The demonstration is abundantly fed statisticsPoor social relationsHis reflection begins with a dive in the pollsIn not considering the impact on the average would increase be 19 billionThe trial against the poor multiply000 and 700000 homes on the market here in two to six monthsThere are many reasons for their commitmentAnd there year poorly a majority to do soBut one which has targeted too just found in door to falseWith it people start to look at our rangeNot with the price of a barrel of oil boom"If the proposal of the Commissioner Viviane Reding to set a maximum for the calls in roaming tariff was accepted, it would reduce the annual turnover of approximately EUR 3.5 billion mobile operators." It would be good news for users of mobile companies, because the cost of their activities in Europe would be considerably lower ", explains in" les echos "Ed Vonk, the Director General of the EVUA (European Virtual Private Network User Association), a European association based in Britain and more than 70 multinational users - including PSA, Renault, L'Oreal, Thales, Société Générale or Total." Either a global fleet of more than 2 million mobile phones for an annual expenditure of the order of EUR 1 billion. The EVUA is also a member of INTUG (International Telecommunications Users Group), an association based in the Netherlands which unites the interests of a dozen national associations of users of Telecom, mainly in Europe, and denounced since 1999 rates of international mobile calls.
Even the Cigref, computer Club of large French companies, founder of EuroCIO (network of the directors of the European information systems), rebelled. "" Roaming in Europe costs are too high, prohibitive, even scandalous,"entrusted" les echos"its President Didier Lambert (ISD of Essilor)." Could the margins of the operators in this activity I think that transparency on costs and margins would appear the situation for the less abnormal ", he says." Even if they are struggling to be heard in cacophony surrounding the controversy on international mobile roaming rates, which are since 2001 in the sights of the European Commission, large companies are involved in the first place and want to make their voices heard. All that a multinational company spends more than 3.5 of its turnover in its telecommunications and networks. With the hope that the European Parliament vote "in April or may" a limitation of roaming tariffs applicable "to here in the summer" next, on the market of big but detail, large orders donors continue their lobbying community.
Viviane Reding is already expressed as early as June 2006, the Conference "ICT Strategies" of the EVUA in Brussels against the prohibitive tariffs of cross-border mobile calls that it intended to reduce by 70 percent. More recently, negotiations projected a ceiling of 0.50 cent euro per mobile minute issued abroad and 0,30 euro for the received mobile minute duty-free. In its contribution to the European Commission in April 2006, the INTUG noted that "the marginal cost of roaming" corresponded to wholesale to appeal international (between European countries), namely the order of 1 cent of euro, and a mobile endpoint of approximately 10 eurocents "." This group has therefore proposed a tariff of large maximum ("price cap") for the roaming of 20 above the national cost of mobile termination, or a dozen cents. The ball is since in the camp of the European institutions. Meanwhile a price control, large users believe that the attitude of the mobile operators is "counter-productive" and is "protectionism". Yet. "Despite their opposition to this decrease in calls mobile spent abroad, said Ed Vonk, is not bad news for mobile operators, because this will lead to an increase in their income as restrictions on the use of mobile in enterprises will be lifted."
"The EVUA also challenges the"naive"position of operators, which believe that competition is sufficiently developed to lower the price." Tariff reductions intervened, while mobile operators avoided the new proposed regulation. The pressure came at the initiative of the Commission, not competitive market ", said Ed Vonk." For the EVUA, with a reduction of 8 per year of cross-border roaming rates the customers will have to wait at least 20 years before these rates reach a near level fixed lines! "As long as the roaming will be expensive, 20 of users will extinct their mobile abroad", warns Ed Vonk. For him, "there is no technical reason" to the cost of calls to a country other than that of origin is still several times higher than that of national calls. As "90 of mobile communications are routed via fixed networks, not by a wireless network!". Mobile operators in particular reduced the cost of returns of their international calls, without, at the same time, users roaming rates fall. "My conclusion is that mobile operators do not affect this economy on their clients because there is no competitive pressure," says the Director General of the EVUA.
Result: large companies pay still too much their moving expenses and, especially, few of them have managed to sign a European single contract. Most multinationals present in Europe must settle for a national contract because mobile operators are unaware of their applications and do not meet their needs. "However, according to a study of the firm British Ovum on behalf of the EVUA, the cost of international roaming is the"priority"for 71 of large companies but the least respected of mobile operators." Some of our members spend an average 1,500 euros per year for each mobile. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a mobile terminal is equivalent to that of a microcomputer ", still indicates Ed Vonk. Therefore, if some mobile operators prohibited it in the terms and contractual conditions, large users adopt alternative technologies such as telephony online software, voice over Wi-Fi solutions, calling cards, the callback from PBX or international SIM cards.
"With the development of the mobile to the data, including access to the Internet, many are directors Telecom multinationals who consider these new uses such as" a can of worms to not open "(dixit Ed Vonk)." Pay 10 euros per megabit of data received in roaming is with 20-30 euros per month that ADSL subscribers pay for download gigabits of information ", rebelled Ed Vonk." And add: "mobile operators should do operate their 3 G network for their customers, with more broadband and less time lag, rather than the 3 G in a disaster comparable to ISDN digital network integrated services that has never offered the expected potential". The INTUG association, which is on the same wavelength for mobile data transmitted from one country to another, told the woes of a British businessman who received Orange, after you have downloaded his e-mail in France and Germany in September 2005, a roaming Bill reaching 800 pounds sterling (more than 1,100 euros) that he refused to pay! Consult her e-mails abroad can be very expensive - "the additional cost for the operator is almost negligible," stated, - up "100 times more expensive than in its country of origin". It's not surprising in such condition that many companies have banned their staff to use their laptop abroad PCMCIA adapter.
