www.WirelessFederation.com/news:For the first time ever in Malta, Melita Mobile is introducing the cheapest mobile rates for roaming in EU countries after the Company decided to go one step further than mandatory EU regulations by setting its new roaming tariffs a year ahead of EU requirements and ahead of other local mobile operators.
Melita Mobile announced a significant reduction on all voice, SMS rates for roaming within EU countries. Calls made from any EU country to another, now cost 47 cents (VAT included) for the first 30 seconds and then on a per second basis. . Incoming calls on Melita Mobile cost 18 cents (VAT included) per minute while roaming in any EU country.
The reductions are applicable from 1st July. SMS rates have also been reduced to 13 cents (VAT included)whilst roaming in any EU country.
“Here’s another reason why mobile users should join Melita Mobile, especially those who travel very often. We are living up to our cheaper, simpler, better promise across all our mobile services and products to the extent of introducing even cheaper roaming rates ahead of EU requirements. According to EU obligations, we could have introduced our present roaming rates in 2010, however Melita Mobile chose to offer all its subscribers an even cheaper roaming service from now,” said Mr Daniel Galea, Melita’s Product Manager for Mobile services.
Besides having the cheapest mobile roaming rates for EU countries, Melita Mobile also offers 30% cheaper local call rates, a flat rate of 10cents per call to all Melita Mobile and Melita fixed-line numbers for the entire duration of all your calls, no time windows on pre-paid credit, per second billing and the convenience of a single monthly bill for all services.
Moreover, Melita Mobile offers the only reliable video calling services in the Maltese Islands at the same call rate as voice calls.
“The new roaming rates makes our roaming rates the cheapest in Malta” added Mr. Galea.
Melita offers a worldwide network of roaming services with some 600 third party mobile operators across the globe in over 200 countries, through an agreement with Italian giant Telecom Italia.
Roaming services are available both on Pay Monthly plans (by contract) and on Pre-Paid plans (by topping up).
“We have invested a lot of money to ensure that Melita Mobile subscribers have access to full mobile roaming facilities in any part of the world and we want to make sure that these facilities are offered at the cheapest prices,” said Mr Galea.
For further information on Melita Mobile, log on to www.melita.com