Why Is The Roaming Free?

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by Motel75

This was a pretty unusual agreement at the time, and (as someone at Viag Interkom once explained to me) part of it had to do with a lawsuit between Viag and Deutsche Telekom that Viag seemed likely to win; Viag offered this as a solution. In other words, Telekom didn't do this willingly, and it wasn't the result of government effort to open up the market. (I don't remember the exact details of the suit offhand.)

There was somthing similar with Meteor (1800) in Ireland and the two 900 carriers (O2 & Voda). Meteor got some sort of ruling that they could have the right to roam on the 900 MHz carriers.