EU under fire over mobile fee cap
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Plans to limit mobile phone call costs for consumers who travel abroad within Europe are attacked by the industry.
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iPhone users have felt the sting of high roaming charges with their devices, and many of them are complaining to the company or on blogs.
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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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(InfoWorld) - The European Union's 27 governments gave the final OK Thursday to a law that will slash the cost of using a mobile phone abroad by around 70 percent, the German government said. By the end of this month mobile phone operators will have to offer subscribers a capped rate for phoning or receiving calls while outside their own countries. In the first year, roaming tariffs will be capped at â¬0.49 ($0.66) a minute for making calls abroad and â¬0.24 for receiving them. It will fall to â¬0.46 and â¬0.22 in the second year and â¬0.43 and â¬0.19 in the third, respectively. A rear-guard action by the U.K. in defense of mobile phone operators petered out and British Industry Minister Margaret Hodge was convinced to support theÂ compromise packageÂ put forward by the European Parliament. Mobile phone operators haveÂ lobbied hard to avert the law, which they see as unnecessary and harmful to competition. German Economy Minister Michael Glos was chairing the meeting because Germany currently holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. He will announce the agreement reached Thursday morning at a press conference at 3 p.m. CET (1 p.m. GMT). Â
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Greece's agency for information security on Thursday imposed a EU76m (&pound;51.2m, $100.5m) fine on Vodafone's Greek operation for failing to prevent the illegal tapping of more than 100 mobile phones, including one used by Costas Karamanlis, prime minister.
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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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Don't tap the PM's phone... Ericsson has been hit with a â¬7.36m ($10m) fine for its role in tapping mobile phones belonging to the Greek prime minister and members of his Cabinet.â¦
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EU lawmakers endorsed a deal Wednesday to cap mobile phone roaming fees in the 27-nation bloc
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CALLS for an all-Ireland mobile phone tariff were made yesterday after plans to slash cross-border roaming charges by up to 70 per cent were backed by EU ministers.   Millions of mobile phone users across 27 member states will benefit from the new rules adopted by the EU Telecoms Council.
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Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.
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The European Union set mobile phone companies a July deadline on Monday to cut their roaming charges for text messages and Internet use or face regulation.
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British Telecom is criticised for charging customers Â£4.50 extra each quarter if they do not pay by direct debit.
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The Office of Fair Trading refers Apple's iTunes service to the European Commission on the grounds that it over-charges UK customers.
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The European Union has psased a law that will dramatically cut the cost of roaming between countries with a mobile phone.
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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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LONDON -- Apple Computer&#39;s three-month-old European iTunes service came under attack Wednesday from Britain&#39;s Consumers&#39; Association, which asked the Office of Fair Trading, a business watchdog, to investigate why the service&#39;s prices are higher than
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Mastercard is criticised by the European Commission for charging cross-border credit and debit card fees.