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MOBILE TELEPHONY : EP PREPARES TO CAP SMS ROAMING FEES.

Tech Europe, January, 2009

After the price of mobile calls, the European Parliament is ready to cap the price of SMS sent from one EU country to another (roaming) to 11 eurocents per message against 29 eurocents, the current EU average. It also wants to bring down the extortionate cost of internet data, video and music downloads with a mobile phone from abroad.

"We all agree on the merits of the free market, but we have to put an end to the monopolistic attitude of old operators," said Paul Rubig (EPP-ED, Austria), the rapporteur on the first roaming ...

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