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Telefonica has unveiled a pan-European data roaming tariff for smartphone subscribers, offering 25MB of data usage for 2 EUR a day.
The Spanish-owned operator group said the new tariff protects customers from “bill shock” and is also significantly below the new price caps announced by the European Union last week. As a reminder, EU ruled that a mobile data cap will be set at 0.70 EUR per megabyte from this summer and will then fall in stages to 0.45 EUR in 2013, and then 0.20 EUR on July 1st, 2014.
Back to Telefonica’s EU tariff… O2 Germany customers will be the first ones to get it, followed by other O2 and Movistar markets in Spain, UK, Ireland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, where folks will be able to get the same deal at some point this summer.
According to Telefonica, that 25 megs is good for 250 visits to “essential websites” and up to 500 emails, excluding attachments. Customers exceeding 25MB will be immediately notified…
Needless to say, we expect other major operator groups like Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and Three to follow shortly with similar tariffs.
[Via: MobileBusinessBriefing]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
