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Roaming outside EU too expensive - Dutch minister

2016-07-01 10:49:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The cost of roaming outside the EU is too high, said the Dutch economic affairs ministry, in response to questions from parliament. However, the government has no means to intervene on this market. The European Union has already reduced roaming prices within the region, but cannot control those outside the EU. The minister said this was unfortunate, but he could not legislate on the matter for Dutch operators. Mobile operators pay wholesale rates for roaming abroad and local regulation could make the service loss-making for them. While international organisation like the ITU and WTO have tried to address the issue, there have been few efforts made in treaties.

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Free Mobile agrees to end Orange roaming from 2017

2016-06-16 09:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Iliad announced that it has agreed to start phasing out roaming on Orange's network for its Free Mobile customers from the start of 2017. The 2G/3G contract runs until 2020 still, but the operators agreed an annex that will see Free start to end roaming from January 2017. Free said its own mobile network has reached 84.5 percent of the population covered with 3G and 68.3 percent with 4G. It has relied on Orange for roaming since it first launched mobile services in 2012. The companies said they had been in negotiations for several months on amending the contract. The regulator Arcep will be notified of the new agreement.

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EC adopts wholesale roaming cut proposal

2016-06-15 13:59:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The European Commission has adopted a proposal to cut wholesale roaming charges as part of the process to abolish all retail roaming in the EU by mid-June 2017. Following the public consultation on wholesale roaming rates, the EC has proposed cutting maximum wholesale roaming charges to 4 eurocents a minute for calls, 1 eurocent per SMS and 0.85 eurocents per megabyte of data. Wholesale prices currently stand at 5 eurocents a minute for calls, 2 eurocents for SMS and 5 eurocents per megabyte of data. In a statement, the EC said national wholesale roaming markets need to be competitive to enable operators to abolish retail roaming charges without operating at a loss.

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