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As you might know the European Union resolved to reduce cost for roaming.

Telcos are frightened to lose income - studies expect cuts of 2.4 Billion Euro. It isn’t a big surprise that telcos react in such a way.
Austrian Telcos are thinking about ways to counterbalance this cuts and expect the fall of the subvention of devices, but they agree in not increase the costs for national calls.

I absolutely welcome the reduce for roaming and I’m absolutely convinced that more calls will be made if prices fall and that telcos won’t have to compensate such high loses. Furthermore I often read and heard about the fall of subvention and nothing happened. So don’t panic, market will regulate this for us.

Via futurezone.orf.at (German)

30% of Disney Mobile’s subscribers use GPS location-tracking services once every other day, and about 70% come from the handset.
Disney Mobile is a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), which was founded last year and has special services for families.

It’s up to you if you find this kind of control good or bad. This service offers some good possibilities for parent for younger kids, but I can’t imagine that in Europe such a service would be accepted.

Facts found at GigaOM