EC Launches Consultation, Mulls Data Roaming And SMS Price Caps
The European Commission launched a public consultation on Wednesday asking for feedback on its roaming regulations, adopted in June of last year. Reuters reports, that among other issues, the EC is trying to determine whether or not to cap the cost of mobile broadband while abroad, and on SMS prices. EU telecoms boss Viviane Reding angered networks when she set a June deadline for them to reduce the cost of texting abroad, as well as data roaming. It
Go to sites such as 10ptext.co.uk and you can send SMS for 10p only, via a data roaming programme from your mobile phone. It is a mix of mobile webbing and SMS texting which keeps the price at 10p and a fraction of a penny for the 160 characters that are sent as data.