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Pricing AnalysisKPN increases roaming charges outside the EU [Subscription required]Published: Thu 8 July 2010KPN Mobile has lowered its roaming voice rates in line with the EU directive stating that this had to be done by July 1st 2010. From this time, the following EU roaming charges ...  The first iteration of the SmartPhone Tariff Tracker reveals the launch of new mass market tariffs in developed and developing countries [Subscription required]Published: Fri 2 July 2010The iPhone Tariff Tracker first established in 2009 has now been incorporated into the SmartPhone Tariff Tracker. The Tracker has been continuously enhanced and now features ... Tesco offers 12-month contract for iPhone 4, others 18 months [Subscription required]Published: Thu 24 June 2010Tesco, one of the six providers in the UK, is offering the iPhone 4 which will be available from tomorrow. Its entry product is GBP 20 per month on a 12-month contract, a term its ... Swedish mobile operators remove data cap on domestic plans [Subscription required]Published: Wed 23 June 20103 in Sweden removed the 20 GB data limit from the Bredband Max plan following the same move by competitor Tele 2 when it removed the 10 GB cap on its Large plan. 3's ... Capped roaming charges in Bahrain [Subscription required]Published: Mon 21 June 2010Regulator TRA has announced that it plans to cut roaming rates with effect from 1st September 2010. This follows an agreement by the GCC Telecommunications Ministers ... O2's SmartPhone tariffs include voice and data [Subscription required]Published: Fri 18 June 2010O2 UK has launched a range of SmartPhone tariffs that consist of voice and data allowance and these replace those with the unlimited data allowances similar to a move adopted by ... New promotion from Orange offers 60 free roaming minutes [Subscription required]Published: Thu 17 June 2010Orange Austria has announced is promotion aimed at its postpaid subscriber base which needs to be activated by no later than the end of July 2010 offering 60 free roaming minutes ... New Competition in the Irish mobile market, 20 cent a minute compared to 29 cent from other operators [Subscription required]Published: Mon 14 June 2010Vodafone is the provider of the network to the newly launched MVNO postfone in Ireland which is a unit of the post office. It offers a flat rate of Euro 0.20 per minute for ... Roaming prices to come down, cheaper to call back home from Iceland to the UK than from Ireland [Subscription required]Published: Thu 10 June 2010T-Mobile UK has announced that it to make changes to its roaming prices with effect from 28th June 2010. A part of the change complies with the European Union regulations to ... Fixed to Mobile rates in Ireland move to one rate for all networks, remain more expensive in peak hours than some of its neighbouring countries [Subscription required]Published: Mon 7 June 2010eircom, the fixed Irish incumbent operator, announced changes to its telephone prices coming into effect on 1st July 2010 representing an approximate 3 per cent increase in bills. ... 3 cuts roaming charges for those going to South Africa - MTN South Africa targets fans with attractive SIM offer [Subscription required]Published: Sun 6 June 20103 anouncd that it is to offer more attractive rates during the WorldCup. Data roaming charges have been cut by 50 per cent to GBP 1.25 per 1 MB. Also roaming voice charges hae ... iPad tariffs [Subscription required]Published: Wed 26 May 2010A number of operators have announced the pricing for iPad services. Here is an overview of some the latest launches: GERMANY (Prices are in Euros and include tax at 19 per ... Average Blended ARPU fell by 2.8 per cent in 2009 to Euro 23.90 for the 417 million mobile subscribers in 8 European countries. [Subscription required]Published: Thu 20 May 2010A new bi-annual subscription service from TCL called ‘MNO Trends in Europe 2010' shows that the main European markets are still seeing overall growth in mobile subscribers ... Roaming Day Rate from Orange in Switzerland [Subscription required]Published: Tue 2 March 2010Orange in Switzerland too has now announced the launch of the 2 MB Daily Data Roaming Tariff available for CHF 4. Each MB thereafter is charged at CHF 2.00 (Euro 1.37). This ... ADSL offers improve in Belgium from 1st March 2010 [Subscription required]Published: Thu 25 February 2010Source: Tariff Consultancy Ltd's ADSL Tariff Tracker to be launched in 1st quarter 2010 Belgacom announced new Internet products with effect from 1st of March 2010 for new ... Etisalat simplifies roaming charges [Subscription required]Published: Fri 19 February 2010Etisalat has changed its roaming charges for roamers. It now offers a unified and flat rate. It further has new