Orange and T-Mobile recently announced plans to merge their UK businesses, which may mean big changes for customers in both the long and short term. The merger between Orange and T-Mobile will have a large and clear impact on the mobile market in the UK and will have implications for investors, consumers and competitors alike.
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Orange T-Mobile Merger Will Change Everything
New rules force UK companies to reduce mobile roaming charges
In July 2008, What Consumer reported on European moves to force UK phone companies to lower the cost of texting and downloading data abroad. At that time consumers were paying up to 40p per text and £7.50 per megabyte for things like checking emails and accessing the internet. Although several companies did cut their prices [...]
July 5th, 2009 | Tony | 1 comment | Continued
Excessive Mobile Roaming Charges – The Latest
A year after the European Commission stepped in to introduce the Eurotariff, limiting the cost of overseas (roaming) call charges for European consumers, T-Mobile have announced they are slashing the cost of mobile internet (data roaming) charges by 80% from £7.50 per megabyte to just £1.50. In addition, they are also set to reduce the [...]
July 8th, 2008 | Catriona | 2 comments | Continued
Mobile Phones & Service Providers
There is a bewildering choice of phones, packages and deals available when buying a new mobile phone. It’s big business. It’s also top of the list when it comes to consumer complaints!
When choosing a new mobile, you are not only selecting the phone (or the handset), you are dealing with the retailer and choosing a [...]
