The European Union’s new charges for mobile ‘roaming’ when abroad have been agreed by the European parliament and will become law from 1st July 2012. Overall, consumers are expected to save 75% across roaming calls, text messages and data compared with 2007 prices.
As well as reduced costs for voice calls and SMS messages, new price caps for mobile data will be introduced.
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Mobile phone price comparison service billmonitor.com has published new research that shows the fear of ‘bill shock’ is out of proportion to the likelihood of exceeding a smartphone data allowance.
It’s found that only 8% of UK smartphone users have paid ‘out of bundle’ data charges recently.
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Mark Bridge writes:
“You're gonna need a bigger boat”. The words of Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody spots the shark in the film Jaws.
37 years later and O2 UK CEO Ronan Dunne is facing another all-devouring monster... but this is no aquatic predator. It’s in the air - and it’s invisible.
No, we’re not talking about a Pteranodon (that’s Jurassic Park III) but a 4G mobile broadband connection. A real-life data monster.
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Ofcom has published new proposals designed to simplify calls to ‘non-geographic’ numbers. The proposals are designed to resolve confusion about how much it costs to call organisations that use UK telephone numbers beginning with 03, 08, 09 and 118.
If they become law, calls to 0800 telephone numbers would be free from all fixed-line and mobile phones in the UK.
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This week’s podcast from The Fonecast covers all the top stories from the past seven days. We’re talking about RIM’s plans for its BlackBerry business, the EC’s plans for ‘roaming’ tariffs, T-Mobile’s price-rise plans and much more.
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