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Telecommunications When in roam...charge fair prices says ATUG
Telecommunications When in roam...charge fair prices says ATUG | When in roam...charge fair prices says ATUG |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 12 March 2008 | |
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"When the Atug board discussed this issue a few weeks ago the energy in the room rose dramatically as example after example was given of staff travelling overseas coming home with bills for mobile services in the hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for just using services that they use at home. The industry's promise is service anywhere at anytime. Atug's response is yes, but not at any price." She claimed that while local sim cards and phone cards might be suitable for consumers, "they are no answer for businesses". And noted also "The European Union has decided they are not an answer for consumer either." The ACCC has investigated international mobile roaming services and while the final report of that enquiry, announced in September 2005 , found prices to be high, it laid most of the blamed at the door of overseas carriers charging high rates to Australian carriers to terminate calls to Australian mobiles roamed onto their networks. These charges are beyond the ACCC's jurisdiction, but the ACCC noted that "concerns over prices for international roaming services have attracted attention in a number of international regulatory forums", and commissioner Ed Willet said: "The ACCC will...seek to find opportunities to assist these forums in their consideration of co-ordinated measures that could be undertaken by regulatory authorities to address concerns in relation to the provision of international roaming services". CONTINUED |
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