The recent move by the European Union to cap international mobile roaming charges is good news for end users across the EU. But will customers in the UK face higher bills when traveling after Brexit in 2019?
Here’s how the move will impact mobile users.
Chinese equipment supplier ZTE Corporation has agreed to pay a $892.4 million fine after pleading guilty to breaking U.S. trade sanctions against Iran and North Korea.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently announced that they are set to launch the latest Virgin Mobile MVNO operation.
The UK-based BT Group has been hit hard by an accounting scandal at its Italian business services subsidiary BT Italia.
The announcement by AT&T that it switched off its GSM network on January 1, 2017, means it is the latest in a line of operators who have moved away from 2G services.
But don’t wave goodbye just yet – there are a few 2G holdouts in the mix.
The mobile industry’s days of dizzying subscriber growth appear to be long gone. Double-digit growth was last seen in 2011; global user numbers are leveling off.
It is unlikely that any operator has made a bigger splash following its launch than Reliance Jio Infocomm in India.
The cellco issued a press release earlier this month claiming to have signed up 52 million customers in 83 days. That’s an average of over 626,000 net additions every 24 hours – or more than seven new users a second.
A planned auction of spectrum in the 694MHz-790MHz (700MHz) band in Sweden has been postponed, while the recent sale of frequencies in the same band in India attracted no bidders.
