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Vodafone UK slashes roaming tariffs for business subscribers travelling in Europe

On 07.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news:

For a flat fee of £20 per person, per month, businesses using their phones in Europe can now stay in touch with colleagues and customers for the same price as making a call at home
With Vodafone Europe receiving calls abroad is now FREE
Vodafone continues to help customers to stay in touch through a range of voice, data and email whilst abroad with a suite of services.

Vodafone UK business customers now have even more ways to reduce their roaming and international call costs with the introduction of Vodafone Europe.

By adding Vodafone Europe for £20 per person, per month, customers can make business calls and texts in 12 European countries and make International calls from the UK for 5p per minute. Sending texts costs 5p per message and there is no charge for taking incoming calls. Calls are billed by the second, offering the best possible value.

“Our business customers have told us keeping in touch with customers – be it by voice, data and email whilst overseas – is vital in giving them a competitive edge” says Peter Kelly, Enterprise Director, Vodafone UK. “By adding Vodafone Europe to our suite of roaming options, customers can make decisions in real time, knowing they have greater budget control and clarity on what they and colleagues are spending when using their phones abroad.” (more…)

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ComCom to probe into mobile roaming tariffs (New Zealand)

On 06.30.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The New Zealand’s telecom regulator will reportedly probe in the imposition of price control on the cost of connecting to competing mobile phone services.
ComCom said that the cost of roaming between mobile phone networks might be “significantly above cost”.
It said it also had other concerns regarding national roaming, and the mobile market in general, including the ability of future market entrants to negotiate competitive agreements in a timely manner.
The investigation will start in national roaming in August and the release of draft report in mid-October and then completing it by Feb’10-end.
The regulator also said it planned to recommend that the price of calling a mobile phone from a fixed line connection be regulated as the current prices are too high.

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Telenor Norway introduces new roaming offer for business subscribers

On 06.22.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telenor has launched a new roaming service dubbed as Ring Scandinavia. The service targets postpaid business customers in Norway using Telenor’s network in Sweden and Denmark. The service is priced at NOK 15 per month, the roaming monthly plan comes with a tariff of NOK 1.29 per minute for outgoing calls (standard price outside Ring Scandinavia is NOK 2.49 per minute) and a charge of NOK 0.99 for incoming calls (standard price outside Ring Scandinavia is NOK 1.49). Other costs comprises of starting price per call of NOK 0.59. The special rates are applies in Telenor’s network in Sweden and Denmark and standard prices are applied for other networks in the Nordic region.

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VIP Mobile charges RSD 10p/m for outgoing calls from Montenegro to Serbia

On 06.22.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: VIP Mobile is offering holiday roaming rates for Montenegro. The operator will charge only RSD 10 per minute for outgoing calls from Montenegro to Serbia between 15 June and 30 September. Incoming calls are charged at RSD 6 per minute, and SMS cost RSD 7 per message. The offer is applied to the calls made on the Montenegrin T-Mobile network, and the prices do not include VAT or the connection fee. The subscribers of VIP Mobile Serbia visiting Montenegro this summer will be able to top up their prepaid cards at over 1,300 points-of-sale in all Montenegrin tourist resorts.

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Orange Moldova slashes roaming tariffs for both voice & mobile internet services

On 06.15.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange Moldova has slashed the roaming tariffs for both voice and mobile internet services. With the option ‘Favourite Country’, postpaid subscribers have to pay a MDL 100 per country monthly fee in order to get 80 percent lower roaming tariffs for calls to one of the fourteen countries covered (UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Switzerland, France, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine). Outgoing and incoming calls are charged per minute and per second, respectively. With that same option prepaid subscribers have to pay MDL 80 for 15 minutes for outgoing and incoming calls to or from Europe and 10 minutes to or from Turkey or Ukraine. Orange has also lowered the price for its internet roaming options Orange Travel. For tariffs between MDL 240 and MDL 420, users now get 10 to 45 MB of traffic per month. The prepaid subscribers will receive 30% discount on ‘PrePay Roaming’ and ‘PrePay over the borders’ (‘PrePay peste hotare’) in Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Turkey.The offers lasts till 15 September.

