France: New postpaid tariffs from SFR (05-02-2012 - Service: Mobile) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 5 February 2012SFR has announced the launch of new postpaid tariffs ranging from Euro 43.00 per month to Euro 69.90 per month at the top end. Pricing for these plans are in the table... 
Germany: New SmartPhone plans from SIMYO (02-02-2012 - Service: Mobile) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 2 February 2012SIMYO, the discount mobile operator in Germany has unveiled 2 new tariffs aimed at users of SmartPhones. Called ‘Paket 100’ and ‘Paket 200’, the former...
Austria: T-Mobile launches German-based tariff (01-02-2012 - Service: New Mobile Tariff) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 1 February 2012T-Mobile has launched a new tariff called ‘ALL INCLUSIVE GERMANY’ effective 1st February 2012. This is aimed at those customers that wish to call to Germany or at the...
Bahrain: TRA releases KPIs, PSTN declines by 7 per cent, mobile minutes increased by 86 per cent (31-01-2012 - Service: Misc) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 31 January 2012The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Bahrain has released Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) up to Q4 2010 and some for Q4 2011. The following points represent key...
Bahrain: Batelco reduces IDD rates (30-01-2012 - Service: Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 30 January 2012Batelco is running a promotion until 7th February whereby its prepaid (SimSim) customers can make calls to the GCC countries of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, U.A.E and Saudi Arabia for...
Japan: DoCoMo discounts LTE service (29-01-2012 - Service: LTE Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 29 January 2012DoCoMo is to run 2 promotions that offer incentives for customers using data services. Firstly, the ‘Xi2 Discount Campaign’ will run from 1st until 31st March 2012...
Algeria: Mobilis launches BlackBerry tariff (26-01-2012 - Service: Data) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 26 January 2012The Algerian operator Mobilis has launched ‘BlackBerry MobiCorporate’, a service aimed at business users. There are different price points available for the service...
Portugal: Vodafone launches Sinal Max (25-01-2012 - Service: Misc) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 25 January 2012Vodafone has launched ‘Vodafone Sinal Max’. This is a femtocell service that ensures mobile coverage (voice and data calls) in indoor locations. Often, mobile...
Qatar: Qtel launches Fibre ADSL (24-01-2012 - Service: ADSL) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 24 January 2012Qtel has launched ‘Qtel Fibre’, which is a high speed ADSL service available to those customers that live in ‘Qtel Fibre zones’. According to the...
Italy: TIM offers newspaper access with youth tariff (23-01-2012 - Service: VAS) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 23 January 2012TIM is currently offering new customers to its ‘TIM Young’ SmartPhone tariff with free inclusive access to the newspaper ‘Gazzetta Mobile’ provided that...
Austria: 3 increases data allowance (22-01-2012 - Service: Mobile Internet) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 22 January 20123 Austria has increased the allocated data allowance for its ‘Comfort’ SmartPhone tariff to 1 GB per month as opposed to the previous 100 MB. In addition, customers...
Australia: Telstra launches 4G device (19-01-2012 - Service: 4G LTE) [Subscription required]Published: Fri 20 January 2012Telstra has launched a dedicated 4G LTE SmartPhone called HTC Velocity 4G, which it claims is the worlds first 4G SmartPhone. Customers are being encouraged to be one of the...
Estonia: EMT launches new 4G tariffs (18-01-2012 - Service: 4G LTE) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 18 January 2012EMT Estonia has launched new 4G tariffs with the lowest monthly rental starting from Euro 34.94. Details of the two available tariffs are below: Name of tariff...
Saudi Arabia: STC launches Blackberry roaming packages (17-01-2012 - Service: Data Roaming) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 17 January 2012STC has launched a range of data roaming options aimed at those wishing to use the Internet and Blackberry devices whilst roaming. The options available vary from paying per day...
Albania: AMC launches super fast 3G (16-01-2012 - Service: Data) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 16 January 2012AMC, the Albanian mobile operator has upgraded its 3G Mobile Broadband network to 42 Mbit/s. This is based on HSPA + technology and applies to selected areas of the country. The...
Germany: SIMYO runs Internet promotion (15-01-2012 - Service: Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 15 January 2012SIMYO is running a promotion until 31st January 2012 whereby new connections to the ‘Internet Flat’ options will receive the first month for free. There are three...
France: ARCEP conducts mobile price study (12-01-2012 - Service: Regulation) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 12 January 2012ARCEP, the French telecoms regulator has released data from its study of mobile prices in the French mobile market from 2006 to 2010. The data shows that there was an average...
