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Gabon and Congo Sign Mobile Roaming MoU

The heads of Gabon’s Regulatory
Agency for Electronic Communications
and Posts (l’Agence de Regulation
des Communications Electroniques et
des Postes, ARCEP) and the Republic
of Congo’s Regulatory Agency for
Electronic Communications and Post
(L’Agence de Regulation des Postes et
des Communications Electroniques,
ARPCE) have signed a MoU to introduce
free mobile roaming between the two
countries no later than 31 December
2019, reports Adiac-congo.com. Under
the agreement subscribers would pay no
charge for incoming calls, up to a limit
of 300 minutes per subscriber a month,
outgoing calls would be billed at the local
network operator’s rates, while the higher
of the two national rates would be applied agreement, the two regulators will both set procedures for the exchange of tariff and
for calls made to both countries. In order to up a national technical committee with the technical information.
ensure successful implementation of the participation of all operators and establish

Vodafone Becomes Latest AT&T IoT Roaming Partner

AT&T continued to push the boundaries makes it easier for businesses to use agreement. “We want to make technology
of its IoT service coverage, building on a low-power IoT technology NB-IoT, with adoption simpler for our customers to help
recent expansion to Canada through a benefits around supply chain optimization them achieve their business outcomes”.
roaming deal with Vodafone Business and multinational access. “More and The companies announced a similar
covering five European countries. more of our enterprise customers are arrangement involving their LTE-M IoT
The agreement around the operators’ launching IoT applications across multiple networks in the US and the Netherlands in
respective NB-IoT networks covers AT&T’s countries,” explained Chris Penrose, February. AT&T followed up on this in June,
domestic market along with Vodafone AT&T SVP of advanced mobility and with a deal involving Orange, Swisscom
operations in Spain, Germany, Italy, the enterprise solutions. “For the IoT to live and KPN. Last month, AT&T secured
UK and Netherlands. In a statement, AT&T up to its promise, it must be global,” he LTE-M roaming deals with the three major
hailed the deal as creating the world’s added. Vodafone Business CEO Vinod operators in Canada, enabling it to offer
largest footprint for the narrowband flavor Kumar highlighted ease of deployment for access throughout North America.
of IoT technology. It added the agreement customers as a key benefit of the roaming

ANCOM Confirms Mobile Termination Rate Reduction

Romania’s National Authority for European rate is established before on their own networks. The rate will apply
Management and Regulation in the end of 2020 under Directive (EU) to national calls and calls from inside the
Communications (ANCOM) has announced 2018/1972. The operators designated with European Economic Area (EEA), as well as
mobile termination rates (MTRs) will be significant market power – Lycamobile, calls initiated outside the EEA where there
reduced to EUR0.0076 (USD0.0085) per Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania, is no international agreement in place
minute with effect from 1 January 2020, RCS&RDS and Telekom Romania Mobile governing termination fees.
down from the current rate of EUR0.0084, Communications – will have the obligation
as a transitional measure until a single not to exceed the maximum regulated rate

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