Beginning Wednesday, European mobile phone users can cross national borders in Europe and know they won't be slammed with a huge cell phone bill when they return home. Roaming charges for cell phone and texting messages are dropping.
A new single tariff, in the works since 2007, covers all European Union countries and the charges for many consumers for some messages will plunge. Roamed text charges will drop from 28 European cents to 11 cents and roamed mobile calls will also drop, but not as much as text messages. Calls will drop from 46 cents to 43 cents. Sending a
megabyte of data will cost 85 cents -- about one-half the previous data price.
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Source: Information Week
Jul 1, 2009, 05:55 PM
