Anyone with half a brain knows that mobile phone operators make huge profits whenever you use mobile internet or text message your friends from abroad. The ridiculous fees they charge when you are out of the country are finally being noticed by the European commission. EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has warned operators that they have to cut their tariffs for mobile internet access and text messaging or risk new regulation that would force them to do so. The commissioner has given the companies until 1 July to comply with her request. In 2007 the EU commission forced operators to cut their roaming fees, which apply to you when you call from outside your home country, by 50%.
Good move if you ask me.
Europe’s mobile phone operators are to be warned to cut the cost of texting and internet access while customers are overseas or face regulation.
A text sent while abroad can cost as much as 49 pence ($0.95) and a study found that transferring 1 megabyte (MB) on average costs £4.11.
Mobile phone companies have begun to cut costs, with O2, Vodafone and 3 lowering some tariffs.
Click here for the article at the BBC.
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