Germany: O2 has unveiled new rates for its SmartPhone service [Subscription required]Published: Wed 11 January 2012As reported yesterday by TCL, O2 Germany is launching new DSL tariffs. These can be purchased either individually or combined with a fixed telephony service. A full explanation...
Germany: O2 launches new FMC tariffs (10-01-2012 - Service: FMC) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 10 January 2012O2 Germany has launched a range of FMC tariffs based on Broadband usage effective 17th January 2012. Called ‘Alice’, the following tariffs are available:...
Greece: Vodafone increases Mobile Broadband tariffs (09-01-2012 - Service: Data) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 9 January 2012Vodafone Greece is to refresh its Mobile Broadband tariffs effective 23rd January 2012. This will result in the increase of the monthly rentals. The table below shows the tariffs...
Austria: A1 offers SMS parking service (08-01-2012 - Service: New VAS) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 8 January 2012A1 has launched a mobile parking service in Wolfsburg. This allows customers in the city to pay for their car parking via an SMS or via an app for the iPhone. To purchase car...
Hungary: Telenor sees increase in MMS usage (05-01-2012 -Service: Data) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 5 January 2012Telenor has reported that the number of MMS messages sent on its network during Christmas and New Year increased by 11 per cent to 176,000. In total, its customers...
Estonia: Reduced rates in USA (04-01-2012 - Service: Roaming promotion [Subscription required]Published: Wed 4 January 2012EMT is currently running a promotion offering roamers with reduced rates in the USA when using the T-Mobile network. As part of the promotion, roamers will pay Euro 1.10...
UK: O2 launches social call App (03-01-2012 - Service: Content) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 3 January 2012O2 has launched a new downloadable app for use by customers with SmartPhones and Android devices. Once downloaded, this to make international calls at UK landline prices. The...
Armenia: Orange offers free calls to one number (02-01-2012 - Service: Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 2 January 2012Orange Armenia is running a promotion whereby customers can make voice calls to one chosen Orange number for life. Available to ‘Let’s Talk’ and ‘Every...
Brazil: Mobile prices fall by 41% (22-12-2011 - Service: Regulation) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 22 December 2011According to the Brazilian Telecoms Regulator (Telebrasil), mobile telecoms pricing has fallen over the past 2 years. The average call price per minute is now at around BRL 0.20,...
Germany: Maxxim offers credit promotion (21-12-2011 - Service: Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 21 December 2011Maxxim, the German discount mobile provider owned by Drillisch Telecom is running a promotion whereby new connections to the ‘maXXim 8 cents plus’ tariff will receive...
Colombia: Fixed to mobile calls to reduce (20-12-2011 - Service: PSTN) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 20 December 2011The Colombian Telecoms Regulator (CRC) has announced that there will be a reduction for fixed to mobile calls as well as SMS messaging. Subsequently, from 1st January 2012,...
France: SFR offers Facebook recharge (19-12-2011 - Service: Prepaid) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 19 December 2011SFR has launched a service whereby its prepaid customers can recharge their accounts via Facebook. This can be done visit the url www.facebook.com/sfr with the value being added...
Ireland: Comreg in favour of termination cuts (18-12-2011 - Service: Fixed PSTN) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 18 December 2011Comreg, the Irish telecoms regulator has welcomed a proposal by eircom, the incumbent operator to reduce interconnection rates for the period from 1st July 2012. This will...
Italy: Vodafone offers Christmas promotions (15-12-2011 - Service: Handsets) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 14 December 2011Vodafone Italy is running a promotion for Christmas called ‘Christmas Card’. There are two variations of this either ‘Christmas Card Messagi’ or...
Cyprus: Create your own tariff from CYTA [Subscription required]Published: Tue 13 December 2011Cytamobile-Vodafone has introduced a new postpaid tariff called ‘MakeYourOwn. Available to new and existing customers, the conditions are that they pay Euro 2 (USD 2.60)...
Armenia: Orange runs handset promotion (12-12-2011 - Service: Promotions) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 12 December 2011Orange is running a promotion whereby a range of SmartPhone handsets for the price of AMD 1.00 for new connections to its Dolphin, Panther or Butterfly tariffs over 12 or 24...
Australia: Vodafone launches business service (11-12-2011 - Service: FMC) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 11 December 2011Vodafone has launched a service called ‘Vodafone Unite’. This is aimed at business customers to divert calls from their fixed line phone number directly to their...
