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RSS roaming eu'Yes' vote for roaming text message price cap
News The cost of sending text messages and downloading data will fall for people roaming between European Union countries, after the European Parliament voted through proposals for new price caps on Wednesday. [23 Apr 2009]
Cheaper texts abroad? European Parliament says 'yes'
News The Commission wants to see consumers pay no more than 11 cents, excluding VAT, per SMS when roaming in the EU outside their home country. A proposal for a European Union cap on roaming... [12 Mar 2009]
Europe-wide wireless broadband on the way
News It follows calls by the European Commission yesterday to cut mobile data roaming charges in Europe. EU politicians have backed measures to help create a wireless broadband service that could work across... [24 Sep 2008]
EC calls for more cuts on the cost to roam
News The European Commission is pushing for further cuts to roaming charges in Europe. The Commission on Tuesday proposed that charges for roaming text messages be slashed by 60 per cent by next summer. It... [24 Sep 2008]
Wanted: Techies with mobile skills
News R is for Roaming Kang Eu Ween, Asia-Pacific enterprise solutions director at Juniper Networks said in an email interview that demand for these network managers, however, "will not be immediate". Akshay... [22 Sep 2008]
Mobile roaming in Europe gets cheaper
News The cap was introduced by the EC back in 2007 as part of the EU Roaming Regulation, which came into force on 30 June that year and was aimed at driving down the costs for consumers of using their mobiles... [29 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment R is for Roaming The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business migrating out of the US into the EU and south-east Asia. Written poolside at my hotel in Rome and... [05 Aug 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer at the GSMA, said in a statement: "According to our analysis, the average price of SMS roaming services in the EU has declined by 18 per cent... [16 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News The analyst predicts non-messaging data roaming revenues within the EU will more than double between 2008 and 2013, reaching €1.1bn by the end of the period. Yesterday was the 1 July deadline set by... [02 Jul 2008]
T-Mobile UK slashes Euro data roaming costs
News T-Mobile UK is the latest mobile operator to crack under the steely gaze of EC telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, and slash the price of data roaming and sending text messages in Europe. T-Mobile has announced it is... [20 Jun 2008]
Mobile internet use 'rocketing in Europe'
News According to the GSMA research, the average retail price of data roaming in the EU fell by 25 per cent in the year to April 2008, while the cost of text message roaming services dropped... [11 Jun 2008]
Orange cuts voice and data roaming costs
News Mobile operator Orange has added new cheaper roaming offers for voice and data for customers travelling in Europe. Earlier this year, the European information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding threatened the... [20 May 2008]
In-flight mobile gets Ofcom thumbs up
News R is for Roaming The news follows a consultation on Ofcom proposals published in October last year and the regulator has worked with other EU countries to come to the decision. Click on the links below... [26 Mar 2008]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off roaming charges, Viviane Reding, has set her sights on debunking geeky IT stereotypes which she believes are... [07 Mar 2008]
Ads popping up on US mobiles
News EU demands mobile roaming cuts Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday Photos: Google Android comes out to play Mobile World Congress... [05 Mar 2008]