roaming rates as well as new zoning structure, these being GCC ... Swisscom's profit up by 10 per cent, biggest growth in 2010 from IT and TV services [Subscription required]Published: Thu 18 February 2010Swisscom's results showed a 1.6 per cent reduction in its revenue but profits rose nearly by 10 per cent, the headline of the 2009 result presentation , 'better than feared'. The ... Germany: Calls to premium numbers are capped at Euro 0.42 following new regulation [Subscription required]Published: Wed 17 February 2010The new regulation in Germany set by the Bundesnetzagentur for premium calls (using the code 0180) made from mobile phones has set an upper ceiling of Euro 0.42 per minute. ... Mucho mobile launches in Switzerland [Subscription required]Published: Tue 16 February 2010Mucho mobile has launched a mobile operation in Switzerland as a MNVO using the Swisscom Mobile network, Swisscom already is involved with MVNOs Budget and Migros Mobile. ... Orange Poland's Mobile broadband charges decrease in [Subscription required]Published: Tue 9 February 2010Orange Poland offers a lower price for those customers who bring their own USB modem. Pricing is below: Tariff Rental Discounted rental Included data ... Premium call charges go up in the UK [Subscription required]Published: Mon 8 February 2010Vodafone UK currently charges anything from GBP 0.35 to GBP 1.85 for calls to premium services., this is to be changed though, it has announced a new price structure with effect ... Vodafone launches a no frill brand in Germany [Subscription required]Published: Fri 5 February 2010Vodafone has launched no frill mobile brand called 'otelo'. Its three competitors all already offer services under a no frill brand, refer to the table below: Operator Sub ... Roaming prices increase [Subscription required]Published: Fri 5 February 2010The latest quarterly update of Tariff Consultancy Ltd's Global Roaming Tariff Tracker reveals that prices have been increased by a number of operators. Here are some of the ... The rise in TV channel bundles by Triple Play providers during 2009 & the emerging threat from Cable TV [Subscription required]Published: Thu 4 February 2010Source: Triple Play JournalTV channels have become a feature of the Triple Play service provided throughout Europe. However, unlike the USA, European Triple Play operators have ... New Business Tariff Plan from Orange Switzerland [Subscription required]Published: Wed 3 February 2010Swiss mobile operator Orange has launched a new offering aimed at the enterprise market. The plan called 'Enterprise Optima and Optima Services" offers free calling within ... Vodacom launches Rand 2 (euro 0.189) recharge voucher [Subscription required]Published: Tue 2 February 2010The African Mobile Tariff Tracker service first published in 2006 and updated every quarter since reveals that the majority of price changes for services across the African ... Music prices across Vodafone markets vary, Vodafone signs up 450k music users in 8 markets [Subscription required]Published: Sun 31 January 2010Vodafone claims that it has attracted 450,000 customers to its music services across 8 of its markets including Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and ... Community-based price plan from TIM Brasil [Subscription required]Published: Thu 28 January 2010New postpaid plan from TIM Brasil TIM Brasil has launched a new tariff called ‘Infinity Zero'. This initially a promotional, long term one off tariff whereby customers just ... Low cost IDD rate from Oman, even cheaper from Qatar to abroad [Subscription required]Published: Tue 26 January 2010Friendi Mobile, the new MVNO mobile brand in Oman since mid last year, has announced new low cost IDD rates, which match current rates offered by Nawras. Pricing for some ... SMS outside Europe can cost over 1 Euro (EC cap is Euro 0.11) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 21 January 2010SMS messages are included in the new EU roaming regime from July 2009. Each SMS message is subject to a 0.11 Euro cent retail cap, with a 0.04 Euro cent wholesale cap also being ... Du offers Video On Demand [Subscription required]Published: Wed 20 January 2010Du in the UAE has entered the world of VOD (Video On Demand) in partnership with a UK-based content provider called ‘On Demand Group' (http://www.ondemand.co.uk). This means ... O2 UK to offer home broadband [Subscription required]Published: Tue 19 January 2010O2 has announced a major change of direction by signalling its intention to enter the home telephony market. As of March 2010, the mobile network operator will offer home phone to ... iPhone offers in France now more attractive than 18 months ago [Subscription required]Published: Wed 13 January 2010Orange France has reported that it sold 200,000 iPhones during the