Denmark: Telenor expands roaming option (10-12-2011 - Service: Roaming [Subscription required]Published: Sat 10 December 2011Telenor has expanded the coverage of its 'Travel Tale (Travel Talk)' voice roaming, which is aimed at business customers. Previously, this offered cost savings of up to 30...
Bahrain: VIVA offers BlackBerry Traveller (08-12-2011 - Service: Roaming) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 8 December 2011VIVA Bahrain has launched a new roaming option called ‘Blackberry Traveller’. Aimed at business customers only, the option costs BHD 10.00 (USD 26.43) per month and...
Bahamas: 4G launch in the Bahamas (07-12-2011 - Service: G4) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 7 December 2011The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has launched 4G services as well as opening a flagship store in The Mall at Marathon in the Nassau capital. These services are...
The latest report on LTE from Tariff Consultancy finds that (06-12-2011 - Service: LTE) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 6 December 2011Average LTE Mobile Broadband pricing is around 50 Euro per month - TCL finds that LTE Mobile Broadband pricing – as of December 2012 – in the 27 MNOs in the survey...
Montenegro: M-Tel launches low value tariff (05-12-2011 - Service: Mobile Tariffs) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 5 December 2011M-Tel in Montenegro has launched a new tariff called ‘Package 8’, which has a monthly rental of Euro 8.00. As a promotion, customers that connect to the tariff and...
UK: BT hikes yet again its prices (04-12-2011 - Service: Fixed PSTN) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 4 December 2011From the 3rd of December 2011, BT’s 10 .5 million subscriber phase for a second time this year an increase it its rates. Competitors too have announced increases....
Belgium: Telnet launches SmartPhone tariffs (01-12-2011 - Service: Mobile) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 1 December 2011Telenet has launched ‘Walk & Connect’, which are a series of plans aimed at SmartPhone users. The available tariffs are in the table below: Name of...
Belgium: Telenet launches FreePhone Europe (30-11-2011 - Service: PSTN) [Subscription required]Published: Wed 30 November 2011Telenet, the Belgian fixed line provider has launched a tariff called ‘FreePhone Europe’. This offers inclusive calls to international countries. The tariff is for...
Belgium: 4G auction completed (29-11-2011 - Service: 4G) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 29 November 2011The Belgian regulator the BIPT has announced that the countries 4G auction has raised EUR 77.79 million from the sale of five 4G licences. The successful winners were Belgacom,...
Austria: A1 launches data roaming bundle (28-11-2011 -Service: Roaming) [Subscription required]Published: Mon 28 November 2011A1 has launched a data roaming option aimed at roamers who use their SmartPhone whilst abroad. Called ‘A1 Mobile Data Unlimited’, this is for use in 60 countries...
Azerbaijan: Azercell announced decreases in mobile internet rates (28/11/2011 - Service: Mobile) [Subscription required]Published: Sun 27 November 2011Azercell Telecom which launches 3G services on the 18th November announced lower mobile Internet tariffs. Azercell Telecom, which launched 3G services on 18 November 2011, has...
Mexico: Telmex reduces calling rates (25-11-2011 - Service: Fixed PSTN) [Subscription required]Published: Thu 24 November 2011Telmex, the Mexican fixed operator has announced that it will reduce its call rates from the 1st January 2012. From this time, the price per minute for calls from landlines to...
Egypt: Mobinil offers free Blackberry [Subscription required]Published: Wed 23 November 2011Mobinil is running a promotion whereby all postpaid customers will receive 3 months free BlackBerry access when they purchase the BlackBerry Bold 9900 at a price of EGP 4,399...
Italy: New Smart+ plans from Vodafone (23/11/2011) [Subscription required]Published: Tue 22 November 2011Vodafone Italia introduced new smartphone plans under the brand Smart+. The price plans available are given below. Those subscribers porting their numbers to Voice will receive a...
Australia: Telstra offers usage alerts for Smartphone users [Subscription required]Published: Mon 21 November 2011Telstra is to offer is ‘Freedom Connect’ tariff customers with free usage alerts that notify customers on Telstra’s popular ‘Freedom Connect’ mobile...
Austria: Smartphone promotions continue [Subscription required]Published: Sun 20 November 2011Red Bull Mobile, the MVNO controlled by A1 is running a Christmas Smartphone promotion in the run up to Christmas. Those that activate the ‘Simply All’ tariffs will...
