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EU’s Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes is under intense pressure from member states that are threatening to delay or water down her proposal to abolish cross-border tariffs on mobile phone calls within Europe by 2016.

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Yesterday the European Commission’s last price cut under the current roaming regulation came into effect. The maximum retail rate for voice roaming is now 35 cents per minute for calls made and 11 cents per minute for calls received while abroad in the EU.

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Yesterday, the U.S. Federal Communications Committee voted unanimously to explore regulation that would require mobile operators to provide usage alerts and related information that assists consumers in avoiding unexpected charges on their bills.

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Multinational Companies (MNCs) cannot get what they are looking for on the mobile market, which is: cross-border one-stop shopping; one-stop billing; centralized management; and last but not least, reasonable prices. These are the main conclusions of a new study by INTUG.

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Voice and text roaming rates in Europe are down by 50 per cent from 2007, with very few prices applied below the roaming price cap that was set by the European Commission, according to a report from Tariff Consultancy Ltd. (TCL). However, the average retail price for mobile data roaming within the European Union is five times the wholesale price.

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To improve the bargaining positions of Australian telcos, the Australian House of Repesentatives Committee has recommended a policy of regulating the framework for the wholesale cost of roaming through bilateral and multilateral negotiations with other countries, making sure that countries with the greatest number of Australian visitors are given priority.

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International mobile roaming charges are excessively high for Australians. This is one of the findings of a KPMG report, commissioned by the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, highlighted concerns about excessive international mobile roaming charges.

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European operators have raised the price of roaming calls into the European Union as much as 163 per cent since the introduction of the Eurotariff to compensate for the loss of roaming revenues within Europe, according to research from Informa Telecoms & Media.

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