European Union To Cap SMS fees - Fees To Drop By 62 Percent
Monday, September 8th, 2008Good news for European mobile phone users: the European Union plans to introduce price controls to limit the costs of both sending short text messages (SMS) and accessing the Internet.
The European Union’s telecommunications minister, Viviane Reding, is proposing to cap retail roaming fees for text messages at 11 euro cents (16 U.S. cents) per message. This amounts to a 62 percent drop from the current average of 29 cents.
The European Union also proposes to halve the wholesale cost of using mobile phones to access the Internet. This would bring the average cost down to one euro per megabyte.
