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Mint Mobile now includes free Canada roaming

Ryan Daws — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:13:42 +0000

Mint Mobile has announced the inclusion of free roaming services for all its customers visiting the Great White North. This new feature – which includes unlimited talk, text, and 3GB of high-speed data per month – is now available on all Mint Mobile plans. The announcement comes as part of Mint Mobile’s ongoing efforts to... Read more »

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Ofcom’s consumer protections ‘fall vastly short’

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:06:12 +0000

Ofcom has introduced new rules aimed at better protecting UK mobile customers against unexpected roaming charges while using their phone abroad and at home. Following the UK’s exit from the European Union, EU ‘roam like at home’ rules – and UK law requiring mobile operators to alert customers of roaming charges when they start to... Read more »

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AI to curtail revenue leakage in 5G roaming connections

Ryan Daws — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:34:55 +0000

According to Juniper Research, AI solutions will curtail “revenue leakage” in 5G roaming connections. The research suggests that average revenue leakage per 5G roaming connection will decrease from $1.72 to $1.20. This significant reduction is attributed to the strategic implementation of AI-based segmentation by telecom operators, marking a pivotal advancement in monetising data-centric users. Revenue... Read more »

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Half of Brits think European roaming fees are ‘unfair’

Ryan Daws — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:18:07 +0000

Half of Brits think it’s unfair they have to pay additional charges for using their mobile devices while travelling elsewhere in Europe. That was the key finding from a survey conducted by Virgin Media O2. As it’s keen to point out, it was the only UK operator not to reintroduce EU roaming fees post-Brexit. Gareth... Read more »

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Martin Lewis wants roaming charges to be regulated

Ryan Daws — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:54:10 +0000

MoneySavingExpert’s Martin Lewis wants roaming charges to be regulated amid rocketing living costs. UK RPI inflation has reached 11.7 percent, the highest in the G7, and is set to increase further later in the year. People up and down the country are increasingly struggling to make ends meet and the UK Government is widely seen... Read more »

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Lumine Group snaps up connectivity monetisation firm TOMIA

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:00:57 +0000

Lumine Group, a division of Volaris Group focused on the communications and media vertical, has acquired TOMIA, an innovator in global connectivity monetisation solutions. TOMIA’s software optimises and orchestrates critical inter-carrier business processes including data and financial clearing, network roaming, real-time campaign management and interconnect solutions. Many of the industry’s leading service providers are said... Read more »

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Vodafone UK waives Ukraine call and roaming fees

Ryan Daws — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:54:32 +0000

Vodafone UK is waiving all call fees to Ukraine in addition to providing free data roaming to customers in the country. Ahmed Essam Shelbaya, CEO of Vodafone UK, tweeted: In addition to the decision to help people keep in touch with their loved ones, Vodafone is making a donation to relevant humanitarian efforts. “We will... Read more »

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Virgin Media O2 humiliates rivals by not reinstating EU roaming fees

Ryan Daws — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:31:59 +0000

Virgin Media O2 is taking a playbook once written by rival Three and will buck the trend of reinstating EU roaming charges. Gareth Turpin, Chief Commercial Officer of Mobile at Virgin Media O2, said: “We’re starting the year by giving our customers some certainty: we will not be reintroducing roaming fees in Europe for customers... Read more »

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Misidentification of roaming data set to cost operators $484M this year, $2.1B by 2026

Ryan Daws — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:23:28 +0000

A new study by Juniper Research highlights the losses that operators are expected to incur from misidentifying roaming data traffic. This year, the company’s analysts estimate that operators globally will miss out on $484 million. While certainly not unsubstantial, it’s relatively small change compared to the years ahead. By 2026, Juniper Research projects the losses... Read more »

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Juniper Research: Users of 5G roaming services will surpass 200M by 2026

Ryan Daws — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:36:34 +0000

According to a study by Juniper Research, the number of 5G roamers is set to surpass 200 million by 2026. While much of life slowed to a crawl during the pandemic, the 5G rollout continued at pace. With the worst of the pandemic hopefully behind us, operators are now ramping up their deployments even further.... Read more »

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