Translation of "Opérateur de formule " (French → English) :

(e) “roaming customer” means a customer of a home provider, irrespective of whether the customer has a pre-paid or post-paid contract, who uses a mobile device to make or to receive voice calls on a visited network by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;

If both requirements ("Euro Tariff" and all-inclusive flat rate) are met by operators all other existing or new international roaming tariff models are not subject to regulation thus leaving operators the freedom to customize their service bundles.

always check for different packages and if you a regular traveller consider switching operator while retaining the same number, check the cost for making a call back home and also for receiving a call, learn how to manually select operators with the lowest tariffs in your destination country, check whether it's possible to switch from pre-paid to post-paid while on holiday, remember to de-activate your voice-mail if you are not going to make use of this service while roaming, consider buying a local SIM card, consider sending SMS messages instead, but beware that these can also cost considerably more to send and receive than your ho ...[+++]me operator would charge, and investigate alternatives to conventional roaming, such as the “gateway services” now operating between some mobile networks which can provide a much cheaper solution for making international calls.

Competition Commissioner Mario Monti commented: "If the progressive liberalisation of postal services is to become a success, incumbent operators enjoying a statutory monopoly must not be allowed to extend their dominance to new services by abusing their unique market position In this case, the use of discounts in the monopoly area by La Poste as a means to attract clients to other services endangers the viability of competition in those areas which are open to alternative operators".

In two of these companies (UPC and NTL), the investment was accompanied by the setting up of a joint Technology Board that made binding recommendations as to the technology decisions of the cable company.

The objections set out in the Commission suit broadly cover the objections against France made by AFOPT (the French association of private telecommunications operators) and AOST (the association of telecommunications service operators) in spring 1998.