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Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 17 days ago
European regulators are set for another bruising battle with Mobile phone Operators after launching a campaign to slash the cost of sending a text message or downloading data when abroad. ... Source: www.telecompaper.com --- 25 days ago
(Telecompaper) Europe's leading Mobile Operators have stepped up lobbying against the European Commission's plans to reduce termination rates. A study by consulting firm Frontier Economics, commissioned by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia and Vodafone, suggests that cuts to termination rates could lead to a drop in Mobile penetration. Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, has been working to harmonise and lower the rates across the EU. "In scenarios where incoming Mobile calls continue not to be charged to the called party, as is the case at present in Europe, a reduction of Mobile termination rates to 2c per minute could lead to Mobile penetration being 9 percent lower throughout the region," said George Houpis of Frontier Economics, who conducted the study. The study was based on economic analysis of termination charges and the US Mobile market, where Mobile termination rates are very low and customers usually pay for receiving calls as well as making them. "We are a little surprised at the lack of intellectual strength of the report," a spokesperson for Reding told the Financial Times. "There are fundamental flaws in the analysis. It paints a very dark picture for the future and cannot be taken seriously." ... Source: www.eubusiness.com --- 18 days ago
The European Commission has Mobile phone Operators in its sights again with plans due on Tuesday to regulate the price of sending text messages and to tighten billing rules. ... Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 28 days ago
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Five European Mobile telephone Operators released a study Friday aimed at proving that EU plans to force them to cut certain Mobile phone costs will not reduce prices for consumers. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 43 days ago
Reuters - Mobile phone Operators may face legislation from the European Commission to crack down on what the EU executive sees as overcharging, but industry said such a step would amount to micro-management. ... Source: mobile.reuters.com --- 43 days ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Mobile phone Operators may face legislation from the European Commission to crack down on what the EU executive sees as overcharging, but industry said such a step would amount to micro-management. ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 17 days ago
The European commission yesterday opened a new front in its war with dominant Mobile phone Operators by proposing price caps to slash the cost of sending texts, downloading data and making calls overseas. EU telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, said: "We don't want to send Operators out of business. Our price ceilings are very generous and no operator will be bankrupt because of these 'roaming' proposals." She was responding to fresh complaints from the GSM Association, which represents big players such as Orange and Vodafone, that the EC plans are "politically motivated regulation" and "micro-management" and will drive down revenues and stifle investment and innovation. Reding accused Operators of failing to respond to her offer of a year's grace to cut text and data costs and of continuing to levy excessive charges on consumers. "We would have no need for micro-management at a political level if the industry had done its management at a commercial level," she said, adding that price caps on voice calls imposed since last year had been a zero-sum game, since falling revenue had been offset by increased traffic. Last year, EU citizens sent 2.5 billion SMS worth €800m at an average cost of €0.29 a text when travelling within Europe. The EC now proposes a retail cap of €0.11, ex-VAT, from July 1 2009, with the wholesale cap set at €0.04. Amid reports that one consumer was charged €40,000 for downloading a TV show over a roaming l ... Source: uk.reuters.com --- 43 days ago
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Mobile phone Operators may face a European Commission crackdown on what the EU executive sees as overcharging, but industry representatives said such legislation would amount to micro-management. ... Source: turk.internet.com --- 94 days ago
... Source: www.euronews.net --- 87 days ago
EU calls Mobile phone Operators to slash the price of roaming texts ... Source: mybroadband.co.za --- 28 days ago
Five European Mobile telephone Operators released a study today aimed at proving that European Union (EU) plans to force them to cut certain Mobile phone costs will not reduce prices for consumers. ...
Source: www.itweb.co.za --- 42 days ago
Mobile phone Operators may face European Commission legislation to crack down on what it sees as overcharging. ...
Source: www.sci-tech-today.com --- 35 days ago
The European Union's telecommunications minister plans to propose a new set of price controls that would sharply cut the roaming fees charged by Mobile Operators to send short text messages while also reducing the cost of surfing the Internet on a cell phone. Details of the proposal, obtained by the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday, show that the minister, Viviane Reding, will seek to cap retail roaming fees for short text messages, or SMS, within the European Union at 11 euro cents, or 16 U.S. cents, a message. That would be a 62 percent reduction from the current average of 29 cents, according to the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU. Reding also intends to recommend a cap on the wholesale cost of using Mobile phones to access the Internet -- the fees Operators charge each other -- that would halve the average cost to euro 1 a megabyte from euro 2. SMS roaming prices range from 6 cents in Estonia to 80 cents in Belgium, according to the European Regulators Group, a panel of the European Union's 27 national telecommunications regulators. "SMS prices are really too high so bringing them down is best thing that can happen for consumers," said Monique Goyens, the director general of the European Consumers' Organization, a Brussels group representing 41 consumer organizations in Europe. In 2007, Europeans spent euro 800 million in SMS roaming charges and euro 560 million on data roaming services, according to ... Source: www.publictechnology.net --- 60 days ago
... Source: www.webitpr.com --- 94 days ago
The GSMA (global trade association representing more than 750 GSM Mobile phone Operators across 218 territories) recently released data showing that a 25% decrease in data roaming costs between April 2007 and April 2008 increased consumer usage by 75% (a price/demand elasticity that virtually any other industry should covet). So why exactly are these same Mobile Operators grumbling about an EU mandated cut in roaming data charges? Every shareholder in Vodafone, O2 et. al. should... ... Source: www.phonesreview.co.uk --- 94 days ago
We have just had a press release sent in to us which may be of some interest to some of our readers. Please read it below then let us know what your views are. Blind as bats: EU Mobile Operators are unable to stop price gouging even when their own numbers say they should The GSMA (global [...] ... Source: www.it-director.com --- 94 days ago
The GSMA (global trade association representing more than 750 GSM Mobile phone Operators across 218 territories) recently released data showing that a 25% decrease in data roaming costs between April 2007 and April 2008 increased consumer... [Read More...] ... Source: press.jrc.it --- 87 days ago
Mobile phone Operators will be forced to slash by roughly two-thirds the cost of sending a text message while travelling between European Union countries, the bloc's executive arm said on Tuesday. The 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by... ... Find more results for EU Mobile Operators on RSSMicro.com |
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Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve , Friday 12 September 2008 at 16:42:00 Site looks at charges for calls outside the EU Roaming Advisor is a comparison website set up to give people information on the prices charged by Mobile phone Operators for making calls to and from countries outside the European Union.... ...
Roaming fees on text messages will soon be capped, if the EU minister for telecommunications gets her way, along with the cost of internet surfing on cellphones. The minister, Viviane Reding, wants to cap roaming texts at 11 Euro cents a minute – a 62 per cent reduction on average – with a cap of €1 per megabyte for using the internet – roughly half of what it is now. Currently SMS roaming prices vary from 6 cents in Estonia to 80 cents in Belgium. Of the €300 billion spent on telecommunications in the EU last year, €800 million was spent on SMS roaming and €560 million on data roaming, according to the EU commission. Handy cap Despite opposition from the Mobile Operators, Reding's proposals are likely to be accepted by the European parliament with new charges likely to be put in place by next summer. Last year, her proposals for capping voice roaming were easily voted in – a move that she reckons has saved customers up to 60 per cent on charges. David Pringle, a spokesman for the London-based GSM Association, which represents wireless Operators, was less enthusiastic. "In our view, these markets are healthy, competitive and functioning well," he said. "There is no need for Brussels to set prices." There's a surprise. ...