EU caps roaming mobile phone fees

**MIG-31** · May 23, 2007, 06:02 PM

Source: BBC News
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Consumers have long complained about phone fees while abroad The cost of making mobile phone calls in Europe is set to fall substantially after lawmakers backed plans to cap so-called "roaming" charges. The amount mobile customers are charged by local phone operators for using their handsets while abroad should now fall by as much as 75%.

More than 150 million people across Europe will be affected by the changes in the pricing regime.

BlueMak · May 23, 2007, 06:06 PM

It's about time. There was no good reason having so high fees in the first place.

GutterPunk · May 23, 2007, 07:46 PM

The US needs that because they will rape you. Getting charged roaming even in state because you picked up an outside tower!

May 23, 2007, 06:02 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,821 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	EU caps roaming mobile phone fees Source: BBC News _____________ Consumers have long complained about phone fees while abroad The cost of making mobile phone calls in Europe is set to fall substantially after lawmakers backed plans to cap so-called "roaming" charges. The amount mobile customers are charged by local phone operators for using their handsets while abroad should now fall by as much as 75%. More than 150 million people across Europe will be affected by the changes in the pricing regime. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

May 23, 2007, 06:06 PM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	It's about time. There was no good reason having so high fees in the first place. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

May 23, 2007, 07:46 PM	#3
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