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USSD is commonly used by prepaid GSM cellular phones to query the available balance. The vendor's "check balance" application hides the details of the USSD protocol from the user. On some pay as you go networks, such as Tesco Mobile , once a user performs an action that costs money, the user sees a USSD message with their new balance.
The mobile network is following EE in bringing back charges which were initially scrapped when the UK was still part of the EU in June 2017.
Under the 2012 Regulation, retail roaming capping charges expired in 2017 and wholesale capping charges expired in 2022. In mid-2009 there was also an €0.11 (excluding tax) maximum price for SMS text message included into this regulation. On 11 June 2013, the European Commission voted to end mobile roaming charges for the first time. [7]
The use of roaming SIM cards in its most common form is in normal voice applications such as mobile phone calls. The common application of roaming SIMs for voice is where mobile calls are automatically routed to, and made on, the least cost network. This typically means that incoming calls are free, no matter which network a mobile user is on.
Vodafone said that it was 'very sorry' that customers were hit with thousands of pounds in roaming charges and had their phone services cut off on Sunday.
The company told investors that total revenues declined by 4.7% to 11.2bn euros (£9.9bn) for the third quarter of its current financial year.
It required capping of retail and wholesale voice roaming charges from 30 August 2007, unless a special roaming tariff applied. The maximum prices was set to decrease further in 2008 and 2009. The regulation also required that customers travelling to another member state would receive a text message of the charges that apply for roaming ...
Vodafone India had partnered with both ICICI and ICICI bank, [51] ICICI launched M-Pesa on 18 April 2013. [52] Vodafone had planned to roll out this service throughout India. [ 53 ] The user needed to register for this service, registration was free and there were charges levied per M-PESA transaction for money transfer services and DTH and ...