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Articles tagged with: Roaming
Gulf Nations to Debate Lower Roaming Costs
..oms regulators in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are to meet to discuss plans to push down roaming costs in the region. According to a report by Qatar News Agency, the talks will "consider the necessary measures to reduce the charges f more
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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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Mobile Operators Missed Out on Summer Holiday Revenue
.. huge untapped opportunity for mobile operators to deliver data services to subscribers roaming abroad, but only if consumers feel in control of their data services. The survey also found that 64 percent of respondents said they would prefer t more
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Trustive Signs Chinese Wi-Fi Roaming Agreement
Wi-Fi hotspot provider, Trustive has signed a roaming deal in China with Coordinate Technologies - giving European Wi-Fi users access to China Mobile's hotspot network. Trustive customers will gain immediate access to over 2,000 China Mobile Hotspots in eight provinces, including the Beijing Capital and Shanghai Pudong International Airports. more
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Roamware Cuts Unnecessary "Tromboning" on Roaming Voicemail Calls
..perators a potential annual bill of €150million for compliance with new EU regulations on roaming voicemail. The EU regulations, to be introduced next year, are targeted at ensuring that customers are not charged additional fees for receivi 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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Comfone records 35% annual increase in signalling traffic
..Enhanced Signalling service with features that help GSM operators simplify their roaming control. The broad deployment of steering of roaming as well as of number portability has both played a positive role in increasing signalling traffic." Th more
WiMAX Forum Starts Roaming Trials
..nced that 14 vendors are participating in the first ever commercial WiMAX interoperability and roaming trials. The commercial trial provides another platform for the WiMAX Forum to aggressively position operators and clearinghouses to initiate more
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Cross-group tariffs: good PR but not much else
Opinion by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at Ovum
Prior to 2006, roaming used to be a convoluted process – at least that's
what operators claimed. And they could charge as much as they wanted. When the
EU began to ask for lower rates, operators retorted that roaming was expensive
to administer and difficult to implement. Then Zain (formerly Celtel) came along
with its ‘One Network' concept. It removed roaming charges for its customers
across Africa, demystified roaming and earned a resounding endorsement from The
Economist. The citation read: " Zain Group has in effect created a unified
market of the kind that regulators can only dream about in Europe."
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Vodafone UK to Offer Borderless Roaming For Summer Promotion
Vodafone UK has announced that it is abolishing roaming charges between June and August this year - allowing calls made and SMS/MMS's sent from 43 countries (and 2 UK territories) to be charged at the same rate as their home tariff. more
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