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T-Mobile To Cut European Mobile Data Roaming Charges

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Germany’s T-Mobile will cut data roaming charges and offer “enhanced web services” in a bid to boost data revenues, according to Reuters. At the MWC T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan told reporters the prices will kick in around the middle of the year. On Monday, European Union telecoms chief Viviane Reding said operators had until July 1 to let customers know just what they were being charged for using their mobiles to surf the web or send text messages while abroad in Europe. T-Mobile’s data roaming charge will cost 2 euros per megabyte, or for heavy data usage, customers can buy a day pass that will charge 15 euros for 50 megabytes. Prices for text messaging are still being decided. Other operators including Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Telefonica/O2 have already reduced data roaming prices.

—In other news, Akhavan revealed he’d seen demos of Google’s Android in action on the device T-Mobile plans to in the fourth quarter, calling the results “groundbreaking.”

Feb 12, 2008 9:56 AM ET

Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Companies, T-Mobile, Countries, Europe, Germany

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