Last Monday in Strasbourg, France, a panel of EU lawmakers voted 21-8 in favour of capping the costs of web browsing and data downloads on mobile phones and laptops, meaning that those on holiday, travelling or working abroad would pay a lot less for their telecoms bills. Subject to a further vote between 21st-24th April, starting 1st July roaming charges would be lowered, with the transfer of data to be capped at 50 cents (approx. 36p) per Mb and text messages to be capped at 11 cents (approx. 8p) per text, and by 2010 telephone calls would be capped at 40 cents (approx. 28p) per minute (Financial Times). The EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, believes that this bill is, “very good news for consumers all over Europe, …[especially] in view of the current economic downturn…which will encourage them to make more use of their mobile phones”. This is especially good news for those who check their emails abroad, and those who update their social networking sites (e.g. Twitter, blogs, Facebook) whilst abroad.
Friday, 20 March 2009
Thursday, 1 September 2005
Plum Mobile Phone Service Launched
Plum launched its mobile phone service low cost line rentals and calls to business users. Analysis has shown that the majority of customers with bundled packages do not use all their minute allocations and some pay penalties for exceeding their monthly allowances. Plum have made it simple for businesses to control their mobile spend by stripping out the complicated packages and providing a transparent billing process. New customers have the option of retaining their existing numbers or gaining new numbers and can retain the same handsets or have upgrade to new handsets. For customers requiring access to mail and data on the move, Plum provide a range of hand held data terminals which can be used with their mobile network. The Plum mobile service is now available to all existing Plum customers.
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