Vodafone Wades into Roaming Fee Battle
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Vodafone has voiced its objections to the European Commission's plan to reduce or even scrap roaming fees across the region. The company told Reuters that it had written to the European Union (EU) warning that an ill-judged regulation could have unforeseen effects on the industry. The operator claims that competition among operators is...
EU to tackle "unjustified" cost of using mobile phones abroad
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The EU said Tuesday it will force mobile phone companies to scrap the ''unjustified'' high cost of using a mobile phone abroad after they failed to cut prices over the past six months. The European Commission said it would draft a law that could by next summer eliminate charges for receiving a call in another EU...
Broadband Growth Not Enough to Offset Wireline Voice Declines in US
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SOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- While growth in broadband wireline revenues remains robust in the US, it is not enough to overcome steady losses in consumer wireline voice revenues, reports In-Stat. As a result wireline service revenues in the US will decline by 3.3% annually, on average, from 2004 to 2009, the high-tech market research firm...
Palm Pushes Deeper Into Enterprise
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Palm Inc. may have raised some eyebrows last week when it reported rapidly accelerating sales of its Treo handheld devices, but Justin Hectus, director of IT for law firm Keesal, Young and Logan, didn't bat an eye. "The best formula I've found" for corporate email, says Hectus, "is Good Technology's GoodLink running on the Treo 650."...
RBOCs Wait & See on P2P
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AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. , and Qwest Communications International Inc. don't have hard, fast policies in place to deal with consumer peer-to-peer traffic. Despite the hype about P2P traffic volumes on carrier networks, these phone companies...
Sprint Nextel Helps Customers "Find It"
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Sprint is putting more information in the palm of its customers' hands, with the introduction of a new mobile search service powered by InfoSpace. InfoSpace Find It!, a J2ME powered application designed specifically for cell phones, incorporates GPS capabilities and enables subscribers to not only locate restaurants, movie times and so...
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