month of December 2009. This equates to over 6,000 per day. Given that Christmas is a buoyant time of year ... Mobile Broadband in Austria is competitively priced, 19 GB for 19 Euros [Subscription required]Published: Fri 8 January 2010Austria has for some time now been an extremely competitive mobile telecoms market. In terms of GSM, penetration is approaching 130 per cent. Although, concrete figures of Mobile ... Tariffs for those with disabilities [Subscription required]Published: Wed 6 January 2010Several mobile operators provide tariffs for customers who have disabilities such as if they are visually impaired, hard of hearing of if they have a physical disability. ... Additional data options from Maxis Malaysia [Subscription required]Published: Tue 5 January 2010Maxis subscribers in Malaysia will be able to sign up to additional data volume options valid for 30 days such as: (users to its mobile broadband services have a FUP attached, ... Vodafone announced iPhone launch in the UK [Subscription required]Published: Tue 22 December 2009Vodafone UK is to launch the 3G iPhone on 14th January 2010, available through its stores and Online. Initially, tariffs will be available to postpaid consumers and to small ... 4G pricing [Subscription required]Published: Thu 17 December 2009Telia reveals 4G pricing Telia has unveiled pricing for its newly acquired 4G mobile licence. From the 15th December 2009, the mobile operator began shipping out its 4G modem that ... Mobile broadband prices in the Middle East [Subscription required]Published: Thu 17 December 2009Snapshot of Middle East Mobile Broadband He following is a look at some of he key Mobile Broadband providers in the Middle-East as taken from TCLs ‘Mobile ... Mobile price plan aimed at the football community [Subscription required]Published: Tue 15 December 2009MTS Russia has launched a new tariff plan that targets supporters of a football club. This particularly community-based tariff is aimed at supporters of the football club Zenit St ... iPhone distribution points expand in the UK [Subscription required]Published: Fri 11 December 2009Tesco, the largest supermarket in the UK has announced that it is to begin selling the iPhone from 14th December 2009. This will include selling the new iPhone 3G device. The cost ... Orange pushes applications in France and UK [Subscription required]Published: Wed 9 December 2009Orange has launched the ‘Orange App Shop' in France and in the UK. Opening in 2010, this will give users direct access, search facilities and browsing to over 5,000 ... iPhone price benchmark [Subscription required]Published: Tue 8 December 2009Comparing six EU countries from Tariff Consultancy Ltd's iPhone Tracker, the table below shows the highest value tariffs (in terms of rental) . : ... Mobile Broadband prices in the UK drop further [Subscription required]Published: Tue 8 December 2009The UK Mobile Broadband market is hotting up following the decision by 3 UK to reduced the rental for its Mobile Broadband tariff ‘Broadband Lite'. The new rental is GBP ... Australia - a crowded 3G iPhone market [Subscription required]Published: Wed 2 December 2009Most mobile markets have about two or even one carrier that provides the 3G iPhone service to consumers. This is down to Apple initially only discussing deals with the incumbent ... Orange CH enters mobile gaming market [Subscription required]Published: Tue 1 December 2009Orange Switzerland has announced a first for the Swiss market by launching a mobile gaming bundle. Starting from CHF 109.00, the ‘Yari' gaming phone from Sony Ericsson, a ... Typical call promotion from Orange Spain [Subscription required]Published: Tue 1 December 2009Orange Spain is currently running a promotion for both its prepaid and postpaid customers called ‘Disfruta tu fin de Semana' (Enjoy the Weekend'. This gives free calls to ... Italian operators set Mobile Broadband pace [Subscription required]Published: Thu 26 November 2009Vodafone Italy claims to have launched a new USB modem which it claims will provide 28 Mbit/s Mobile Broadband. Like most broadband services, these speeds are restricted to ... Cosmote offers no restriction on music downloads [Subscription required]Published: Wed 25 November 2009Greek mobile operator Cosmote is allowing its customers to download full length music tracks music tracks and albums without copyright restrictions by technologies for access ... BlackBerry price plans including Roaming [Subscription required]Published: Mon 23 November 2009The following price comparison is derived from TCL's recently published ‘Blackberry Pricing Survey' in October 2009, which benchmarked pricing for a ... Unlimited mobile music tariffs [Subscription required]Published: Fri 20 November 2009Following the launch of the 3G iPhone, it would be correct