Thursday, September 4, 2008

Europe Weighs Caps on Roaming Fees for Text Messages


The European Union's telecommunications minister will propose price
controls that would substantially reduce the roaming fees that
individuals are charged to send text messages and limits that could
reduce the cost of using the Internet.

Details of the proposal, obtained Wednesday by The International
Herald Tribune, show that the minister, Viviane Reding, will seek to
cap retail roaming fees for short text messages, or S.M.S., within the
European Union at 11 euro cents, or 16 American cents, a message.

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