South Africa mulls reining in roaming
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Your personal details, or else The South African justice committee is considering making foreign travellers register their name, passport number, and address with a local provider before being allowed to use the local GSM services.â¦
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The wireless service provider seeks growth in emerging markets.
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Jens F. Laurson and George A. Pieler explain why cell phone roaming charges in Europe remain stuck in the stratosphere.
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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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NTT Communications, T-Mobile USA, Telstra, StarHub, and Maxis Communications have joined to establish roaming arrangements that allow customers to use wireless broadband services from Internet access points -- called hotspots&quot; -- in their countries
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Airline travelers may be able to use  their mobile telephones and other wireless devices in the air  under a proposal to ease the current ban put forward by U.S.  communications regulators on Wednesday.
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Vodafone could pay up to $10bn (&pound;4.9bn) to take full control of Vodacom, South Africa&#39;s largest mobile group.
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Telkom South Africa may sell the rest of a mobile-phone venture, the nationâs biggest, to Vodafone Group and dispose of its fixed-line unit to the MTN Group. Telkom South Africa said in a statement that it was in talks with Vodafone and MTN over âmobile strategy.â Telkom, which has a market value of about 103.4 billion rand ($14.4 billion), declined to give details. MTN and Vodafone confirmed the discussions in separate statements. The sales would effectively dismantle what was until last year a monopoly over fixed-line phone services in South Africa. They also would give the government an exit from its investment in Telkom. South Africa owns about 38 percent of the company.
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Mobile operators are starting to wake up to the potential of giving their customers access to the net.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 10, 2004 -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) has been selected by MTN South Africa to supply 3G/WCDMA network.
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Wireless companies are under pressure to police the services they carry amid mounting concern that today's increasingly versatile cell phones can be gateways to a lot more than football highlights and pop videos.
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The U.K. mobile giant wants to find a way to disentagle the Czech wireless and fixed-line businesses.
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In theory, advertising agencies should love mobile telephones. What better way to reach consumers on the go?
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Price and coverage are the key issues affecting mobile users, a survey of European consumers finds.
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Operators say operators should set prices Mobile World Congress EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has warned mobile executives in Barcelona today that she will impose caps on roaming charges for data and text messaging if they do not cut prices by 1 July.â¦
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By Alastair Jamieson Consumer Affairs Correspondent  PRICE cuts could be on the way for mobile phone customers after the telecoms watchdog ordered more restrictions on call charges and promised to investigate the cost of text messaging.
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UK lobbies for cellcos Roaming charges are set to plummet after European ministers supported plans to cap the fees, but some countries are supporting watered down proposals.â¦