to say that this was the key way of purchasing a monthly music subscription bundled in with voice and data. However, it ... Unlimited tariff now from Wind Hellas (Greece) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 19 November 2009Greek mobile operator Wind Hellas has launched an unlimited all inclusive tariff that gives customers voice, SMS/MMS and data combined in the one package. Details of the ... Music downloads price benchmark [Subscription required]Published: Wed 18 November 2009Price comparison of music download in 8 key EU markets Following the launch of the 3G iPhone, the importance of mobile music availability has been highlighted. The table ... Orange UK launches iPhone [Subscription required]Published: Tue 17 November 2009O2 (UK) receives first iPhone competitor Following the launch of the 3G iPhone by O2 on 10th November 2009 by Orange, this means that O2 has encountered its first competitor to ... Increased allowance from Orange Poland [Subscription required]Published: Fri 13 November 2009Orange revises Mobile Broadband allowances Orange Poland has revised its Mobile Broadband (data usage from a USB/Laptop) tariffs in an attempt to challenge the other mobile ... MVNO Nomi promotes free international calling for 1 hour on Saturday [Subscription required]Published: Thu 12 November 2009Nomi Mobile, the UK low cost IDD provider that targets the immigrant community is running a two-months a promotion ending 31st December 2009. Here, customers will receive free ... Mobile Broadband Package includes roaming [Subscription required]Published: Wed 11 November 2009Operator 3 has launched the ‘3D Data Flat' price plan including unlimited connections within Austria and when roaming* in the countries where 3 has operations including ... Mobile TV price comparison of 8 EU markets [Subscription required]Published: Tue 10 November 2009The following comparison is intended to give a snapshot of the Mobile TV pricing in 10 key EU markets. This looks at standard, monthly mobile TV packages, which will exclude any ... Calling from mobiles under 10 cent a minute [Subscription required]Published: Fri 6 November 2009A look at the German low frills marketFollowing the move by Ring.de, the German MVNO focussing on the low cost end of the market to offer free SIM cards to customers, tariff ... SMS comparison of 10 EU markets [Subscription required]Published: Thu 5 November 2009The following is intended to give a snapshot of the SMS pricing in 10 key EU markets. This looks at standard SMS, which will exclude any SMS bundles or special offers. ... Unlimited Internet and SMS for any recharge of £10.00 [Subscription required]Published: Wed 4 November 2009UK prepaid market heats up In the run up to Christmas, the UK mobile market for prepaid customers is hotting up and a battle for acquiring customers is now on. This follows the ... ADSL / Broadband pricing in Europe [Subscription required]Published: Tue 3 November 2009A snapshot of ADSL pricing in key European marketsLast week, the UK ISP PlusNet announced the launch last week of a GBP 5.21 (Euro 5.83) per month standalone fixed broadband ... UAE gets another Mobile TV service [Subscription required]Published: Sat 31 October 2009The UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has agreed to issue a ten-year mobile TV licence to the Emirates Mobile Television Corporation consortium. This has ... Orange continues to grow Mobile Broadband user base [Subscription required]Published: Fri 30 October 2009In releasing its Q3 2009 financial results, Orange has reported another increase in 3G Broadband customers. At the end of September 2009, the number of 3G broadband customers ... Mobile TV from DNA in Finland [Subscription required]Published: Tue 27 October 2009Dna has become the second mobile operator in Finland to launch a Mobile TV service and will therefore compete with Sonera. Key to the launch in the fact that the service will ... International calling from mobiles is becoming attractive too [Subscription required]Published: Mon 26 October 2009International calling has faced increasing pressure over the past few years due to the presence of calling cards, VoIP, ethnic MVNOs and MVNOs and now too mobile operators. ... Mobile music market hots up in the United Kingdom [Subscription required]Published: Thu 22 October 2009Following the announcement by 3 UK that is to offer the mobile music service ‘Spotify Mobile', the mobile operator has signalled its intent to challenge the iPhone in the ... 