Submitted: February 11, 2008 - 11:28am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:02pm
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:02pm
EU PRESSURES OPERATORS TO LOWER DATA ROAMING RATES
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Niclas Mika]
After forcing Europe's mobile operators to cut rates for making and receiving phone calls abroad, the European Union's top telecoms regulator has set her sights on prices for downloading and surfing the Web wirelessly. EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has already warned carriers that prices for so-called data roaming have to fall by the summer or else -- a message she will likely repeat at the industry's main trade show, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which starts today.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL0917492020080210
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