Beating the roaming charges blues

The high cost of using smartphones and tablets across the European Union is set to be slashed under European Commission plans Wednesday to slash expensive roaming bills.In a season that often sees disgruntled users returning home from vacation only find shocking bills after calls and downloads in other EU nations, the European Commission announced a plan to extend price caps on roaming charges until 2016.It would also act to narrow the cost between domestic calls and those made across borders.

Travelling abroad is expensive enough already, but Canadian vacationers should be wary of one particularly costly travel expense: their mobile phone

An EU drive against high cross-border mobile telephone charges has halved prices, but operators are still making rich pickings and have raised charges in other regions, a survey found on Thursday."A main constraint on roaming usage is the lack of awareness by users, the chief executive of the TCL company behind the report Margrit Sessions said, commenting on the effects of an EU price cap.The report also said that operators had repackaged their pricing packages with the net effect of making "roaming services to the US or other countries relatively expensive."

In October 2011, the FCC and the nation’s major wireless providers agreed to put systems in place that would alert subscribers when they neared and passed thei

Mobile phone users are likely to get free roaming facility across India only by October 2013.

Mobile phone users are likely to get free roaming facility across India only by October 2013.

India’s 890 million mobile phone users could end up paying local call tariffs for making long distance calls, or STD in popular parlance, if roaming charges are abolished by telcos.