mobile roaming in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment R is for Roaming As a general trend young people only buy a fixed telephone line to gain broadband access as their lives are centred on mobility and mobile phones. The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my... [05 Aug 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment We are now roaming at 30,000 feet. I and many others I know will choose the airline that does not allow mobile voice calls. Teacher shortage IT teacher applications continue to decline Hardly surprising - the IT curriculum is crap and you end up... [03 Jul 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment R is for Roaming All calls will be routed through the plane's on-board GSM network and charged to the customer on their monthly bill as a standard international roaming call. These companies have created the in-flight system and have set up... [26 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment R is for Roaming Yet data roaming continues to be very expensive. The European Commission is threatening to regulate in this area in the same way it already has with voice roaming. Too few operators have grasped the nettle to offer data-roaming... [12 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Of course, the roaming charges don't bear thinking about. The ambitious vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount Everest. Nasa and the British National Space Centre are preparing to... [22 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment R is for Roaming Arun Sarin of Vodafone and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo are heading up the GSMA's bill, with China Mobile's Wang Jianzhou and Cisco's John Chambers rounding it off. Conway makes way for Vodafone's chief Arun Sarin - who takes the... [13 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday
Comment This was an event being held by the mobile operator body the GSM Association (GSMA), who may not be the Mighty Finn but they had promised to rustle up Viviane Reding - European Union commissioner for information society and media and witchfinder... [12 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment R is for Roaming Yet I no longer own a floppy disk or a PCMCIA card and I no longer go online using a mobile phone via IrDA or indeed a dial-up modem. The prospect of this new thinner client mobile world will thus be coloured almost entirely by... [28 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment R is for Roaming This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. So, regardless of the ups and downs ahead, tomorrow's mobile applications may be just $10bn or $20bn... [17 Dec 2007]
Viviane Reding
AS Profile This summer - to the joy of mobile users across Europe - she won her battle to force mobile operators to cut the charges for users roaming abroad - with SMS and data rates likely to be next in the firing line. [12 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis He then went on to launch and develop Celtel into a company serving millions across Africa in over a dozen countries - often with no roaming charges. In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though admittedly Dunstone has the bread-and-butter... [12 Oct 2007]
Surprise omissions and trends
AS Analysis One panellist said: "She could revolutionise the cost of mobile roaming. The Agenda Setters rankings always throw a few curve balls. New groups emerge, others fade from sight. Tony Hallett looks at who's there this year and why mega names such as... [12 Oct 2007]
At sea over convergence?
Comment The danger is that even when subscribers fail to recognise the value, they do notice the cost, especially from mobile devices and most especially while roaming overseas. Recent Quocirca research shows that roaming call costs are the most important... [21 Sep 2007]
Leader: €12 for roaming data? Could try harder
Leader At this year's CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Vodafone announced it will offer a flat-rate data plan for European roaming users - all the data you can eat, including web and email usage, for €12 per day. [15 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What I learnt in Barcelona
Comment If it was mine, or my employer's, then I suspect I would be struggling with unreliable wi-fi along with everyone else: roaming is, after all, seriously expensive for voice and unimaginably so for data. [23 Feb 2007]
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