New research into Mobile Data Pricing reveals data the data revenue is not able to compensate for the decline in ARPU in most established markets [Subscription required]Published: Fri 11 November 2011The key highlights of the just published Mobile Internet Usage & Pricing Worldwide - 2011 to 2016 – report TCL forecasts that Mobile Data Service revenue...
Average inclusive allowance is 102 MB reveals latest Mobile Voice Tariff Tracker [Subscription required]Published: Mon 31 October 2011The latest issue of the Mobile Voice Tariff Tracker covering pricing details for 2,101 post and prepaid plans offered by 149 operators in 88 countries reveals that 78 per cent of...
Fixed Tariff Tracker now features details of 785 offerings across the globe [Subscription required]Published: Sun 18 September 2011Extract from the latest update: Terms and conditions vary for each product. Click here for more details. Country Operators Customer Product...
Finland: Operators lower MTR rates [Subscription required]Published: Sun 17 July 2011dna Finland has announced that it has, along with the other Finnish mobile operators, agreed to lower MTR (Mobile Termination Rates). This is the cost that each network...
Belgium: Proximus lowers EU roaming rates [Subscription required]Published: Sat 16 July 2011Proximus, along with other EU mobile operators have announced the reduction in some of their roaming rates for customers travelling within the EU region. For example, when in the...
Germany: New data packs from Telefonica [Subscription required]Published: Fri 15 July 2011O2 Telefonica Germany will launch a new data pack called Smartphone Day Pack EU, to be used in the EU countries with effect from 1st August 2011. This pack for use by Smartphone...
Italy: Wind launches EU roaming plans [Subscription required]Published: Thu 14 July 2011Wind has launched a new roaming plan called ‘Daily Travel Europa’. This includes free outgoing calls when in the EU countries plus Croatia except from a call...
IPTV Pricing Trends [Subscription required]Published: Wed 13 July 2011The latest report from Tariff Consultancy Ltd entitled IPTV Pricing Trends reveals that the growth of IPTV has been triggered by the growth of broadband subscriptions, higher...
Malta: Vodafone's prepaid promotion [Subscription required]Published: Wed 13 July 2011Vodafone Malta uses the same concept as in the UK with its ‘freebies’. Freebies to choose from include double top up, free evenings & weekend calls and SMS &...
UK: Vodafone offers half price rental [Subscription required]Published: Tue 12 July 2011Vodafone UK is currently running a promotion offering customers that sign up to a 24-month contract with three months half price line rental for the first three months. The...
Malaysia: New instanet options from Celcom [Subscription required]Published: Mon 11 July 2011Celcom which claims to have 51 per cent of the Mobile broadband market in Malaysia has introduced anew brand ‘instanet’ focussing its message on affordable and...
Spain: New prepaid data package from Vodafone [Subscription required]Published: Sun 10 July 2011Vodafone Spain has introduced a prepaid flat rate plan for its BlackBerry subscribers. The weekly price of Euro 3.5 will give users access to the Messenger and other IM services,...
France: Orange has adjusted its smart plans [Subscription required]Published: Sat 9 July 2011French mobile operator Orange has announced new plans and adjusted its existing ones. The range nowincludes a plan for Euro 21.99 including 1.5 hours of calling plus unlimited...
Lebanon: New prepaid plan from Alfa [Subscription required]Published: Fri 8 July 2011Mobile operator Alfa owned by Orascom Telecom, has announced a new prepaid price plan called ‘Alfa Waffer’. According to the company’s CEO Marwan Hayek, the new...
Montenegro: New prepaid package aimed at tourists [Subscription required]Published: Thu 7 July 2011Mobile operator MteL has launched a new prepaid package called ‘Hello’ aimed at tourists. The starter kit is Euro 3 and offers Euro 3 of credit and additionally an...
Netherlands: Hi launches prepaid Hi Young [Subscription required]Published: Wed 6 July 2011The Hi brand owned by KPN has announced a new prepaid service called Hi Young, it has a dedicated website http://www.hiyoung.nl. The product aimed at the young youth market...
Qatar: Vodafone makes changes to Freedom and Business plans [Subscription required]Published: Tue 5 July 2011Vodafone announced two changes in the last 10 days for customers on the Freedom and Business World plans. Freedom customers will benefit now from free Family and Friends...
Canada: Telus is to cut rate roaming rates up to 60 per cent. [Subscription required]Published: Mon 4 July 2011Canadian operator Telus has announced that it is to cut its roaming rates by up to 60 per cent for both voice and data. With effect from the 27 separate roaming bundles or...
