Articles tagged with: Eu and Billing

Roaming Spending Caps Could Lead to Higher Revenues for Operators

A report commissioned by messaging aggregator, Acision shows that the eu roaming legislation coming in to force today will be widely embraced by consumers since currently only 12% use their mobile abroad as much as they do at home. more

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Electricity Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network

Echelon Corp. and T-Mobile USA have announced an alliance to accelerate the adoption of the smart grid in the North American market by reducing the communications cost of smart meters through the deployment of Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) system over T-Mobile's GSM network. As part of the agreement, Echelon will utilize an embedded T-Mobile SIM within a cellular radio module to enable all the Echelon smart meters on a given low voltage transformer to communicate back to the utility over the smart grid, and T-Mobile will offer users of Echelon's NES system and pricing plans for data usage. more

P2P mobile messaging to reach $106bn by 2014 - but revenues to decline in some sectors

Mobile messaging revenues are set for measured growth over the next five years, as market forces take effect. SMS, MMS, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, but the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the Web and commoditisation of established services. more

MTS and Sicap Team up to Offer Dynamic SIM Services in Belarus

Mobile network operator, MTS Belarus is to launch a SIM upgrade which will continuously display a PrePay customer's balance on their mobile phone display. The service is being provided by Sicap. Real time information is enabled by connecting a Sicap over the air SIM applet to the MTS call billing server. As such, each call is immediately debited from the account balance and the updated remaining credit displayed. more

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Verizon Wireless Joins Global Mobile Applications Joint-Venture

US network operator, Verizon Wireless is to join the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) established by China Mobile, Japan's Softbank and Vodafone (which co-owns Verizon Wireless) to help accelerate the uptake of mobile technologies on a mass-market scale. more

European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession

..a recovery of the average revenue per user (ARPU), a stabilization of operators' market share, and an improvement of their profitability. "Fixed line loss rate should slow down over the next few years, leading to more optimistic valuations of more

Europe Votes to Reduce Roaming SMS and Mobile Data Costs

Yesterday evening the european Parliament, through a vote in its Industry Committee, gave strong support to the european Commission's proposals to reduce consumer roaming charges for sending text messages and downloading data in the eu. The Commission proposed in September 2008 to make sure that consumers in the eu do not have to pay more than �0.11 per roamed SMS in the eu (excluding VAT) - a proposal endorsed yesterday by the Parliament's lead Committee on the new roaming legislation. At present, SMS roaming charges in the eu are on average �0.28 per roamed SMS and can go up to over �0.80 in some countries. more

European Commission Proposes New Cuts on Roaming SMS and Data Costs

european mobile phone users can expect the cost of sending text messages from abroad in the eu to be much cheaper next summer. The european Commission has proposed to reduce the price of roaming text messages by 60% as of 1 July 2009. more

Regulatory Changes Could Drive 40 Million Europeans to Ditch their Mobile Phone

A report commissioned by Vodafone claims that some 40 million europeans would ditch their mobile phone if US-style billing comes to the eu where a mobile phone user has to pay to receive phone calls. The submission to the european Commission, seen by the Financial Times is in response to proposals from the european Commissioner for Telecoms, Viviane Reding. more

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