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Taking a year out? Mind the financial gap
As the academic year draws to a close, thousands of young people are looking forward to a globetrotting trip. But in all the excitement of booking tickets and picking travel destinations, add to your planning list a rather less glamorous subject ... finances. Take the time out to make the most of your money and avoid cash hassles while on the move. Between 200,000 and (...)
Phones: Mobile networks raise minimum charge on pay-as-you-go tariffs
Millions of pay-as-you-go mobile phone customers have been hit with a sharp rise in the minimum price for making a call as networks attempt to claw back lost revenue, the Guardian can reveal. O2 and T-Mobile this week doubled the minimum connection charge for many of their prepay customers, while Vodafone imposed a more modest rise last month. In many cases these charges (...) (...) as networks attempt to claw back lost revenue, the Guardian can reveal. O2 and T-Mobile this week doubled the minimum connection charge for (...) (...) 183; O2 and T-Mobile double caller connection costs · Rises coincide with EU's cheaper roaming (...)
Fly Launches Dual SIM Handsets
Meridian Mobile has introduced a new line of handsets featuring the dual SIM technology for its flagship brand - Fly. The new line-up includes Fly V80, ...
Yes customer lands GBP 31k bill
Dobsyn, whose monthly bill is usually £150, ran up international roaming costs of £31000. Yes Telecom, which connects only Vodafone, has reduced Dobsyn’s ...
Batelco donation supports Deaf Society
The comprehensive solutions portfolio covers mobile services, international roaming, Broadband Internet, satellite services, WiFi, and MPLS IP-VPN based ...
Zain still has eyes on
... to collaborate on home services and content, as well as an agreement to put in place preferred international roaming within each other's footprint. ...
Ireland: Address by Minister Martin at a joint meeting of the ...
Whether it be the reduction of mobile phone roaming charges; the creation of the single euro payments area, which allows companies to make and receive ...
A Week in Wireless - Beggars can't be choosers
... GSM Association has responded in familiar fashion to EU telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding's latest plan to drive down data roaming charges in Europe. ...
Mobile firms 'winning the war' with fixed line rivals
Top of the list of pet hates of EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding is 'roaming' charges - the extra charge that appears on your bill if you have the ...
Should We Have Fixed Price Mobile Contracts?
The deadline for the networks to look at their roaming charges and SMS costs passed at the end of June, and in all likelihood we'll see some EU directive to ...
Sustainability primary goal for DNC's Robinson
This summer, Robinson is spending hours indoors, roaming the backstage of each DNC facility, choosing superefficient light fixtures and Earth-friendly ...
O2 launches Sierra Wireless Compass 885 USB modem in UK
... roaming for simple, reliable connectivity while travelling, with a small, minimalist design, and we're pleased to be able to deliver it first to O2 ...
EU ombudsman rules roaming procedure was too short
Mobile-phone companies including Vodafone Group and Telefónica, have said that the roaming regulation, which cut the rate companies charge travelers for ...
O2 launches Sierra Wireless USB modem
... and provides tri-band HSPA/UMTS support and quad-band GSM/EDGE support for global roaming. The O2 Business USB modem is available through O2 direct, ...
Inaugural program brings youth volunteers to museum
While Eggers and Post are roaming the museum, Tuesday volunteer Kathryn Richarson, 14, takes a different approach. She stands outside of the center behind a ...
Eclectic music revs up Rothbury's second day
Festival-goers, now acquainted with the site after 24 hours of roaming, seemed content to go where the day took them. Fans squinted into their sunlit cell ...
Dogs ditched as cost of living starts to bite
Three were found roaming the streets and two, possible siblings, were dropped off at the shelter by someone claiming to be the owner. ...
Physician to the stars ... of Como Zoo
"He'd hear about a buffalo roaming around and send us out," Doc said. "We went to Little Falls one time for a bull. This big old guy was snorting around and ...
Stopping the great escapes
Ms. Morton said farmed Atlantic salmon can learn to feed themselves and survive in the wild in three to four weeks, and can throw “a wrench in the gears� of ...
3 held for rape of Manila coed
He said there were 15 school buildings and 500 classrooms while there were only 45 security guards roaming the compound. The Commission on Higher Education ...