Roaming charges for those Members travelling about a bit may see the burden on their hip pocket lesson. Today the European Union announced plans to cap the costs for sending data, making calls, firing off an SMS while roaming. continued »

Mobile phone roaming fees have again made headlines after a UK man has been charged £11,000 ($21,852) for downloading four episodes of TV sitcom Friends.  The downloads - which were initiated while in the UK and free under the user's "unlimited" cellular broadband - were continued after the unnamed businessman travelled to Germany, automatically resuming but on the roaming networks per-megabyte ... continued »

In brief, the Samsung Ace runs on Sprint’s fast EVDO Rev. 0 and 1XRTT network. Unfortunately it does not support Rev. A and while roaming abroad you’re only getting GPRS. It’s a candy bar form factor with a decent size QWERTY keyboard and internal antenna; 5-way navigation button and thumb wheel for one-handed operation. Other features include Bluetooth 2.0; push ... continued »

With the latest Ofcom news, I find myself wishing that the UK mobile phone regulators could tackle petrol prices in their spare time; they've taken the UK networks to task over SMS message and data charges when users are roaming in Western Europe.  Last year EU regulations were pushed through that limited the carriers from charging more than £0.38/minute ($0.76) for ... continued »