Wi-Fi Offload – Do you Want Quality with That?
At the start of summer I joined the throng in Nice for the annual TM Forum get together and catch up with old friends and hear about the latest and greatest happenings in the telecoms world. I asked...
View ArticleIf Kroes has been Nobbled, who will actually Suffer
Back in June, we read reports that VP of the European Commission Neelie Kroes was definitely going to all but abolish roaming charges from next July. For a while, blogs and publications lit up with...
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The Impact of the European Union’s Connected Continent Proposal
Roaming and Net Neutrality No more roaming charges – great. Not many complaints from consumers on that one. Goodbye to operators blocking Skype and YouTube on low speed connections – hooray it’s party...
View ArticleVodafone versus Kroes – Seconds away, round three!
You might remember that it was meant to be July 2014 when roaming would begin to be a thing of the past in Europe. When this date was pushed back, we thought it was likely that Neelie Kroes, the EU...
View ArticleWill Governments accidentally spur innovation?
Whether it is a trend that will be followed by other countries or not, the UK is moving to put caps on utility spending. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has summoned the heads of all major utilities...
View ArticleRoaming wars, round four – Kroes shocked at her own research
In the increasingly humourous roaming war of words between Commissioner Neelie Kroes and Vodafone, a new chapter has opened, ahead of MWC. The War of Propaganda. To bring you fully up to date, let us...
View ArticleIn a ‘single market’ almost all young people feel they are being ‘roamed’...
Even for those who have their telephone bills taken care of by their company, it can be irritating. You arrive in Barcelona, say, for the Mobile World Congress, say, and you turn your phone on. You are...
View ArticleRoaming fraud is up, customer experience is down, common sense does not live...
Irritation is rising at BillingViews Boulevard. Normally this irritation is not caused by inane press releases announcing that vendor ‘x’ has sold something to operator ‘y’ and expecting us to be...
View ArticleA new African roaming alliance leads the way
“In Africa,” said Bill Clinton several years ago, “for every million new mobile subscribers a country will add one percent to its GDP.” “In my country,” said the head of BSS for Vodafone Nigeria...
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A law of unintended consequences – coming soon
This article is based on an original piece and subsequent conversation with AsiaInfo’s Regulatory expert Linda French – @RegAffairsEMEA You would be forgiven for filing news of a new VAT law in the...
View ArticleWhy would a boost in roaming revenue be good news?
If the people who released the news that data roaming revenues would bring in $50 billion by 2019 thought it would bring a smile to any faces they were wrong. At least not along BillingViews’...
View ArticleIf Kroes has been Nobbled, who will actually Suffer
Back in June, we read reports that VP of the European Commission Neelie Kroes was definitely going to all but abolish roaming charges from next July. For a while, blogs and publications lit up with...
View ArticleThe Impact of the European Union’s Connected Continent Proposal
Roaming and Net Neutrality No more roaming charges – great. Not many complaints from consumers on that one. Goodbye to operators blocking Skype and YouTube on low speed connections – hooray it’s party...
View ArticleRoaming fraud is up, customer experience is down, common sense does not live...
Irritation is rising at BillingViews Boulevard. Normally this irritation is not caused by inane press releases announcing that vendor ‘x’ has sold something to operator ‘y’ and expecting us to be...
View ArticleA new African roaming alliance leads the way
“In Africa,” said Bill Clinton several years ago, “for every million new mobile subscribers a country will add one percent to its GDP.” “In my country,” said the head of BSS for Vodafone Nigeria...
View ArticleA law of unintended consequences – coming soon
This article is based on an original piece and subsequent conversation with AsiaInfo’s Regulatory expert Linda French – @RegAffairsEMEA You would be forgiven for filing news of a new VAT law in the...
View ArticleWhy would a boost in roaming revenue be good news?
If the people who released the news that data roaming revenues would bring in $50 billion by 2019 thought it would bring a smile to any faces they were wrong. At least not along BillingViews’...
View ArticleGoogle’s wireless deal could kill roaming
Google’s recent announcement that it is launching a ‘small-scale wireless service’ made us wonder what they were planning. To Google a small scale service could mean just planet earth for the moment,...
View ArticleRogers eliminates roaming across Europe
Rogers Communications has given Canadian mobile users the green light to go data crazy abroad by implementing its “Roam Like Home” policy across 35 European countries. As of Wednesday, 15th April,...
View ArticleEU considers more generous mobile data roaming allowances
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Mobile telecoms firms in Europe will have to offer their customers at least 100 megabytes (MB) of data a year at domestic rates when travelling within the European Union, according...
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