By Sylvia Carr, 10 July 2006 15:35
NEWS
European mobile operators have launched a new web to give travellers an easy way to determine rates for mobile phone calls when they are abroad.
The site, www.roaming.gsmeurope.org reveals the best tariffs when travelling abroad from 75 operators across Europe, including UK operators O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone.
Visitors to the site choose their home country and operator and the country they will be travelling to. The site then shows tariffs for incoming and outgoing calls for both local calls within the foreign country and for calls home. It also reveals the cost of sending text messages.
Developed by mobile industry consortium GSM Europe, the site was welcomed by telecoms regulatory body the European Regulators Group because it benefits consumers.
The European Commission has threatened to slash mobile roaming rates by as much as 60 per cent.
Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for information society and media, has said it's unfair for mobile phone users to pay different rates at home and abroad.
The operators have strongly opposed the EC's proposal and say it could result in higher mobile tariffs overall.
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1. David King
The website does not include Virgin Mobile for UK users, so was not helpful to me at all.
2. Mobile Phone
Mobile phone is useful in this time means I can carry to one place to aanother place.there are very mobile resources which offers mobile phone information.so mobile rainbow is one of them which provide mobile phone contract information in uk.If you want to know about latest mobile phone then visit
http://www.mobilerainbow.co.uk
3. anonymous
Business Mobile Phone operators' trade body, the GSM Association, said that its members were already introducing price cuts and lower tariffs that would bring down the average cost of a roaming call within the EU by about 40%.