{"id":19802,"date":"2022-03-02T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=19802"},"modified":"2022-03-07T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:18:14","slug":"telcos-waive-charges-to-allow-free-calls-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/telcos-waive-charges-to-allow-free-calls-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos Waive Charges To Allow Free Calls To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than a dozen telecoms operators on both sides of the Atlantic are either giving free international calls to Ukraine or waiving roaming charges for the beleaguered nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European telecommunications group ETNO announced that an internal survey showed that at least 13 of its members have taken steps to help Ukrainians in the wake of Russia&#8217;s invasion of the nation and that more will follow the same path in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These telecommunications companies include Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telia Company, A1 Telekom Austria Group, Telenor, Proximus, KPN, Vodafone, Vivacom, TIM Telecom Italia, Altice Portugal and Swisscom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these telecommunications companies supplied refugees in neighboring countries with SIM cards, free Wi-Fi in refugee camps, activating the &#8216;SMS donation&#8217; button to help organizations that support refugees, and included Ukrainian channels in IPTV packages for free, ETNO said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/telcos-allow-free-calls-ukraine-waive-roaming-charges-2022-02-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen telecoms operators on both sides of the Atlantic are either giving free international calls to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19823,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}