21.6 Mbit/s super speed Mobile Broadband now available in Portugal [Subscription required]Published: Wed 21 October 2009In Portugal, the key mobile carriers remain locked in a fierce battle for market share in what is ferociously competitive. Now, the main mobile operators of TMN, Vodafone and ... Mobile TV continues to be pushed by Spanish mobile operators [Subscription required]Published: Tue 20 October 2009The Spanish mobile operators Movistar and Vodafone have both added to the list of Mobile TV channels by offering ‘Gol TV' as both continue to push their respective services. ... New types of international Mobile Data & Voice Roaming Products [Subscription required]Published: Thu 24 September 2009Operators seeking to recoup some of their lost revenue by the introduction of new types of international voice and data roaming products. Below is a selection of these: The ... Competition hotting up in Albania [Subscription required]Published: Thu 24 September 2009The third Albanian mobile operator Eagle Mobile owned by a Turkish consortium and launched services in March 2008, has attracted some 385,000 customers in its first year of ... Mobistar in Belgium launches iPhone TV service [Subscription required]Published: Thu 24 September 2009Mobistar has launched HD (High Definition) technology for its i-Phone 3G service. HD technology means that Mobistar will be able to streaming TV channels at 200 Kbit/s. This comes ... Roaming becomes dearer [Subscription required]Published: Mon 14 September 2009T-Mobile UK has announced that it is to inrease its roaming charges for calls made outside the EU from 26th October, it will make changes to its roaming charges applying to ... New way of pricing SMS [Subscription required]Published: Mon 14 September 2009New way of charging for SMS ‘Diet SMS' Country: IndiaOperator: Tata DocomoTata Docomo has introduced a new way of charging ‘pay per character a character is ... Pricing for calls made on planes [Subscription required]Published: Mon 14 September 2009OnAir announced in March of this year that since 2007 when its service became available the 10,000 flight that provided Mobile OnAir services was between Lisbon and Munich. The ... Prepaid and Postpaid Blackberry Services [Subscription required]Published: Mon 7 September 2009Tariff Consultancy Ltd is currently benchmarking pricing of BlackBerry services offered to the consumer/SoHo/SME markets. BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device that was ... Trends in SMS bundling [Subscription required]Published: Fri 21 August 2009Mobile operators are providing increased SMS bundles to attract new subscribers, usually as an alternative to voice bundles to attract high text users. A number of operators have ... Cable TV as a provider of low cost Triple Play services [Subscription required]Published: Thu 6 August 2009Cable TV providers are increasingly introducing high speed Broadband and Telephony services as well as the TV service. With the introduction of DOCSIS 3.0 over coaxial access ... The role of loyalty programmes [Subscription required]Published: Wed 15 July 2009Definition A loyalty programme is a means of providing a series of structured marketing efforts which allow consumers to identify the most profitable customers and reward loyal ... Vodafone UK's International SIM only product offering calls at 5 pence per minute [Subscription required]Published: Tue 7 July 2009Vodafone UK is to resume selling its postpaid contracts via the CarphoneWarehouse chain, it stopped selling them through the chain in 2006 after a dispute over the ... Family-type plans for mobile subscribers are on the increase [Subscription required]Published: Thu 18 June 2009Mobile providers are offering more sophisticated forms of bundled discounting disguised as community pricing. Price schemes are being targeted at precise groups, including the ... Lowest UK postpaid entry product from Orange [Subscription required]Published: Thu 4 June 2009SIM only for GBP 5 a month from OrangeFrom 1st June 2009, Orange offers a new set postpaid tariffs for GBP 5, 10 and 15 per month. The details for the three offers ... Calling in Africa varies from Euro 0.06 to Euro 0.30 per minute [Subscription required]Published: Mon 1 June 2009At the end of 2006, we forecast that the mobile market subscriber base in Africa is to reach by 2011 a penetration of slightly over 50 per cent, from the 20.3 per cent in 2006. ... Latest Mobile broadband prepaid service launches [Subscription required]Published: Wed 27 May 2009Our latest research on mobile broadband offerings now covering over 100 operators has just been completed. It reveals that prepaid offerings are on the increase. Below are the ... Vodafone UK roamers can communicate at the domestic rate for three months [Subscription required]Published: Fri 15 May 2009Vodafone UK has announced that its post- and prepaid subscribers can communicate - by voice, text and MMS - from 45 countries (EU, Norway, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand) ... Telenor Pakistan brings innovations to the market [Subscription required]Published: