Posts Tagged eu commission

Mandy back in Westminster

The BBC are reporting (through their email alerts service) that Commissioner Peter Mandelson is being brought back from Europe to become a Minister in the UK reshuffle, due today.  This will be his third time back in Government after being pushed out. Exact text from the BBC: European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is to return [...]

October 3rd, 2008 at 09:57 in Politics (Outside Ireland) | tags: , , , , , , | No Comments

Commission to Reduce Roaming Text Rates to 11c

Great news.  11c per text when roaming. I hope this will apply to domestic text rates too, because I’m currently paying Vodafone 12.7c per text (plus VAT) even when I’m not roaming. Of course, I just use Pat’s MAXroam when I’m actually roaming, which is what the telcos should really be trying to compete with.

September 23rd, 2008 at 09:45 in Technology | tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment