Ministers back roaming fee cut
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EU telecoms ministers back rules that cut the charges for using mobile phones abroad.
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European business travellers and holidaymakers can look forward to lower rates on mobile phone calls while abroad in the EU once new price caps go into effect across the bloc starting on Saturday.
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Business & money: Â·  EC looks at forcing down price of mobile roaming Â·   Worries over high costs  for business
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Mobile phone companies will on Thursday launch a last-ditch lobbying effort over a European Union plan to force them to slash the cost of international calls by up to 70 per cent.
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Airlines which offering cheap fares but add on extra charges will be penalised under rules backed by MEPs.
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Proposal could slash call costs by a third The European Commission has called on Ofcom to discount the massive costs paid by operators for 3G phone licences when calculating call costs. The proposal could cut mobile call charges by up to a third.â¦
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5.3p a shot till 2011 Ofcom has slapped cap on mobile call termination fees, after deciding there is little chance of competition bringing the charges down naturally.â¦
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The cost of making mobile phone calls in Europe is set to fall after lawmakers backed plans to cap roaming fees.
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Verizon Communications  has  decided to pocket most of the savings from the cancellation of  a government surcharge on digital subscriber lines, despite  calls from consumer groups to pass on the savings on to users.
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LUXEMBOURG -- EU governments agreed to cut the cost of using mobile phones abroad Thursday, paving the way for a cap on roaming fees later this summer.
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While mobile operators claim to be cutting the cost of roaming, their efforts are just a smoke screen and have no appreciable effect on charges overall, a European consumer rights group has said.
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GSM Association says data-roaming price cuts are already falling and that Commission regulation would stifle innovation.
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Medicine prices will be cut by 7 percent under a new five-year deal between the government and drug makers that will save more than 1.8 billion pounds on the nation&#39;s drugs bill.
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The top telecommunications agency in the U.K. has proposed rules that would enable airline passengers to use their cell phones.
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Vodafone is to cut costs by Â£2.5bn per year by March 2008. It will do this a combination of Â£1.4bn through cost-saving measures and Â£1.
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Regulators will tell Europe's mobile phone operators to  cut the cost of overseas texting and internet access.
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Ofcom deregulation plan a goer thanks to unbundling European regulators have backed a move by Ofcom to drop regulations that force BT to offer competitors price-capped wholesale broadband nationwide.â¦