Wed 13 May 2009Source: Emerging Mobile Markets Report The mobile market in Pakistan has 6 active operators with 4 having 14 million plus subscribers and is seen as being highly price ... Developing competitive pricing propositions that will optimise ARPU and customer retention [Subscription required]Published: Sun 10 May 2009In the table below, the UK is unique in showing a general decline in ARPU during the past year, however, MNO ARPU is proving to be relatively resilient than churn which is far ... Family & Friends programme for Qatar mobile customers [Subscription required]Published: Sat 9 May 2009Qtel, the operator that is facing competition from Vodafone announced the launch of its Friends and Family services available to both the prepaid and postpaid subscriber. The ... Roaming SMS prices to drop by more than half in July 2009 [Subscription required]Published: Wed 29 April 2009The new roaming regulation as given in Table 1 has been passed and users will benefit from significant reductions over the coming 3 years including lower voice rate, lower data ... Prepaid mobile broadband launch from Yoigo in Spain [Subscription required]Published: Fri 24 April 2009Yoigo*, the network operator that entered the Spanish market as the fourth operator, announced the launch of the prepaid Day product. The prepaid card will be available for Euro 3 ... Price gap between Unbundled and Bundled Triple Play services has increased by five percentage points to 28 per cent over the last quarter [Subscription required]Published: Wed 22 April 2009The extract from Triple Play Journal provides details of the main triple play offerings in Switzerland (Fixed Line telephony; Broadband and IPTV) with a mobile option as ... 16 per cent growth in mobile minutes in New Zealand [Subscription required]Published: Wed 22 April 2009The Commerce Commission of New Zealand (ComCom) has released its latest statistics showing the Mobile penetration at 108 and that voice minutes have increased by 16 per cent ... Reward programme for those Batelco (Bahrain) users with highest mobile usage [Subscription required]Published: Wed 22 April 2009Batelco in Bahrian rewards 8,000 prepaid customers with its ‘Surprise Programme' during the month of April 2009. The promotion is based on usage during the first quarter of ... Mobile Pricing in the Middle East [Subscription required]Published: Tue 31 March 2009Competition has entered the Middle East and given subscribers more choice. Penetration rates are already relatively high except for Egypt where it is around the 50 per cent. The ... Roaming Tariff Trends [Subscription required]Published: Thu 19 March 2009Tariff Consultancy Ltd's latest update of the Global Roaming Tariff Tracker service now covering 75 operators in 52 countries reveals that a number of operators have increased ... Market Growth in Africa [Subscription required]Published: Fri 20 February 2009The ‘Emerging Mobile Market' report reveals a complete overview of the 34 Emerging Mobile Markets around the world. Rather than focus on the largest markets - frequently ... Price differences in bundled services vary between 8% and 35% [Subscription required]Published: Wed 18 February 2009Tariff Consultancy Ltd's Triple Play Survey published quarterly reveals that pricing levels for a bundled service versus the unbundled components (fixed line telephony, Broadband ... Prepaid Mobile Broadband services are less attractive [Subscription required]Published: Tue 17 February 2009Although all Mobile Broadband providers do offer Prepaid Mobile Broadband services - in general there are fewer products with less attractive pricing than for its contract ... Mobile TV still faces a series of clear challenges [Subscription required]Published: Fri 13 February 2009There remains continued price pressure in the market, with the average monthly price point for Mobile TV operators being below Euro 10 per month for a bundled service. In fact the ... International calling becomes cheaper from mobiles [Subscription required]Published: Mon 2 February 2009T-Mobile is promoting its international bundles available to postpaid subscribers only excluding business registered accounts for calling abroad.IDD calling is the focus for ... EU sets data roaming reductions [Subscription required]Published: Mon 2 February 2009The EU has set out proposals that will see lower data roaming prices when roaming in the EU. From July 2009, the maximum cost to send an SMS when roaming in the EU will be Euro ... 5 Euros for 1 minute roaming [Subscription required]Published: Mon 2 February 2009The deadline for the assessment of roaming data charges by the EU has arrived. Tariff Consultancy's weekly Mobile Pricing News publication illustrated the many changes that have ... |
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