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Articles tagged with: Eu and Roaming
Court adviser says EU roaming cap law is valid
The EU was entitled to cap roaming rates in 2007 as network operators pocketed huge profits but resisted less drastic ways to cut the sky-high costs of using mobile phones in Europe, the EU advocate general said Thursday. more
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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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Mobile operators are resiliently beating the recession
..cult to maintain repayment on dollar or euro denominated debts and to fund new network investment. The report warns that going forward mobile operators have to get back to worrying about competition and regulation, as these are the mai more
Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures
Belgium based Mobistar has reported a slight rise in first-quarter revenues of 2.5% to reach euR 371.2 million (US$483.8 million) - although its customer base rose by 6.4% over the same period. The company said the disparity was determined in part by the continuing price pressure in a highly competitive market, by the regulatory decisions (lowering of the mobile termination rates in May and July 2008) and a reduced activity in the business market. more
Related Tags: mobistar, smartphones, sms, smartphone, 3g, , tim, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates, Belgium
European Parliament Votes to Approve Cuts on Roaming Charges
The european Parliament, in its plenary session in Strasbourg, has voted to approve new rules on SMS and mobile data charges when roaming. The Parliament also voted for further cuts in the price of mobile phone calls while roaming in another eu country. The present cap for a mobile phone call made abroad will progressively drop from euR0.46 to euR0.35 per minute by July 2011, and from euR0.22 today to euR0.11 for mobile calls received while roaming abroad. more
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Deutsche Telekom Issues Profits Warning - May Write Down T-Mobile Value
Deutsche Telekom has issued a profits warning, and now expects adjusted EBITDA in 2009 to be 2 to 4 percent below last year. The company is now expecting to post EBITDA in the range of euR18.7 billion - euR19.1 billionn (US$24.7 billionn) after an initial forecast of euR19.5 billion. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, ptc, 3g, pops, , prepay, arpu, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, tim, lte, ovi, t-mobile-uk, sharp, ote, telekom, Germany
UK Publishes Proposals to Introduce Mobile Roaming for 999 Calls
The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom says that it is planning to introduce automatic national roaming between the five mobile network operators for calls to the emergency networks. The regulator said that at the moment, mobile calls to emergency numbers can only be connected if the caller's own network is available in the area. This is a particular issue in remote areas and means that in some parts of the UK - particularly in Scotland and Wales - emergency mobile calls cannot be connected from certain mobile networks. more
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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
Related Tags: sms, european-commission, viviane-reding, text-messages, billing
148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year
Travellers have long been familiar with the roaming services available for cellular voice calls. Now that 3G networks are widely deployed, similar roaming functions are being made available for data services including MMS and mobile Internet access. Explored in a new ABI Research Brief, these arrangements are already generating revenues in the billions of dollars. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, mms, mobile-data, rural, driving, abi-research
Fitch Ratings Puts Digicel Debt Ratings as Stable
Fitch Ratings has confirmed that the debt ratings outlook for pan-Caribbean operator, Digicel Group is Stable. Fitch said that Digicel's ratings are supported by a historically strong operating performance, its position as the leading provider of wireless services in the Caribbean (including strong market positions in Jamaica, Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago), strong brand recognition, and an increasingly diversified revenue and cash flow stream across the Caribbean. more
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