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SFR reduces roaming tariffs, launches “Vodafone Passport Europe”

On 06.12.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SFR, the French mobile operator, has reduced the roaming charges in Europe and overseas French territories with effect from 1 July in order to meet EU regulations. The operator will charge 0.51 per minute to make a call, versus EUR 0.55 at present, and EUR 0.22 per minute to receive a call, versus EUR 0.28 now.
The subscribers will be biller per second after first 30 seconds of a call. The cost of sending an SMS will drop to EUR 0.13 from EUR 0.30 and receiving SMS will be free of charge.
SFR, on 8 July, will also launch a new tariff dubbed as “Vodafone Passport Europe”, a free option allowing subscribers to use their contract call time when they are elsewhere in Europe. Subscribers will also pay EUR 1 when they make a call and EUR 1 when they receive a call up to 20 minutes long.
The operator will introduce new internet tariff options giving iPhone, HTC Magic and other smartphone users travelling in Europe or the US up to 6 MB of data transfer until midnight local time for EUR 5. Extra use will cost EUR 1 per MB.

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Geocell slashes roaming tariffs for outgoing calls & SMS on TeliaSonera networks (Georgia)

On 06.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Geocell has slashed its roaming tariffs for outgoing calls and SMS of Geocell and Lai Lai subscribers in TeliaSonera group’s member operators’ networks in Europe and Asia. The tariffs have been reduced by 30%, whereas SMS/GPRS tariffs for Geocell subscribers have been dropped by 50%.

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Vodafone & Cosmote Romania to slash EU roaming tariffs from June 16 & July 1 respectively

On 06.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Romania and Cosmote Romania will slash their roaming tariffs for the voice, SMS and data transfer services for the subscribers roaming in EU member nations starting from July 16 and July 1 respectively.
The subscribers of Vodafone travelling in EU member nations, in the EEA (European Economic Space), as well as in Switzerland will enjoy tariffs of EUR 0.512 with VAT per minute for a call to any destination from the EU, EEA and Switzerland and a EUR 0.226 with VAT per minute for any call from the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
The tariffs of SMS will be set at EUR 0.131 without VAT per SMS (0.131 euros with VAT) for the SMS sent in roaming in the EU, EEA and Switzerland to any destination and of EUR 0.35 per SMS for users of the Vodafone SIM card.
On the other hand, Cosmote Romania will reduce the roaming tariffs from 1 July on certain categories of calls, SMS and data transfer by up to 40% (for voice), 63% (for SMS) and 75%.

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du introduces ‘One World, One Rate’ for roaming (UAE)

On 06.10.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Simplifying the roaming tariffs currently available in the region, du, the UAE’s integrated telecoms provider, has launched the ‘One World, One Rate’ roaming tariff that offers users more value, simplicity and convenience from their du mobile service, while roaming abroad.

With ‘One World, One Rate’, du customers roaming abroad will pay a flat rate of AED1.25 per minute for incoming calls. All du postpaid customers who have activated roaming service will automatically get the benefit of One World One rate tariff. All du prepaid customers will also get the benefit of the great offer.

Farid Faraidooni, EVP Commercial, du, said; “We want to make mobility simpler, better value, and more accessible and convenient for our customers. Our enhanced roaming footprint now covers 374 global telecom operators and along with this tariff will give users peace of mind for using du mobile services, whenever and wherever they go abroad. The unique benefit on offer, will serve to make du the preferred provider for international roaming and mobility services when leaving the country.”

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Qtel introduces BlackBerry Global Package, offers competitive tariffs (Qatar)

On 06.08.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Businesses and residents of Qatar are set to benefit from access to one of the world’s most sophisticated mobile communications tools when they are roaming with any Qtel partner, with the launch of BlackBerry Global Package from Qtel.

Qtel pioneered the launch of BlackBerry in Qatar with the release of the first models in early 2008, and the company has continued to deliver a range of new solutions to meet the needs of Qatar’s dynamic companies and executives.

With the launch of the new BlackBerry Global Package, Qtel is to offer a competitive tariff scheme, specifically designed to meet the needs of growing organizations, which will help companies to manage global roaming charges. Equally, the new competitive tariff will prove attractive for individuals looking to use their BlackBerry when travelling abroad this summer.

The new tariff provides an unlimited local data bundle and a bundle of 8MB for data roaming usage. (more…)

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