Malaysia: Low rates in 5 destinations from Celcom [Subscription required]Published: Sun 3 July 2011Since the 15 (Euro 0.22) per minute or SMS on five selected operators in five different countries namely: Bangladesh (Robi), Cambodia (Hello), Indonesia (XL) Singapore (M1) and...
New Zealand: Telekom promotes roaming with more attractive rates [Subscription required]Published: Sat 2 July 2011Telekom New Zealand has announced a reduction in roaming SMS rates through the introduction of a bundle for a period of time and has lowered the data roaming for good. A new...
Russia: New option for BlackBerry users [Subscription required]Published: Fri 1 July 2011Mobile operator Beeline has announced a new option for its corporate BlackBerry customers. This new option includes 100 MB for a monthly charge of RUB 1,990 (Euro 49); this...
Switzerland: New data roaming tariffs from incumbent Swisscom [Subscription required]Published: Thu 30 June 2011Swisscom has announced new data roaming rates to come into effect on 1 introduction of a cost limit service allowing customers to set an upper limit in their spend on data...
Singapore: SingTel's Priority Pass service [Subscription required]Published: Wed 29 June 2011At the time of mobile operator M1 announcing the launch of its LTE service in a number of areas with theaim to offer it nationwide by the first quarter of 2012, SingTel...
Finland: dna launches iPhone 4 [Subscription required]Published: Tue 28 June 2011dna Finland has announced the launch of the iPhone after it first announced the intended launch last month. The official date was 10th June when dna retail outlets as well as its...
Russia: Megafon lowers roaming rates to selected countries [Subscription required]Published: Mon 27 June 2011MegaFon has lowered the roaming prices to selected popular tourist destinations. From now, its customers that roam in Egypt, Italy or Switzerland will pay less than the standard...
UAE: Du launches Passport [Subscription required]Published: Sun 26 June 2011Operator Du is making the Passport services available within the GCC region, the subscriber will pay a cost of AED 5 (Euro 0.94) per call and then only 90 fils per minute. The...
Austria: Promotion for on-net calls from A1 [Subscription required]Published: Sat 25 June 2011A1 is running a promotion for its prepaid customers on the ‘B-FREE’ tariff until the 31st August 2011. Those that recharge their accounts by at least Euro 40.00 in a...
Egypt: Lower surfing rates when in the USA [Subscription required]Published: Fri 24 June 2011Vodafone in Egypt is running a special promotion during the months of June and July where it offers a fixed rate of EGP 15 (Euro 1.73) per day for those accessing the Internet via...
Bulgaria: New plans from Globul [Subscription required]Published: Thu 23 June 2011Globul has launched a range of new postpaid tariffs called ‘Globul Universe’. These provide inclusive minutes that can be used for national calling, International...
Denmark: 3 increases mobile broadband network [Subscription required]Published: Wed 22 June 20113 Denmark has increased its Mobile Broadband network to 32 Mbit/s download speed. This is subject to availability and will at present, be restricted to selected towns and cities....
New Zealand: New Mobile Internet options [Subscription required]Published: Tue 21 June 2011Over the last 6 to 12 months, many operators have launched mobile Internet add-ons for prepaid subscribers. The latest such offering is now available from Vodafone in New Zealand...
Germany: Vodafone lowers price LTE tariffs [Subscription required]Published: Mon 20 June 2011Vodafone D2 has lowered the monthly rental price of its LTE tariffs. The network speed and the inclusive data allowance remains the same. TCL analyst comments Vodafone D2...
Norway: Telenor launches new Mobile Broadband tariffs [Subscription required]Published: Sun 19 June 2011Telenor has announced that new Mobile Broadband plans will be available from 15th June which will replace the existing ones. The new plans include ‘Mobile super broadband...
Russia: New data plan from Megafon lowers [Subscription required]Published: Sat 18 June 2011MegaFon has launched a mobile Internet data-only option, which charges on a daily basis. Aimed at SmartPhone users. TCL analyst comments MegaFon has several mobile Internet...
UK: O2 allows top up via Facebook [Subscription required]Published: Fri 17 June 2011O2 has announced that its prepaid customers can recharge their accounts via the social networkingwebsite Facebook. From now, there is a dedicated Facebook page from O2 that allows...
South Africa: An All in One Voucher from Cell C [Subscription required]Published: Thu 16 June 2011Cell C in South Africa has announced the launch of its ‘All in One’ vouchers which can be used by prepaid and Controlchat customers. This voucher will allow them to...
