EU Caps Prices On Roaming Texts, Data Downloads
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to cap prices of roamed mobile phone texts and data downloading from July 2009, EU president France said.
"It shows that Europe is first and foremost supposed to be there for its citizens," said Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner who proposed the legislation.
Ministers agreed to widen the scope of existing price caps on mobile phone calls made outside a home state in the 27-nation bloc to include roamed text messages and surfing the Web using a handset.
They agreed a retail price cap of 11 euro cents (14 U.S. cents) per roamed text compared with the current EU average of 29 cents, and there will be a wholesale price cap of 1 euro per megabyte on roamed data.
"It shows that Europe is first and foremost supposed to be there for its citizens," said Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner who proposed the legislation.
Ministers agreed to widen the scope of existing price caps on mobile phone calls made outside a home state in the 27-nation bloc to include roamed text messages and surfing the Web using a handset.
They agreed a retail price cap of 11 euro cents (14 U.S. cents) per roamed text compared with the current EU average of 29 cents, and there will be a wholesale price cap of 1 euro per megabyte on roamed data.
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