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EU demands bills sans frontiers

Reding brings an end to roaming shock
Tue Jul 15 2008, 13:50

PAYING £600 TO WATCH EASTENDERS on your holidays could soon be a thing of the past if Viviane 'mobile champion' Reding gets her way.

She has told European mobile telcos to cut their data roaming charges of their own volition, or be forced to do so by the European Commission.

Reding said that, as calls for voluntary reductions had largely been ignored by greedy airtime providers, the EU would step in and force them to unify prices throughout Europe, meaning that data costs in all member states would be capped at the same level.

The Commission also warned that it would, "Seek to put an end to 'bill shocks' that can hit roaming customers using a mobile connection to surf the Internet," threatening that, "New measures could be proposed by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council in early autumn" according to IT Week. µ

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Euro Sceptic

Can't wait for the euro sceptic spin the Sun or the Daily Little Englander put on this..... 

Poor Telco Chairmen Go Without Crystal This Xmas

posted by : Kevin, 16 July 2008 Complain about this comment
hurry up !!


Viv gave um till july 1st 2008 to voluntarily sort this rip-off or she was gonna do it for um, i beleive its now gonna be september, is it ever gonna happen, or is she all 'mouth and trowsers' ????? O_o

posted by : psychochief, 16 July 2008 Complain about this comment
She rocks.

Kudos to her for saving us all some money in the hard times that are coming our way.

posted by : interested_party, 16 July 2008 Complain about this comment
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