Switzerland: Orange phases out plans introduced prior to 2006 [Subscription required]Published: Wed 15 June 2011Orange has announced that as part of its ‘MyCustomer’ strategy it will phase out the plans that were introduced prior to the year 2006. The new strategy will result in...
Bulgaria: M-Tel lowers data roaming usage [Subscription required]Published: Tue 14 June 2011M-Tel has launched two new data roaming bundles aimed at both consumer and business customers, which the mobile operator claims will lower the rate for using data whilst abroad....
Germany: Vodafone offers flat rate data roaming [Subscription required]Published: Mon 13 June 2011Vodafone D2 is offering a flat rate for its contract customers when roaming on 22 Vodafone networks worldwide. The option, called ‘Vodafone Passport Data’ applies to...
Netherlands: Vodafone offers International tariff [Subscription required]Published: Sun 12 June 2011Vodafone Netherlands has launched an International calling and SMS tariff for both its consumers and business customers. Called ‘Bel + SMS naar buitenland’, there is...
UK: Vodafone's new data roaming prices [Subscription required]Published: Sat 11 June 2011Vodafone announced that with effect from the 1st June, its customers can use up to 25 MB of data per day in 35 European countries. Other price options include the GBP 10 including...
UK: New IDD options from O2 [Subscription required]Published: Fri 10 June 2011A new option from O2 K branded ‘International Extras’ offers customers both postpaid and prepaid minutes for use to call fixed and mobile phones in seven countries...
Italy: MTV Mobile runs Mobile Broadband promotion [Subscription required]Published: Thu 9 June 2011MTV Mobile, the ItalianMVNO that is operated by TIM, is running a promotion until 31st December 2011. This enables customers to purchase a yearly subscription to its Mobile...
Australia: Telstra to stop excess usage charging [Subscription required]Published: Wed 8 June 2011Telstra has announced that it is to reduce the network speed with its Mobile Broadband plans rather than charge for excess data usage. This is to avoid a term called ‘bill...
Italy: New rechargeable SMS [Subscription required]Published: Tue 7 June 2011Incumbent operator TIM has announced the ‘All-inclusive Rechargeable sms’ service available for a fee of Euro 2 per week and offering 100 SMS which can be used to send...
Sweden: 3 launches Facebook alert service [Subscription required]Published: Mon 6 June 20113 Sweden has launched a Facebook Alert service that allows customers to check, update and reply to messages on their Facebook account. To update a current Facebook account or to...
FTTH Triple Play products [Subscription required]Published: Wed 25 May 2011Below we provide a summary of the FTTH Triple Play products available with pricing in table format (Extract from the Triple Play and Quad Play Journal) Figure 1 – A...
Latest pricing trends in mobile broadband pricing [Subscription required]Published: Wed 19 January 2011TCL’s latest issue of the ‘Mobile Broadband Tariff Tracker’ has highlighted some of trends given below: Users continue benefit from higher inclusive...
Etisalat - the latest telecoms provider to adopt Femtocel technology - is part of a growing trend of operators using Femtocels to improve mobile coverage [Subscription required]Published: Thu 18 November 2010The latest issue of the Free TariffWire published monthly by Tariff Consultancy Ltd - (click here to sign up for it) - reports that UAE fixed and mobile operator...
Orange launches Quadruple Play Services in France [Subscription required]Published: Wed 22 September 2010In September 2010, Orange announced the first launch of its Quad-Play service called Orange Open. Orange Open consists of a combined Broadband, VoIP, TV and mobile package....
Alice launches offer for Turkish users [Subscription required]Published: Sun 12 September 2010Alice Mobile, a German fixed provider, has launched a tariff in conjunction with Turk Telecom which is aimed at people living in Germany of Turkish origin. Called ‘Alice...
Triple Play subscribers can benefit from up to 35 per cent discount. [Subscription required]Published: Thu 12 August 2010In the latest Triple Play & Quad Play Journal, we find that the price gap between Unbundled and Bundled Triple Play services has slightly widened over the last quarter to the...
Latest trends in Mobile Music Pricing [Subscription required]Published: Mon 12 July 2010The latest edition of the Mobile Music Tariff Tracker reveals that a number of operators have now moved to offering an unlimited service priced between Euro 5 to Euro 10 per...
KPN 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...
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 39.5 39.50 (Euro 9.81)...
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 Brand...
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 Journal TV 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...
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...
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...
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 market Following 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 markets Last 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...
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...
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: India Operator: Tata Docomo Tata 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 Orange From 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...
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...
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...
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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