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The processor is the brain of a computer - Chris Long, IT journalist
EU goes on mobile cost offensive
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has told national regulators to stick the boot into mobile telecom companies that do not reduce fees they charge to connect to each other's networks.
According to the AP, the European Union wants rates to be based on the real costs an efficient operator incurs for passing on a call from another operator, rather than some figure that has simply been made up at a telco's whim.
Such rates vary from two euro cents per minute in Cyprus to 15 euro cents in Bulgaria. The EU is miffed that some rates work out to about nine times more than what it costs fixed-line operators to pass calls between each other's networks.
EU Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding said the status quo favoured big telcos who have more incoming calls from fixed-line operators than the smaller operations.
She said that, while the EU was tolerant of high mobile termination rates when mobile networks were first being rolled out across Europe, there was no excuse for it any longer these days. µ
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Hope something like this happens here in canada where telcos like Rogers charge ppl many times more that what it costs in other countries !
Some examples :
* 50$ per megabyte for data !
* 8$ to have call display
* 7.5$ acess fee
and more more robing
Well, I suppose you guys are so wealthy you can afford this... Oh, my fault, you're 90% poor and pay up to a handful of rich corporations so that the income per capita looks great in statistics... Now, really, one shouldn't pay up if those are indeed the prices. There should be some alternatives... That's if my joke is a joke and not reality... ;)
I pay 20€ for 1GB if I use my phone in Spain. However, if I cross the border to Portugal or France I have to pay 1€/100Kbytes.... that is 10.000€ per Gigabyte !!!!!!
upsss they must be transporint bit by bit on golden boxes..
This is just stealing and should be prohibited.
Take their licenses out !!!
A small example of cell phone prices in Canada at Rogers (robbers) !
* 25$ for 250 mins factured by the minute
* 8$ for call display
* 7.5$ acess fee
* 0.75$ 911 fee
* 5$ for 250 textos OR 20$ for unlimited
* + 15% TAX
===== 46.25 before tax and 53.18 with tax
all that to have 250 minutes and 250 textos
And by the way, there is no competition in canada !
there are only 2 big companies(rogers/fido GSM and Telus/bell CDMA) who fix prices for evrione and cant do shit about it !
It does little difference to go from one to another since prices are the same !
The EU goes on every offence they can make money on because their a bunch of greedy, unelected, left wing twits
i assume u are being "funny" jonh/england
this is of course one of the sadly few good things that the EU does do, and not one of the bad things, for which should be applauded...