01-07-2008
Quarter of EU homes use mobiles only However, the EU has used the survey results to hit out at mobile phone companies and roaming charges, which they say are restricting Europeans from using ...
Pocket-lint.co.uk 30-06-2008
EC looks to cut mobile phone charges It suggests that consumers compare mobile phone deals and reminds people that the Eurotariff, which has helped to reduce call costs does not apply to ...
Fair Investment Company 29-06-2008
EU acts to cut mobile phone costs Last year, Ms Reding set limits on roaming charges for mobile phone calls across the EU, and the industry has a 1 July deadline to slash the cost of texts ...
BBC News 27-06-2008
EU consumers put off data roaming by high prices, lack of ... Reding has asked mobile operators to cut mobile roaming charges for text message and other data voluntarily by 01 July.
Telecom Paper (subscription) 27-06-2008
Use Wi-Fi on Select American Flights to/from JFK Users of the iPass hotspot roaming service don't have to pay extra. iPass has a deal in place with gogo so those with iPassConnect Mobile accounts won't ...
Gearlog 25-06-2008
T-Mobile UK slashes Euro data roaming costs By Natasha Lomas T-Mobile UK is the latest mobile operator to crack under the steely gaze of EC telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, and slash the price ...
Silicon.com 21-06-2008
EU telecoms commissioner may cut mobile roaming costs Viviane Reding, EU telecoms commissioner, is poised to force mobile phone operators to slash the cost of sending texts and downloading data when abroad and make further deep cuts in the caps on overseas calls. Reding, who clashed with the operators over roaming charges last year, wrote and warned their chief executives that she will be forced to intervene again if they fail (...)
Guardian Unlimited 20-06-2008
Orange introduces in-flight mobile use ... companies in the world that provides this service," Mrs Shweikeh added. The service will be available to customers with international roaming contracts.
Mobile Marketing News 19-06-2008
Orange extends its pioneering in-flight mobile phone roaming ... This service enables all Orange customers with an international roaming subscription to stay in touch with others during flights by using their handsets, ...
RedOrbit 19-06-2008
Jordan gets in-flight mobile service Mobile operator Orange has launched in-flight roaming services in Jordan, enabling Orange subscribers to use their mobile phones and smartphones to send and ...
AME Info 17-06-2008
'Lower prices' boost mobile data Price cuts and the popularity of 3G are prompting Europeans to use mobile data like never before, says a survey. The GSM Association survey shows that ...
BBC News 12-06-2008
How to save on your mobile abroad . . . She advises frequent travellers to consider "roaming costs" when choosing a provider. For example T mobile is currently the cheapest of the six major UK ...
Southern Daily Echo 11-06-2008
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