There are 25 EU minister from 25 EU countries decide today in Brussel about the roaming price politic of mobile providers. Their aim is to make the prices in European Union lower.
I hope that they will have made their plan successful and I will be able to use mobile icq or to check my email on holidays without needing to search an Internet-Cafe.
I think that Brussel are not able to change anything. The reason is not the “international alliance” of mobile providers, but bureaucracy of EU and single EU members.
They are reached their aim in struggle with Microsoft, I think, they will do the same with mobile providers. It is only the question of time.
It seems that some mobile providers updates their prices. For example O2 offers now EU-option.
I thing that is necessary push GPRS roaming prices lower, and EU activity could help to do it. If you compare how many you get (I mean number of transferred data via radio interface and roaming connections) when you are making roaming voice call (opened transparent channel during all time) and if you create GPRS roaming connection (only packet data not wasting radio channel during all time).
I am resentful, because I tried to get some information from web when I was roaming in Germany and I spend more then 30 EUR for reading few kB of text with pictures.
If I compare it with new EU roaming voice tariffs, approximately 0,50 EUR per minute, during it on radio channel is transferred ~1,2kB/s information (GSM-EFR codec is 12,2kbps i.e. if I approximately counting 10bits per byte) then I should be able to transfer minimally 72kB/minute (I pass away that GPRS coding schemes are more effective). But current GPRS roaming prices are more higher. I thing that in that case customer should get more then 4,2MB information per 30 EUR (72kB/0,5EUR i.e. 72*2*30).
We should together kick operators to do it better !
Very well written article.
The head of the mobile phone industry body, the GSM Association, said afterwards that operators would “resist” any attempt to regulate.
The EU regulation on phoning entered into force on 30 June last year, capping prices for dialing out at a maximum 49 euro cents per minute excluding tax.
The European Union project aimed to increase the mobility of EU citizens!
The price of receiving a call was capped at 24 euro cents per minute excluding tax and the maximum levels will fall later this year and again in 2009 (yahoo.com)
KPN, 3 Group and Polish operator Play said this week they had agreed to cut the price they charge each other for one megabyte of data roaming to 0.25 euros!
Vodafone said on Friday it would reduce prices by up to 45 percent on its monthly data roaming tariff for European business travelers to make it cheaper to use laptop computers wirelessly when abroad.
2008 – the cap will be lowered to €0.46 (€0.22 for incoming calls)
2009 – it will be lowered again to €0.43 (€0.19 for incoming calls)
It was also agreed that operators will have to lower roaming tariffs for all users, not just those who have requested it!
The move will primarily benefit business travelers, who typically must pay more when downloading data or surfing the Internet from their laptop computers while traveling within the European Union.
Why have operators not brought prices down voluntarily?
It finally sunk in!
Yeah!!
A great transformation is taking place in mobile communications and this is good.
Accessing the mobile internet is also expensive.
Very well, very well!
Sending text messages or downloading other data via a mobile phone while being in another EU country should not be substantially more expensive for a consumer than sending text messages or downloading data at home!
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