eu slashes roaming fees again - and still hopes to end them

eu slashes roaming fees again - and still hopes to end them - pcpro.co.uk headed to europe for holidays this summer the eu just shaved a bit more off your mobile roaming bill the european commission has been slashing at roaming costs for the past several years cutting the charges for making a call on the continent by as

three adds five more destinations to 'no-roaming fees' service - seenit.co.uk nokialumia1020 three customers can now surf talk and text in 16 countries without incurring roaming charges after the network added france switzerland israel finland and norway to its popular feel at home service feel at home allows customers to

apple slashes ipod price by 25 percent, introduces new colors - techtimes.com apple is introducing a madeover ipod touch which now comes with a faster processor better cameras and lower prices this comes amidst ipod sales plummeting to the ground in the last few years photo apple apple has taken its ipod touch and has

european commission cuts data roaming charges across eu by over 50% - ibtimes.co.uk european union flags are hung outside the european commission headquarters in brussels from 1 july those travelling to eu countries will be offered various customised roaming deals before embarking on their journeyreuters the european

eu moves to cut data roaming by 55pc across europe - siliconrepublic.com from 1 july the eu will cut price caps for data downloads by more than 55pc – down from 45 cents per megabyte to 20 cents per megabyte as a result for example football fans traveling in the eu during this world cup season will pay 25 times less for data

eu cuts data roaming charges in half - mediatel.co.uk the european commission has announced mobile data roaming cuts of up to 50% across the european union the eu will see new price caps for data downloads introduced next month cutting costs by more than half the caps mean mobile operators will

social media, apps doubles mobile data traffic in sub-saharan africa – study - capitalfm.co.ke mobile internet data has doubled in the past one year in subsaharan africa according to an ericsson study the june 2014 subsaharan africa ericsson mobility report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76000 tb terabyte of data per month

facebook buys finnish mobile data firm pryte - mrweb.com facebook has acquired finnish mobile data firm pryte whose patentpending technology measures realtime user activity including app use to trigger marketing and charging activity terms of the deal were not disclosed mark zuckerberg founded in

simplocker android malware locks up mobile data and demands a ransom - theguardian.com a fresh strain of criminal software has been discovered encrypting the data of android smartphone owners then demanding payment to unlock it the simplocker ransomware scans victims' sd memory cards for certain files including images pdfs and other

post-coup mobile data usage jumps - bangkokpost.com mobile data usage in thailand has surged since a military coup last month as thais swap information and search the internet for reliable news providing an unexpected boon to network operators hit by depressed consumption data usage spiked on the day

standstill looms for mobile data traffic - bdlive.co.za in the mid1990s there were fewer telephone connections in the whole of subsaharan africa than there were in manhattan what a difference two decades have made by the end of this year there will be more than 635million active telephone subscriptions

mobile data revolution in sub-saharan africa - southafrica.info voicecall traffic is to double and mobile internet usage is expected to increase 20 times between 2013 and 2019 in subsaharan africa twice the anticipated global expansion swedish company ericsson says in its latest mobility report for the region

excess mobile data charge complaints on the rise - smh.com.au watchdog to regulate 'astronomical' sms costs consumer complaints about excess mobile data charges have increased by 30 per cent in the three months to march compared with the same time last year figures released by the telecommunications industry

streaming music won't count against t-mobile data plans - time.com tmobile and macklemore macklemore of macklemore and ryan lewis performs on stage as tmobile unleashes music freedom at paramount theatre on june 18 2014 in seattle washington mat hayward—getty images for tmobile wireless carrier

mobile data forecast to lift 20-fold - iol.co.za mobile data traffic will grow 20fold between 2013 and 2019 according to the ericsson mobility report released last week this estimate has led to an assertion from industry insiders that there is a need for increased investment and access to more spectrum

globe: mobile data users doubled in 6 months - abs-cbnnews.com manila philippines globe said the number of customers using mobile data has more than doubled in the last six months helped by the telco's free facebook offer in a statement globe president and ceo ernest cu said the steady increase in mobile

t-mobile will waive data fees for music services - online.wsj.com tmobile said it is going to waive data charges when subscribers use services like spotify pandora and rhapsody bloomberg tmobile us inc tmus 115% tmobile us inc us nyse $3268 038 115% june 18 2014 401 pm volume delayed 15m

european roaming charges to plummet 50 percent from 1 july - theinquirer.net roaming charges across europe will drop more than 50 percent from 1 july as the european union eu works towards eliminating roaming charges altogether following similar price cuts that took place this time last year the european commission

ibm slashes softlayer prices and plugs it into more data centers - theregister.co.uk the great homogenizing force of cloud economics rolls on this time pushing prices for ibm's softlayer cloud below those of rivals amazon and microsoft in yesterday's case of adam smith's invisible hand gently forcing a corporation to cut prices below rivals

mtn slashes voice and data offerings - itnewsafrica.com mtn south africa has introduced several voice and data offerings in recent months as testament to its commitment of providing consumers across market segments with solutions tailored to their needs and budgetary requirements mtn has adjusted its mtn

mtn slashes ad hoc data rates - techcentral.co.za mtn has taken an axe to ad hoc or outofbundle data rates chopping the rate on one of its popular plans from r2mb to 79cmb added by duncan mcleod on 13 june 2014 saved under editor's pick news tags cell c mtn · tweet mtn640 mtn has

national roaming plan for mobile blackspots - news.sky.com proposals to force the sharing of phone masts could help connect rural communities but cause friction between network operators 1050am uk saturday 21 june 2014 residents of a west sussex village unite in a show of defiance over the erection of

will the proposed national roaming scheme be the answer to our mobile signal ... - itproportal.com the uk government is considering introducing a "national roaming" scheme to the uk in order to improve rural mobile coverage if given the goahead it would allow consumers to switch between networks when they run out of signal similar to how

100% mobile coverage is a pipe dream – even with national roaming - phys.org mobile phone providers should introduce national roaming britain's culture secretary sajid javid has announced the purpose to enable full mobile phone coverage across the uk bringing signal to those black spots where you lose it in the same way that

national roaming would not end mobile blackspots (united kingdom) - wirelessfederation.com according to opensignal government plans to make mobile network operators share infrastructure would improve mobile coverage but it would not eliminate the problem of mobile blackspots the average uk mobile user currently has no signal 15% of the

at&t raises fees, t-mobile ceo trash talks move - geeksided.com in yet another entry to tmobile's longrunning heckling of other carriers their ceo john legere wasted no time in criticizing at&t's new hike of activation fees on thursday at&t explained the decision to fierce wireless a spokesman said there are

mtn drops ad hoc data fees - itweb.co.za mtn which has in the past been the last to fire back in the price war has surprised the industry of late mtn which has started to show itself at the forefront of the mobile price war has adjusted its pay per second price plan base data rate taking it from r2

analyst: a sprint and t-mobile merger has a 10 percent chance of approval - washingtonpost.com billionaire masayoshi son chairman and chief executive officer of softbank corp speaks during a news conference in urayasu chiba prefecture japan on thursday june 5 2014 tomohiro ohsumibloomberg that sprint wants to buy tmobile is pretty

apple's ios 8 protects mobile privacy from wi-fi data collection - macobserver.com one of the improved privacy features of ios 8 could also foil marketers tracking smartphone data via the loop we learned that mac address tracking—a common method marketers and also malware can use to monitor mobile phones and therefore

mobile app data collection a huge risk to enterprises, gartner says - techienews.co.uk gartner in its latest report titled adapt your information infrastructure in the age of consumercentric mobile apps has revealed that data collected by mobile app pose a huge risk to enterprises and that organisations should ensure that such data collection